Mark Allanson
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| posted on 29/12/03 at 11:18 PM |
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You should try the skips around here, I once took a Jeep and car trailor with a 3 piece suite, a fridge, a washing machine, 2 old chairs and a
Christmas tree all held down with 5 ratchet tie-downs. As I drove to the 'waiting area', the load was examined by a gaggle of extras from
Mad Max. I reversed in (a bit tricky because of the narrow entrance) I eventually got the trailor in and pulled on the handbrake, climed out and found
the christmas tree and 3 tie-downs on the trailor! Discretion won in the face of hopeless valour so I drove home. About 2 miles down the A30 I saw the
sofa half way up the embankment!
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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kingr
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| posted on 30/12/03 at 12:17 AM |
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Well, I'll give the Somerset Council it's due - it may have a totally ridiculous attitude to road safety, but they've pretty good
about throwing stuff away - never got grief about taking things to the tip and I paid £10 to have a Fiesta XR2 with no engine and the front cut off to
be taken away, and I had a totally pilaged sierra with the engine in the back seat and everything else missing and a partial respray in black enamel
down one side (practice!) taken away for free - maybe they've cottoned on to the fact that if they give people grief about throwing stuff away
in the right place, they don't just go home and keep it, they lob it into a field/drag it somewhere a short distance from their home and burn
it, which ultimately cost them more.
Kingr
Kingr
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 30/12/03 at 12:19 AM |
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i like the warning signs outside our tip.
illegal dumping is a 20k fine
dumping hazardous waste is 2k fine.
so - an old tv is 20k
a nuclear isotope 2k
wan#ers
atb
steve
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Rorty
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| posted on 30/12/03 at 03:53 AM |
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I'll give the Somerset Council it's due - it may have a totally ridiculous attitude to road safety, but they've pretty good about
throwing stuff away
I had a chat with the resident Gypo up at the Odcombe Tip a while ago, and he informed me he actually tendered for the right to scavenge all incoming
crap for its retail value!
Cheers, Rorty.
"Faster than a speeding Pullet".
PLEASE DON'T U2U ME IF YOU WANT A QUICK RESPONSE. TRY EMAILING ME INSTEAD!
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paulf
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| posted on 30/12/03 at 11:01 PM |
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That is the exact problem with our tip tossers, they tendered and bought the rights to salvage and expect the public to do all the work for them .At
one time they used to climb in the skips and sort the rubbish, now it seems they would rather I did it.
The entrance area is more like a cross between a carboot and a jumble sale, and the que to get in can be horrendous at weekends.
Paul.
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Originally posted by Rorty
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I had a chat with the resident Gypo up at the Odcombe Tip a while ago, and he informed me he actually tendered for the right to scavenge all incoming
crap for its retail value!
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 30/12/03 at 11:28 PM |
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and...... its all arranged as a carousel.
rather than back ip to a skip and chuk all the crap in it whilly nillly, the skips are now arranged in a half circle.
around the half circle goes 3 lanes of cars. You are stuck untill the 3 cars in front of you have finished unloading. Then you have to walk to 4 or 5
skips in turn to put whatever it is you want to dump in the right skip.
the area on entry sells the most utter crap. I know I would be on skid row if I ever had to buy anything from there.
I often trash stuff thats half useful just so they cant make money out of me.
my mate was dumping a vacuum cleaner. 'does it work' they asked. WTF do you think Im dumping it he said!
atb
steve
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paulf
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| posted on 31/12/03 at 04:08 PM |
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Steve
i have to admit i always make sure anything i take there is beyond selling, but then again i never thow anything away that looks like it might be
usefull.
The wife usually does that for me much to my annoyance.
Paul.
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Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
I often trash stuff thats half useful just so they cant make money out of me.
my mate was dumping a vacuum cleaner. 'does it work' they asked. WTF do you think Im dumping it he said!
atb
steve
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 31/12/03 at 10:43 PM |
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ebay is useful
but if its worth 10 quid and weighs 40 kilo, its down the dump!
atb
steve
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