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Glenn F.

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Just when I thought I'd cured myself of trash picking, I had to stop again. My wife and I are both elementary school teachers. And the other day after dropping her off at work I found the highest quality office chair I have ever seen. It is a relatively low profile chair with all the nice features/adjustments. The first time I sat in it I was sure it was well worth the $80 it cost me to have it reupholstered. Just an unbelievably heavy/comfortable chair. Now, back to being a recovering dumpster diver!

What's the best thing you've found lately?


Glenn F.
 
(quoted from post at 15:04:20 12/22/14) Just when I thought I'd cured myself of trash picking, I had to stop again. My wife and I are both elementary school teachers. And the other day after dropping her off at work I found the highest quality office chair I have ever seen. It is a relatively low profile chair with all the nice features/adjustments. The first time I sat in it I was sure it was well worth the $80 it cost me to have it reupholstered. Just an unbelievably heavy/comfortable chair. Now, back to being a recovering dumpster diver!

What's the best thing you've found lately?


Glenn F.
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perfectly good $500 power washer with only a clogged nozzle! :roll:
 
An old lawnboy push mower than happened to have the starter pulley I needed for mine. I love to have that light old (pre-compliance) push mower for beside the sheds and stuff. It sat for almost two years because that part was discontinued and I just never got around to getting one off eBay.
 
(quoted from post at 12:04:20 12/22/14) Just when I thought I'd cured myself of trash picking, Just an unbelievably heavy/comfortable chair. Now, back to being a recovering dumpster diver!

What's the best thing you've found lately?

Glenn F.
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Great find. Its a good thing I don't live near or have access to the dump or I'd have even more junk than I already do. There have been some amazing finds from what I hear. The chair I am sitting in, an old adjustable tilt office chair, is the most comfortable one I have. And it was thrown out by somebody. Just needed a little welding on the base.
 
Not lately. Dad and I would take trash to the dump around noon with our trash. Dad loved to search for scrap metal. sometimes we would come home with a pickup full. That stopped when the county workers found out we sere cutting on their take. When I worked nights I would go by the markets and go through the dupmsters and get food for a couple pigs I was raising. Then go behind the donut store. They would have all the old pastries in a plastic bag. I would have a donut on the way home. Pigs liked them also. Stan
 
oldest boy found a Craftsman 8 drawer tool chest with about a hundred sockets and drives in it at dump. County guy said if you want it, take it, so he did.
 
laptop computers, tv's tools, bolts, hats, 12 volt lawn sprayer, several flashlights. I have worked for solid waste haulers the last 6 years so you never know what you will find. The best haul was a 2 cu. yd.dumpster that was loaded with a lot of brand new bolts even had 4 old carbs that I haven't checked to see what they fit yet.
 
Back in the late 80's, I drove a roll off garbage truck hauling to the landfill. One time, a beer truck came rolling in with a load of out dated beer, there was an inspector of some sort following in a car to make sure it got buried. Landfills are hot, dusty and smell bad in the summer, so the inspector sat in his car with the air on and the windows up. The dozer operators made a large hole and the truck backed in and the driver and his helper unloaded it and left. The inspector sat in his car and watched as the dozer operators pushed a big pile of dirt in front of the dumped beer. Looked good from the car, so the inspector left. As soon as he was gone, the operator went and got a pickup and loaded it up with the free beer. They had beer for quite a while after that. Once I was there and a bakery truck came out with a load of sealed, packaged outdated Little Debbie cookies and dumped them. Those (landfill cookies) were mighty tasty! Target dumpsters were everyones favorite. Lots of new stuff thrown away. One driver kept digging until he came up with a whole set of dishes for his wife. Chris
 
In the mid 70s my step-father was the foreman at a county dump and on Saturdays I had exclusive picking rights. I carpeted much of my Mother's 900 sq. ft. house removed from a high $ house. Another time a roll off from a soda canning place dumped many, many cases of Tab soda that was kicked off the line for being too full or not full enough. Brought home about 20 cases. Learned to like Tab that year LOL One time he brought home a dismantled Howdy Dodey watch.
 
A few years ago while looking in dumpsters for boxes I saw an old cigar box. Since it looked really old I got it out and when I opened it had the paper work and a bunch of pins and medals of a WWI vet. Why would anyone throw something like that out. This Sunday, again looking for boxes in a dumpster behind a convenience store, I pulled out 48 bottles and cans of assorted beer. I didn't get it all.
 
When our President was campaigning for his first
term,they had a campaign office open in my small
hometown. I stopped at the convenience store next
door after work the day the campaign office was
closed. The clerk in the convenience store was
dragging items out of the dumpster out back. She
said that the campaign office had closed and
thrown everything in the dumpster so I thought I
should take a look. I found a brand new dorm size
frig. that still had some of the packing material
in it. I brought the frig home to my shop and
still use it today. Have cold drinks on hand
24/7.What a sad waste!!
 
they started cleaning up the barnlot at the farm I rent had on the scrap load drag harrow ,,interlokinn tringle rod steel ,, hookt onto it and took it to the round bale stak
 
I found a all most new 4 stroke string trimmer. Took it home and poured the gas out. It was mixed with 2 stroke oil. Put clean gas in and it smoked for awhile but runs good. That was 2 summers ago. I work out of a mini warehouse, so when people get tired of paying rent they throw all kinda goodies away(or try to!!).
 
A beauty supply store changed all of their store shelving, went from beige to black. I hauled a 10ft flat bed truck full back home.
 
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