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ahhh … I feel better
You might, but my eyes hurt now.
Smaller/shorter the trailer the harder it is to reverse. The tiny ones are awful when empty as you can't see the trailer in any of the mirrors until it's gone very wrong 😀
Shorter as in distance from towball to trailer wheels.
The only feeling I have when I go to the tip is shame that I am awful at reversing my tiny trailer!
Not just me then! Thankfully the depot that takes trailers has bays that you drive forward into the forward to leave but before that change was made it was always easier to drive in forwards, empty it the unhook to reverse out! Even saw one lady with a flag on the back of hers, mounted centrally it was so much easier for her to reverse with it.
The islabike post(/people damaging things so they can't be reused) shocked me! I thought bad behaviours were generally down to greed/laze/fear but as others have said, going out of your way to damage things so that others can't benefit is straight up malicious!
But that bike, maybe the pictures don't show it clearly enough but that looks like a failure rather than an intentional cut? there doesn't look to be an obvious plane on either of the tubes. Perhaps too many older siblings/parents playing on it? Or perhaps as others have said maybe there was a defect and its to stop others using it.
Bury Council are really against people taking stuff out once it's been tipped: their reason is liability, risk of someone taking them to court with a PI from a skipped object (and the tip isn't council owned, it's subcontracted so that makes the scenario messy). Reasonable argument.
Although only last week I noticed a furniture donation lockup which also had a bike (BSO) in it. Will try and put as much as I can get away with in there next time.
Purposefully smashing items to prevent reuse is mean and spiteful.
ahhh … I feel better
I'm glad you do.
What's with the stupid text? Hard to read and utterly pointless.
I was amazed when I moved to Bristol that people leave stuff outside houses for taking, really good often. Locally we've had kitchen electricals, kids clothes, hifi, bikes, micro-scooters, furniture, plants.... walking round on a sunny evening can be like a jumble sale!
Collect those from my estate too, weigh them in at the recyclers though as they’re high grade metal. Usually leave with £20-30 extra in my pocket.
Out of interest, how many do you need to get that kind of money? I collected a few hundred locally but gave them to an art project.
Never counted them but it's a lot. Thankfully I can easily pick up 100 or so in an evening if I felt like it! Probably around the 1000-1500 mark but then I wait for prices to be high then take them in. 2 boxes full in the boot of the car is usually around the £25 mark.
What’s with the stupid text? Hard to read and utterly pointless
Not when you are trying to score highly for and unhinged internet rant.
I was quite proud of that, thought I'd get at least an 8/10 🙁
But maybe you lot are the old goats 🙂