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

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    When the hard rubbish collection is on in our area, we go "shopping"
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    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.
    Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- Sun Tzu

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Handyjack View Post
    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.
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    Default Recycling Timber from the council cleanups

    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.

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    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.
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