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Had a heavy trailer of rubble to get rid of. From shedmageddon
The tip said no to trailers or rubble just now - and I needed rid.
Advert on Facebook market place.
An hour later rubble was rattling through a chipper at the quarry to be used as back fill.
1200 l singleskin Oil tank - it's in good nick but of unknown age and doesn't fit the new layout. - typically Id have to pay to get rid of it as contaminated waste.
Also stuck it on marketplace ..... I literally have folk fighting over it for site diesel storage for machines.
Any old any old any old iron.
Over to you.
Over a thousand paperbacks, left on trains and in pubs.
I should have kept 'Jaws'.
Box full of half empty/full (Depends on your outlook on life) bottles of aftershave I’d been given as “presents”.
Sold on eBay for over £70. Some of them must have been 15 years old and probably hadn’t aged very well.
Many years ago I found a left hand motorcycle glove, Ladies XXL, in my front garden during winter.
Left it on the wall for 2 weeks in case the owner came looking for it, in the end I dried it out and sold it on Ebay for £15 to some guy in Germany. 🙂
I worked in Starbucks in London. Ever so often one of us would put on a huge coffee urn and try and give it away to Londoners, walking out of a tube station.
It takes ages to give 5 liters of coffee away in paper espresso cups!
trail_rat, why not just dump it in a layby on a quite backroad like everyone else seems to do at the moment?
Without doubt, my cherry.
In fairness, it took a lot of patience on my part.
My little brother left 2 old fibreglass kayaks in my shed. I mean really old. 1970's vintage, translucent and about 15 foot long! So after being in the way for about 25 years I stuck a "free to collector" ad on FB Marketplace. I must of had 100 enquirers. Lad turned up next morning with a saloon car with no roof rack. We literally plonked the 2 kayaks on his roof and wrapped them with string through the 4 open windows! And off they went to the South Wales Valleys, probably to sit in a front garden for another 25 years 🙂
13 six foot long conifer trunks. Put them on eBay for 1p collection only. Bloke picked them up in a van, which was my ultimate aim as they wouldn't fit in the mk2 Punto we had at the time. Bloke insisted on giving me the 1p too!
trail_rat, why not just dump it in a layby on a quite backroad like everyone else seems to do at the moment?
Cause I live on those back roads haha. Might as well just dump it in my garden, maybe should have dumped it at your road end mat. I'll just push the trailer round 🙂 Expect a rise in that soon...... The transits are down the beach.
I nipped up to farming country to get rid of the rubble..as it was already loaded. An old landy with an empty ifor cruising through farming country doesn't half get you watched...... #thehillshaveeyes
Psa: if anyone wants a cockring with 15mins left give or take on battery then pm me
Then again, maybe I should ebay it on germany site
maybe should have dumped it at your road end mat.
haha well you wouldn't be the first, there's little mounds of rubbish springing up anywhere there's somewhere you can pull a car in!
Gave away some willow cuttings recently. Had to remove a tree, so cut it into pieces and offered it on the local gardening group. A couple of people took away bits, hopefully it will be growing somewhere else.
And have now been digging out a septic tank soakaway, found loads of large rocks. Will offer those shortly. Though will be hard work to carry them from the bottom of the garden, if anyone wants to take them away.
We have a bus stop at the bottom of our drive on a reasonably busy road. Mrs BigJohn has an allotment and she grows tons of fruit & veg. When we have a glut of artichokes, broad beans, runner beans, courgettes...the list goes on...she puts a box on the wall with the surplus and a supply of paper bags.
It's not so much a food bank, more a vegetable ATM.
We did have a load of slabs we wanted rid of that stayed for days. Until we put a £1 each sign on them. As soon as our backs were turned they disappeared.
Land Rover ramps - gave them away to a chap on here.
I once had to build a sort of carnival float - a advertising stunt for an airline with a miniature version of Paris on the back - a pavement cafe between a 4m Eiffel Tower, a 3m tall Arc de Triomphe, - all turfed and the sides of the truck festooned with bunches of roses and strings of garlic.
I'd hired the truck from Ryder and the end of the event it went back to their depot and the plan was for me to go the next day and de-rig it.
Turned up the next morning and the truck was gone. It required some prep work for its next hire - lashing points welded on underneath so it had been taken to a truck mechanics on Possil. I had to go and find it and strip everything down while folk worked underneath me.
