The scabs have hit the ground running (literally)

[wheelinround]

Just goes to show https://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/m...ml#post1605131

[burraboy]

I think the word 'streetcomber' is a more appropriate, and polite, appellation these days.

[Chesand]

When the hard rubbish collection is on in our area, we go "shopping"

[enelef]

You guys are all lucky - or you picked great councils.

My council does not have hard rubbish pick up - so i have to go scouting, or just see something on a drive.

[Handyjack]

We put out an old wooden desk that was 'too small'.

Within a few days it had disappeared. We had not arranged a council pick up.

Funny thing is about ten years earlier it was sitting outside a house a couple of blocks away and I wheeled it to my place.

Recycling at its best.

[FenceFurniture]

We put out an old wooden desk that was 'too small'.

Within a few days it had disappeared. We had not arranged a council pick up.

Funny thing is about ten years earlier it was sitting outside a house a couple of blocks away and I wheeled it to my place.

Recycling at its best.

So, Kevin, does that make you a Recycling Custodian or a sc...

It ended up I didn't take a pic of what's left, but only two items remain: the planter box next to where the hose was and the dark brown shelves.

[crowie]

G'day Brett, I've found some of my best toymaking timber from the local council cleanup.
They only do it once a year up here on the mountains [dud council that we have].
I hate seeing old timber heading for the tip or the fire as so much of the old stuff is way better than I can buy or afford these days....
Cheers, crowie.

[FenceFurniture]

Indeed Peter. As I drove around Sydney, in my previous life, I was always on the lookout for potential firewood (my only real use of timber in that life).

Only thing left out the front now is the dark brown small shelves - it's been raining direcly onto the cut edge of the pineboard so I reckon they knackered. I could have put a plastic cover over the top, but there's a limit to my effort for the BM sc "recyclers". The shop display will have to satisfy them for this year.