One of the periodic irritant$ of building houses is that folks, from
neighbors to landscape crews, use your dumpster/construction trash boxes as
their personal dump ... but sometimes it pays off:

Last evening someone chunked, into one of my 4 x 8 OSB trash bins, a
Craftsman, 1/3 HP, 3400 rpm, dual wheel bench grinder, in _perfect working
order_ and with two new grinding wheels. Said tool from the era when
Craftsman tools were worth the price, .

It also pays, sometimes in more ways than you anticipate, to get yerass out
of bed and be the first one checking out the sites each morning ....

Some T9, a little WD40, and that sucker was screwed to my workbench by
lunch.

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In article ,
"Swingman" wrote:

One of the periodic irritant$ of building houses is that folks, from
neighbors to landscape crews, use your dumpster/construction trash boxes as
their personal dump ... but sometimes it pays off:

Last evening someone chunked, into one of my 4 x 8 OSB trash bins, a
Craftsman, 1/3 HP, 3400 rpm, dual wheel bench grinder, in _perfect working
order_ and with two new grinding wheels. Said tool from the era when
Craftsman tools were worth the price, .

It also pays, sometimes in more ways than you anticipate, to get yerass out
of bed and be the first one checking out the sites each morning ....

Some T9, a little WD40, and that sucker was screwed to my workbench by
lunch.

That's a drive-by gloat. Henceforth thou sucketh...in all due respect
and envy.. of course.

r

Huh.

As a kid in high school, I worked in a lumber yard/hardware store. We
used to find stuff in the dumpsters sometimes: good lumber, tools that
looked almost brand new, &tc.

Then they figured out that one of the yard men was stealing said
items. He'd stash them in the dumpster and go back at night to
recover them.

I wonder if anybody at the jobsite or nearby sites is missing a bench
grinder?

-Zz


On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:46:54 -0500, "Swingman" wrote:

One of the periodic irritant$ of building houses is that folks, from
neighbors to landscape crews, use your dumpster/construction trash boxes as
their personal dump ... but sometimes it pays off:

Last evening someone chunked, into one of my 4 x 8 OSB trash bins, a
Craftsman, 1/3 HP, 3400 rpm, dual wheel bench grinder, in _perfect working
order_ and with two new grinding wheels. Said tool from the era when
Craftsman tools were worth the price, .

It also pays, sometimes in more ways than you anticipate, to get yerass out
of bed and be the first one checking out the sites each morning ....

Some T9, a little WD40, and that sucker was screwed to my workbench by
lunch.

In article ,
Zz Yzx wrote:

Then they figured out that one of the yard men was stealing said
items. He'd stash them in the dumpster and go back at night to
recover them.

...rewind to 1975, Ontario Hydro Generating Station..

I was catching a little air one evening when I noticed a few tools on the ground
next to a fence. I wondered what they were doing there.
As I am standing there, a hand reaches from under the fence-boards and feels
around for those tools.... never been able to resist an opportunity for some
comedic effect, I grabbed it and pulled real hard and bent the arm upwards.
On the other side of the fence, I heard moaning.
No idea who it was... but I had his Casio watch for years.. and once in a while
I'd look at the watch..... and wondered if he **** himself.

r

"Robatoy" wrote in message

I was catching a little air one evening when I noticed a few tools on the
ground
next to a fence. I wondered what they were doing there.
As I am standing there, a hand reaches from under the fence-boards and
feels
around for those tools.... never been able to resist an opportunity for
some
comedic effect, I grabbed it and pulled real hard and bent the arm
upwards.
On the other side of the fence, I heard moaning.
No idea who it was... but I had his Casio watch for years.. and once in a
while
I'd look at the watch..... and wondered if he **** himself.

Hehe ... Many years ago, when bumming around Australia as a feisty young
lad, a burglar backed out of the window of my girlfriend-at-the-time's
apartment in Cairns just as we were coming in from a late night at the pub,
right into my arms.

... I'd bet that a day hasn't gone by since that he's not prayed that his
luck in life has changed.

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"Zz Yzx" wrote in message

I wonder if anybody at the jobsite or nearby sites is missing a bench
grinder?

Nahh, it was pretty obvious from the rest of the trash with it that it was a
freeloader availing him/herself of the dumpster. Most likely someone (one of
the local yuppie puppies?) cleaning out an older person/parent's garage and
didn't have a clue what it was.