The idea had been to give the flowers and garlic away to passing couples during the event. Unsurprisingly there was a high uptake for the flowers but we were left with about 75 kilos of garlic.
That night at the end of the shift all the mechanics headed back into Possil with ropes of garlic over their shoulders and two were shuffling along a replica of the Arc de Tromphe to go in someones garden.
Who wouldn't want to finish every ride going past the Eiffel Tower or Arc de Triomphe?
Who wouldn’t want to finish every ride going past the Eiffel Tower or Arc de Triomphe?
You'd have to ride round the block 8 times after every outing
My advice is pretty strange at times.
Dug up half of a garden's worth of "rockery" (misshapen lumps of concrete), piled it on the drive. Stuck it on eBay for 1p or thereabouts, ended up selling for 20 quid collected. We were away the weekend he collected, he called while he was there to say he'd spotted the other half of the garden still full of lumps, and could he have that too? So we got back from a weekend away to find he'd finished the job of clearing the garden for us 👍.
A few years back my bath burst, with hilarious consequences. I hired a skip and got a couple of plumbery types in to replace the bathroom suite. They removed the toilet and skipped it, got the bath out and took it down to discover that the throne had been taken.
To this day I cannot quite fathom why anyone would want to steal from a skip a 1970s vintage bronchitis-yellow used crapper. Must've been inside of ten minutes too.
I've also had a bog taken. We were renovating an old Victorian terrace house that was occupied by an old Edwardian lady. On a back street with just a moderate amount of traffic. We soon found that nearly everything we ripped out ready for taking to the tip would disappear within hours of us leaving it at the front.
I’ve also had a bog taken. We were renovating an old Victorian terrace house that was occupied by an old Edwardian lady. On a back street with just a moderate amount of traffic. We soon found that nearly everything we ripped out ready for taking to the tip would disappear within hours of us leaving it at the front.
When I lived in Brum there was a one monthly 'Bulk Refuse Day' where the council would take away anything that would be too big for the bin.
The night before the collection day all sorts of baths, bogs, sofas, dressers etc would go out into the street, but by the morning when the bin lorry came round they'd pretty much are disappeared again. Then a few months later you'd see the same stuff reappear a few doors away from the last time, then vanish again.
The neighbourhood seemed to have an itinerant population of not-as-nice-as-it-first-looked uncomfortable sofas and not-quite-deep-enough-to-shut-the-door-when-you-hang-clothes-in-it wardrobes drifting from house to house.
🙂
good to know the "hardcore - free to collector" offers actually get taken up. I've got a shed base to get rid of.
The neighbourhood seemed to have an itinerant population of not-as-nice-as-it-first-looked uncomfortable sofas and not-quite-deep-enough-to-shut-the-door-when-you-hang-clothes-in-it wardrobes drifting from house to house.
I lived in that neighbourhood in Glasgow, got a fair bit of street furniture and most of it was pretty good*.
*by broke student standards
“hardcore – free to collector”
Hedge Porn?
A whole lot of ernie ball power slinky A strings- the one you never break. I had them spare because they're the ones you never break, nobody else wanted them because they're the ones you never break. Except for this one dude, who was absolutely ecstatic. No idea why, maybe he was planning some insane alternative tuning, or building a scale byplane, or maybe it's just the right size for a garotte.
Oh yeah, after my brother rented his flat out for a year and returned to find it basically swimming in cat piss, every item of furniture went in the bin. When we were piling it up outside, you could genuinely smell it all from the end of the street, despite this being Leith, not the most fragrant place to start with. And yet still people were taking stuff away, even the couch which was still properly wet.
A 60ft long garden concrete path
Missus wanted it gone from her garden and I noticed that a bloke 5 houses down had a large flatbed trailer, so being ambitious I thought I’d try a borrow as I had a towbar, amazingly he worked on a farm who were building and were after hardcore so I moved the trailer up, smashed the path to bits and loaded it Up and he took it to work with him the next day
I used to know the bloke who owned a department store in Kent. They had a skip behind the store that they only ever used for used mattresses that they'd taken away when delivering new ones. It was a magic skip - never needed emptying!
Been using Freegle to get rid of stuff - amazing just what disappears. I have a paid of old speakers which are next to go (JPW P1) and one of them is blown. Far easier than shifting to the tip.
We were out for a walk recently round my town and come across a guy who wanted to get rid of some paving slabs. Just what I needed, asked if I could take some and how much - he just wanted them shifted. Got home and drove down to pick them up, now park of the path on the front lawn.