Guest Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I've had a good weekend on the recycling front. I got rid of some bits on freecycle (despite all the bickering on 2 local groups about the moderators!). I also picked up 3 more old tyres yesterday from a lay by down the road - for growing spuds and other veggies in. Then this morning I went to the "recycling centre" at Barleylands with a load of garden waste - I went there as you can reverse right up to the heap and its easier than lugging everything up the steps at my local one. It just would have been RUDE to leave this lot behind - and the bloke wasn't looking! Yes James does have a strop on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 bless him I can't believe anyone would throw away wood like that well done for rescuing it Karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Great for the log burner or the chooks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Its criminal isn't it? This was the whole pile at the bottom but I could see other usuable wood elsewhere in the pile too. Its not the first time I've had wood from the tip but usually I have to get it as I see it arrive as my regular tip is one where you climb the stairs and throw it in the big container. Several times though I've seen people getting bits out of their cars and asked to have it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 No wonder you have got a bad back! What a waste...well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Aaaah yes I near killed myself lifting it in and out of the car - its still on the trolly as that last one would have been one lift too far. Mum can't help either - Friday she had a hydrocortisone injection in her spine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Our tip will not allow anyone to remove anything from the skips . There are big signs up all over the place and the workers patrol up and down to make sure you don't remove anything. It's such a shame as I'm always seeing things I'd love to take home - LSH is quite relieved about the rule though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 There are no signs up at any of ours and the one bloke on duty was of course sat in his hut and not looking out in case anyone wanted help! As I said usually I ask people who are getting stuff out of their cars. I guess it is dangerous to climb about the tip but this lot was right at the edge of the heap - about 2 feet from where I parked my car! I was once at another tip and I had a tiny bag to go in the hardcore skip, when I walked over there - right on top was a load of HUGE chunks of slate! They are still in the front garden at my investement property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I wish our tip was more lenient . They'd go ballistic if we tried to remove things from people's cars . Well done with all that wood - a great find ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I think most councils have allowed waste disposal sites to issue licences to remove things from the tip. That is why the general public are not allowed to take anything, someone has already paid the council for the privilidge of having first dibs at it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Not fair, is it. A friend tells me about a tip where she lives where they have tables of stuff for sale at silly prices. She's always picking up wonderful stuff for pennies like Kenwood mixers, bookcases, Le Creuset pans etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 My cousin in Milton Keynes has bought stuff from the local tip too. I think ours sells some of the stuff they put near the hut as well. I always want to get things out of skips too but I never get the bottle to knock. Only thing I got that way was my garden roller but someone else spotted it and knocked for me then called me to come and collect it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 What a find Pengy! Our tip is like Kate's - you're not allowed to take anything away, which is quite galling as I'm a veteran skip raider! There is a recycling centre at Farthinghoe, though and you can buy things there. It isn't cheap though. I do like liberating stuff from roadside skips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missuscluck Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 In order to avoid a trip to our skip which is run by Hitler and the SS here I spent a long time making our tree prunings into very small bits to put into our garden waste bin. OH stood in the bin to make it fit I also made some wigwams out of it ready for my sweet peas when its time and saved some for 'twiggy pea sticks' for my peas to climb up. We hate going to our tip, the people who work on it are rude and unhelpfull. My husband took some old broken kids toys once and made the fatal mistake of going in the works van. He was told he could not bring the van on so showed the man in charge the items he wanted to tip which were obvoiusly not work related and he said he still could not bring them on so my husband parked outside the tip and walked them through the gate only to be told he could not do that either. After a few choice words he let him tip the stuff!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Ours also charges for 'contractors' to tip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 We have a choice of three tips....the big one at Stratford has a Hospice Shop where you can take items and also buy what they have to sell - there's loads of stuff there! The nearest one has such a rubbish (sorry) one-way system that you might only have some plastic waste but be stuck behind someone who needs to stop at every skip, so we don't go. The other one (just over the border in Oxfordshire ) also has a policy of not taking things out of the skips but I always go and ask the man in his hut if I see something I want. I usually ask for the large sheets of cardboard for using as a mulch sheet in the garden. I have been known to accost people as they leave their cars!! For some reason.... carl doesn't like me to go to the tip too often...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little chickadee Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 This is my favourite skip find I did get some awful funny looks sat in the middle of town beside it while OH took my mobility scooter to my mum's house so that we could fit it in the car (it's about 6' tall!) My dad used to know the bloke at the local tip and he let him take things away - I don't think my mum appreciated it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 We once went to our tip and there was a water but sitting on top of one of the skips and it obviously had nothing wrong with it so hubby hauled it out and was then acosted by one of the tip workers and given a right telling off. Hubby said if he didn't let him take it a letter to the local paper would be written and he eventually said he would look the other way Hubby also once upset a rather uptight aquaintance of ours who said he had just been to the tip, by saying 'did you get anything good' the man was horrified Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...