I’m constantly amazed by what people throw away. In the last month I’ve had 3 x Tiffany style lamps (£5), a pair of 1973 Linden Wharfedale speakers (£5), a Chimenera (free) and a Ryobi petrol strimmer that only needed the fuel filter cleaned out (free).
Anyone else had a good foraging result.

there is a difference between scavanging for free direct from bins (which at HWRC is very hard these days) and buying from a dedicated re-use/resale areas are HWRC….

My local skip never has anything. I keep checking for a old bikes but so far nothing. Is there a best time/day to go?

Could really do with a strimmer too!

It’s all still pretty cheap though, and I just wait until their backs are turned or have a quiet word and chuck them a fiver. It’s becoming an obsession, maybe I’m just a tramp.

The local one to us won’t let you take anything away. WTF is that all about??

YES! Wicker chair – smelt of cat pee but was OK after a good scrub; bevelled mirror x2; bike racks x 2. Also hauled 2 solid pine doors with glass panels out of a skip (with owner’s permission). Sat pm/Sun midday seems to be a good time round here…

The local one to us won’t let you take anything away.

Councils tend sell the rights to ‘plunder’ now so won;t let everyone pick over the stuff.

There’s a YMCA shop at my local one that gets the good stuff to sell on.

They won’t let me in without a license because I drive a pickup, piss take I tell thee

Anything I think is reusable is offered on freegle before being consigned to the dump.

I spoke to someone who manages one of these sites about this and he said the one he is at wont let people take stuff away in case they injure themselves on say a faulty electronic item etc.

The worlds gone mad eh

Mate got the old front desk out of the skip when they where re-doing the post office.

Paid the lads £20 to take it to the local antiques place where they strip the paint off it… and he was offered £10k for it..

Turns out it was made of solid oak.. 8)

I get a fair bit of my firewood from the tip, but (driving a LR) generally have to have the commercial vehicle vs domestic vehicle conversation …

I’ve had a lovely old grundig radiogram in a solid oak case that made a nice sideboard.. and only last week I picked up a pair of pretty much brand spanking new smooth straight and true wheels to replace the shonky old wobbly crunchy things on the pub bike.. for £3.. ace Our bookcase was from the tip too.. a solid wood relic from an ancient library

I found the windows and slates for this in an Edinburgh New Town skip

I found the glass for this flytipped on a verge.

Ask is the best option, most of the workers dont mind as long as you ask and they can turn a blind eye. I have had a decent bmx bike for my kids, a old Raleigh road bike which is still going strong 5 years latter . The maddest thing you see is working CRT tv’s being dumped 3 high!

Btw mcmoonter that looks amazing!