It is old, the safety glass shields were bent, and the whole unit was
dirty/grimy from years of non-use to the extent that I would have bet the
price of a new one that the motor was fried before plugging it in.

But it cleaned up real nice, the metal parts straightened up with no ill
effects, and the bearings are in such good shape that it spins for at least
a minute after powering it off.

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Last update: 5/6/06

Zz Yzx wrote:
Huh.

As a kid in high school, I worked in a lumber yard/hardware store. We
used to find stuff in the dumpsters sometimes: good lumber, tools that
looked almost brand new, &tc.

Then they figured out that one of the yard men was stealing said
items. He'd stash them in the dumpster and go back at night to
recover them.


Ranks right up there with the story about a wheelbarrow full of straw
leaving the plant every night.

Lew

Robatoy wrote:

In article ,
"Swingman" wrote:

Last evening someone chunked, into one of my 4 x 8 OSB trash bins, a
Craftsman, 1/3 HP, 3400 rpm, dual wheel bench grinder, in _perfect
working order_ and with two new grinding wheels. Said tool from the
era when Craftsman tools were worth the price, .


That's a drive-by gloat. Henceforth thou sucketh...in all due respect
and envy.. of course.


Well, they didn't throw it away, but I got a brand new OptiVisor with
lenses, still in the original packing, for $2 at an estate sale last
Friday :-).

--
It's turtles, all the way down

In article ,
"Swingman" wrote:

Hehe ... Many years ago, when bumming around Australia as a feisty young
lad, a burglar backed out of the window of my girlfriend-at-the-time's
apartment in Cairns just as we were coming in from a late night at the pub,
right into my arms.

... I'd bet that a day hasn't gone by since that he's not prayed that his
luck in life has changed.

LOL...lemme guess.... when you 'helped' him down from the window, you
wagged your finger at him and said: "That wasn't a nice thing you did,
mister.." and left it at that?

*G*

Lew Hodgett wrote:

Ranks right up there with the story about a wheelbarrow full of straw
leaving the plant every night.

A story I first heard, I believe, on the Jack Benny show back in the
'50s.

"toolmiser" wrote in message
...

Pat Wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:

Ranks right up there with the story about a wheelbarrow full of straw
leaving the plant every night.

A story I first heard, I believe, on the Jack Benny show back in the
'50s.
Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.


Sounds like the one about the guy in the bike factory taking home bags of
sand every night. Ring a bell now?

In article ,
toolmiser wrote:

Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.

OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

--
"Keep your ass behind you."

Hey swingman, do you still have my watch? It has sentimental value. My
Mama stole it for me.

Sorry, I meant Robotoy.

"Australopithecus scobis" wrote in message
...
In article ,
toolmiser wrote:

Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.

OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

--
"Keep your ass behind you."


HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

In article ,
Australopithecus scobis wrote:
In article ,
toolmiser wrote:

Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.

OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

--
"Keep your ass behind you."

When I first heard it about 25 years ago it was hand trucks.

--

Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland

Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good memory.

In article ,
() wrote:

In article ,
Australopithecus scobis wrote:
In article ,
toolmiser wrote:

Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.

OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

--
"Keep your ass behind you."

When I first heard it about 25 years ago it was hand trucks.

Kind of hard to load a hand truck up with sawdust.

Australopithecus scobis wrote:
In article ,
toolmiser wrote:


Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.


OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

Remember the Johnny Cash song about the guy who works at the Cadillac
plant? He systematically steals Cadillac parts when he can. Finally
after many years he has completed the assembly of a '59, '60, '61, '62,
.... Cadillac.

yeehaw and kudos to Johnny C.,
jo4hn

p.s. Folsom Prison Blues was always my favorite.

jo4hn,
That is a very amusing song. You almost wish it a video to go along
with the lyrics.

Marc

By Sat, 27 May 2006 23:03:05 -0400, Roy Smith
decided to post " Amazing what folks throw away" to
rec.woodworking:

In article ,
() wrote:

In article ,
Australopithecus scobis wrote:
In article ,
toolmiser wrote:

Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.

OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

--
"Keep your ass behind you."

When I first heard it about 25 years ago it was hand trucks.

Kind of hard to load a hand truck up with sawdust.

Roy, that's kind of pithy. Kinda.

/..

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insert something clever here