[Closed] Things I have found in skips.

10 yrs ago: £1500 of indoor newly delivered plants/trees dumped in a skip beside my old office because the client no longer wanted them. Commandeered a third of them in my car and got the missus to drive up in hers to grab another third.

On a biking note, my older brother and I found an old bike in a local tip. I was about 7 and he was a few years older - he was also very handy with car/bike mechanics. So he stripped it down, did it back up, sprayed it brown(!), replaced a couple of bits and that was it - my second bike for about £5. My first one was made by a friend's grand-dad from old parts too.

Rusty, that sounds very suspicious to me, just picture the scene.

A very careful rugby playing bikepacker was lured into the skip with a reindeer glove puppet, then punched and kicked to to death.

You should wipe your prints off and throw the stuff back in the skip !

a (only slightly) dented Euphonium

yunki - Member
a (only slightly) dented Euphonium

A full set of boxwood marples chisels is my best find must be well over 100 years old and are bugger to sharpen due to the high carbon content in the blade

A guitar case with a harmonica in it.

Me.

🙂
Can't find the other boxing glove. 😐

However, I have found three left handed leather work gloves, a cheap subwoofer, 2 more pairs of boots, a golf bag and a bag for crown green bowls.

And one sock embroidered with strawberries.

Updates later - not reached the bottom yet.

Some Spirit absolute 2 speakers.

A one handed boxer?

Is this your skip that people have randomly dumped stuff in or a ski down the road your climbing about in ?

My entire workshop is constructed using materials found isn skps. Workbench, shelves, storage units the lot. Living in a reasonably affluent area means plenty of quality stuff to be had on a regular basis. Got a lovely bi of slid oak block worktop top to make something useful out of soon. 🙂

themightymowgli - Member

A one handed boxer?

Or a particularly unimaginative self abuser.
Mind you, if combined with the glove puppet, all bets are off. 🙂

jim25 - Member
Is this your skip that people have randomly dumped stuff in

Yep.
Bit gutted - partner has just informed me that some gentlemen in a flatbed Transit called yesterday afternoon and asked if they could have a rummage.
Must be where all the right handed gloves went.

Just found a cat bed too.

Hired a skip when I was doing casual work as a student clearing up the local church yard.

Came back from lunch to find it full of fridge freezers.

We had a skip delivered yesterday and have already had someone asking if there's any scrap metal in it. It's now full so no chance of other peoples' randomness being added to our random bits of wood, carpet and ex-tree.

A Van der Graaf generator - needs a new belt and a pollish but should work fine 🙂

Nice one except need hair! 🙂

Fireworks! We had a great display with that lot.

Campag super record rear mech. Still got it and works fine. It was some 25 years ago as well so why it was in the skip I will never know.

ok, not actually a skip, but here's Rachy in a bin:

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Ha! I have a photo like that too.
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That's a bloody great haul of stuff Rusty, I wonder if I'd have the same amount of luck if I just parked my van on the road overnight with the back doors open?!

skips seem to have a weird effect on people. Half the world wants to rummage in it (maybe understandably given the finds above), the other half tries to fill it with their own stuff (a skip on my street had a sign saying "please don't put bags of dog crap in here")

1988 Brooks B17 - still in use.

The back wheel on my drop bar MTB appeared on a bit of urban singletrack.

I used to retrieve computers from the dump and stick linux on them.

A very large set of Mission Electronic speakers.

A reindeer glove puppet.

Cool

Someone nicked all my wife's old grundies out of our skip recently.
Some people are bizarre.

Both our TV's came off the side of the road when everyone upgraded to big flat screens. They aren't small and would have been a pretty penny when new. Both work fine.

A (good) kayak and Kona kids bike from tip.
An argument but I was not allowed the Thule roof bars and multiple cycle racks on them...
I found a bike last week, dumped at local garages...

Dad picked up an old Quad amp/power amp setup from a skip.

Someone nicked all my wife's old grundies out of our skip recently.

My god - how many / how big are they? You need a skip to get rid of them?

My god - how many / how big are they? You need a skip to get rid of them?

Must be from Wales.

Numerous LCD/plasma tvs taken home repaired for peanuts and sold for huge profit, fender stratocaster guitar new in case with amp sold on eBay , a few Xbox s and ps3's.
I've made a pretty penny from the amount of people that have more cash than sense and dispose of good gear !!

Dad picked up an old Quad amp/power amp setup from a skip.

Quite possiby from a renovation job where the original occupant had died. Or when a couple split up; a friend obtained a lovely Cannondale road bike in near-mint condition from a skip; he knocked and asked if he could have it, and the very vengeful wife told hm he was welcome to take hs pick from a whole range of expensive bike parts, tools and other bits. Turns out she'd 'won' the house in the settlement, so that legally included any contents not recovered in reasonable time by the husband. My friend reckoned she must have given away tens of thousands of pounds worth of gear. 😯

AV room 'upgrade' where he works, wasn't modern and shiny so got skipped for some Bose, think the contractor thought it was beige rubbish.

A friend got a lot of his windsurf gear for £5 off a neighbour that had just found out her husband was cheating on her.

Not half as glamorous but as a student was more useful. Oh and not a skip.

Nearly ten years ago a flatmate I was living with came rushing home and said the Thresher near to us had ditched loads of chocolate, crisps and drink into their big red Biffa style bin. It was in a back alley we passed to get in and out our back door. Off we went.

we had 18 large packets of Walkers Sensations, 5 bottles of sparkling water, 10 medium boxs of cadbury chocolates and loads of individual chocolate bars, all just out of date but perfectly edible.

Never been lucky enough to find anything in a skip that may be worth anything though.

Rusty you need an eBay account, tell Mrs rusty to haul in anything of value, you'd be surprised what sells

Our next door neighbour is moving shortly (hooray) and has a skip in his driveway at the moment. We've never got on as he's a miserable old ****er who bangs on the wall at the slightest sound and once left his vacuum cleaner on while he went to work on nights - just to piss me off. (It backfired because I called the police as I was concerned he may have had a fall)

Anyway he's put a really nice art deco sideboard/display cabinet in the skip! We're in the process of arranging another neighbour to ask him for it in our behalf 😈

I found a load of ornate tiles. Most were chipped and beyond use.

Pretty hardcore.

Flymo law mower top(ish) of the range in skip blade needed sharpening two mins with angle grinder job done still going strong 10+ years later
Nearly brand new little tykes cozy coupe found side of road free to good home just needed a clean
1930's Art Deco style side table in a skip
None of these found by me ALL found by wife she is the queen of freebies in our house 8)

Jamie - Freeloader!

I found a load of ornate tiles. Most were chipped and beyond use.

Pretty hardcore.

Genuine LOL !

[i]Rusty you need an eBay account, tell Mrs rusty to haul in anything of value, you'd be surprised what sells[/i]

Pik n Mix could learn a thing or two from that piece of advice.

I found a load of ornate tiles. Most were chipped and beyond use.

Pretty hardcore.

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Tonight's find - 16 old floor joists, great for the shed we need to build and path edging in the garden.