[Closed] Best find from a skip.

A Complete set of Sash windows from a house down the road which was being modernised.
I actually asked if hey were replacing the windows and If they were could I have the old ones ?

They said yes, so I actually went down and removed the sashes intact from the windows when they were ready to fit the new ones.

Saved them Skip volume, saved risking them getting damaged 😀

They were float glass, same as My house (Which has a different refractive index to modern glass therefore the light coming through is different) so I then removed all the replacement (Modern) panes of glass that had been put in over the years, and replaced with the rescued Float Glass.

The whole front of the house now has matching "Flawed / wobbly" glass in it and is much the better for it 8)

I`m sure my Ex appreciates it just as much as I did 😕

a 386, with a whopping 4MB of ram and an 80MB HD, in fully working order, might sound sh1t now but in 1992 it was still plenty usable!

you have that the wrong way round cr500dom, float glass is the modern 'perfect' stuff cos it is floated on liquid tin. the wobbly bubbly lovely stuff is cylinder glass as its blow into a cylinder, cut lenghtways and flattened

One of my mates, after a particularly heavy session.

We lifted him out, dusted him off and took him for a curry. He was as good as new!

A full Olympic weight set -20, 10, 5kg plates and bar 🙂

Where do i start.....

Food, booze, tools, UPVC window in "just the right size" for cellar in our old house, pots of new fence paint and my best so far

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Was complete with a load of mixed up stuff on it. Now repainted and in the garage.

I love my job at times

a bag of 600 blue zip ties. that was about 8 years ago and i'm still working my way through them.

You lot live near some pretty generous skips!

I've only ever found mouldy carpets and rubble.

Just the other week i was clearing our house out and threw a crap old subwoofer that had been cluttering the garage up (only cost about £30 new). Last week i went to look for it to try and salvage an aux cable for my stereo and someboady had helped themselves to it. The thing is we live on a quiet cul-de-sac with an average of 80, so god knows who took it! probs the same people who also claimed my knackered old hybrid!

a terry dolan road frame with campag veloce and record on it, no wheels, from the local tip. asked the tip man who said help yourself. cheers, still riding it today 🙂

I found a computer desk in a layby .I have also made a profit from a bike shop who had a spec.hybrid on a heap after they told the owner it wasnt worth repairing .I put a new gear cable in it and got £60 for it ,and £25 for a plain gauge 531 frame they had as well !! Sack trucks from the tip last week along with a barbecue grill and a perfectly good disc hub front wheel for my single speed

Not actually from a skip, but a colleague offered me his Dad's old bike just before he went to the dump. I tried not to sweat and stammer and I said "yes please"

(Colombus Genius tubing, full Campag Record including brakes and seatpost. Saddle and wheels added for the photo)
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Our hockey team goalkeeper, a bit battered and broken.
It was night and he'd hit the mini-skip on the way home, it was unlit on the roadside, and he had been flipped OTB of his Honda 250 Wetdream into the mini-skip.
Handy really as we could just chuck the wet dream into it, one fewer in the world was a good thing, then got am ambleance to take him to A&E.

Mate pulled a Dean ti frame from a skip in London(s****y post code) many years ago.

You lot live near some pretty generous skips!

I've only ever found mouldy carpets and rubble.

its hard to run with a binbag full of out-of-date malteasers in your hand. although they are lighter than ordinary chocalate

Timb, did you keep it? It's bloody lovely that.

When I worked on the council yonks ago, the council ran the local tip & Black & Decker of Spennymoor used to use it. My boss was pretty handy & we'd get the nod off Sid who drove the bulldozer that B&D had been. Off we'd go & collect what we could, me & Ron made up loads of power tools from bits of motors, bodies, chucks, all sorts!

Me & my ex GF found a tall wrought iron garden gate complete with frame in a skip in Altea in Spain but we couldn't get it all in the suitcase.

This Kef active subwoofer.. it needed a new thingybob to get it working, but the bit only cost 4p and my little brother did all the electrical engineering bit

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Damaged bikes, gears, wheels - I dropped off at Bristol Bike Project (charity) many years ago.

All asked permission of the owner.

Best so far ( all from the same skip)
1 orange Alu elite
1 set of pace rc35s (seized)
1 Reynolds 531 road frame and fork
Many, many wheels.

Turned the Alu elite into a Frankenstein bike for my sister, and sold the rest to fund bike bits I would actually use!

200m2 of used hardwood parquet flooring from a bank.
I hired a van, filled it completely.
Used about 20m2 myself.
Sold the rest of it on eBay for £350.
Result.

Not a great find and not technically a skip but I went to ikea a while ago to get a floor standing lamp for the flat. Couldn't really find one I liked, and the closest was about £100. I was going to get it but decided to check out what else I could find in town first and come back tomorrow if nothing else.

Went home and took the bins down to the bin store that evening, and sat in there was a floor standing lamp almost if not identical to the one in ikea. Win! It does make me feel a little bit pikey whenever I look at it though.

Stihl string trimmer left out on trash night in my neighborhood. Needed an $8 fuel line assembly, sell for $200+ new!

I actually got a business and a living from a skip - the bike shop I worked in as a student was closing down, and the owner chucked all the trade catalogues and price lists in the bin ready to set fire to them - I took a lot, phoned the companies up and pretended to be a proper company, and that was how I started my own business 😉

Got my pillar drill and the motor for my lathe, not quite from the skip as I intercepted them on the way... Got some funny looks walking into the office that day 😆

I have a Grass polygraph 7d, (lie detecter) i rescued from a certain place that shall remain undisclosed, kinda similar to this one below but with more fancy machined knobs and extra boards attachede,
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It's currently sitting in my back garden under poly wrap and when i get round to it i'm gonna remove the top half with all the cool knobs and buttons and either make a glass topped table out of it or just hang it on the wall and plug it in so it lights up, obviously i want it to light up once i've attached the electrodes to a mate beforehand so those 3 yrs i wasted at uni studying electronics will not have been in vain after all.

edit : not really relevant to a skip but 20 years ago i found a 25kg bale of weed washed up on the shoreline a few weeks after a major weed bust on a yacht in the irish sea .....that was a ****ing good summer for us all at that time, it still gets talked about to this day, needless to say i have hunted the shoreline ever since 😀 .

We used to pay the odd visit to what was the GT and Rockshox distribution place in Bristol as yoofs (Madison maybe?). I never got anything more than half a pair of gloves and scuffed grips. A mate managed a pair of SIDS back when we all rode RST 381s, lucky get.