Ever pick stuff up off the curb ?

BillinCentralMO · May 20, 2019

I drive through a nice part of town every Monday morning. That?s the day their trash pick up is. It?s amazing what I see. Brand new electric saber saw. Sitting on top of container for me to grab. This morning a nearly new Fimco boomless sprayer for an ATV or UTV. Not sure if the pump works. At worst , a good tank and lots of parts for the two I have. Saw ten brand new cinder blocks this morning too , but I wasn?t dressed to pick them up. I?m too cheap to pass up stuff like that. Anybody else scoring tools on trash day ? Also picked up a full dining room set a while back.Sold it on craigslist for $200. Really nice antique egg crate a couple weeks ago. Sure can?t beat the price. My pride goes out the window when tools and antiques are free.

old · May 20, 2019

I have an old re-curve bow that I picked up from some ones trash years ago and there is nothing wrong with it

Pete in MD · May 20, 2019

I did a lot of that as a kid in the '40s and early '50s. Lots of good stuff.

grandpa Love · May 20, 2019

Guy up the road put a tiller on the side of the road. I drug it home. Got almost new tines off it for mine. Motor isn't any good, but still enough good parts

Cory Schmidt · May 20, 2019

I don't have to stop by the curb....stuff finds its way here to the yard on its own...I also dumpster dive when I see tools. People at work look at me nuts when I go to dump something in the hopper by my station and start pulling things out before I dump my bucket in....got a nice vice grip, a few C clamps, a box of drill bits....what else I don't know

RBoots · May 20, 2019

Picked up a 2500 psi pressure washer about a month ago, along with a 3 ton floor Jack, had a free sign on them along the road. Luckily it was a very lightly travelled back road. Added oil to the jack, works good as new. Cleaned the carb on the pressure washer, works great! About half an hour to fix them both.

Steve@Advance · May 20, 2019

I've never bought a new mower.

Bought a used rider long time ago, but every push mower came off the curb or someone gave it to me.

And they all left running, just traded up whenever the opportunity arrived.

rustyplow · May 20, 2019

Don't go "looking" for it, but sure enough will stop if I see it. Just a couple weeks ago got an old coats 10 10 tire machine for the asking. Old rusty and beat up but it works.

Billy Shafer · May 20, 2019

I picked up a Whirlpool roll around dish washer. Six years ago. Lady threw it out said it didn't work. I have been using it ever since. Works just fine.

RedMF40 · May 20, 2019

Some years back I picked up a rough-looking homelite string trimmer someone had set out with their trash. I'd hired some day/laborers to knock back the greenery in an overgrown yard, and the Homelite was in my truck so I handed it to them, told them to see if it worked. They fired it up and it actually did a lot of work that day.

SodBuster87 · May 20, 2019

When I used to live in a certain welfare county in MN. I'd wait until the first Sunday night of the month and make my rounds. I pulled a name brand suitcase that I still use today. Brand New clothes many items still with tags on/in plastic. A push mower that i sold for $25. One time I pulled 50 game disks out of the dumpster that I sold to a pawn shop for $2 each. One time I pulled out a brand new in package Wahl hair clipper and a Heavy Duty DeWalt 7" grinder.

Lately I've gotten lazy. I got a deal with a couple pawn shops to haul away their junk/customer returns/"dead merchandise" etc. Getting too old to climb in dumpsters.

504 · May 20, 2019

I have picked up tool boxes,top,bottom,carry,new steel scrape. I picked up a seven step roll around warehouse step for $20.00 sold it for $100.00,then bought(today)an eleven step that will reach the top floor of my shop for a $100.00. I am getting too darn old to drag parts up a ladder.

T.R.K. · May 20, 2019

I used to work with a guy who brought all his trash to work and throw it in the company dumpster. I got a lot of useful stuff from him, just checked the dumpster every week. I hated to see him move on to 'greener pastures.'

I even saw him throw a bag into the dumpster some time after he quit. He then came inside and bought something.

BillinCentralMO · May 20, 2019

The pump works. The high tension on the shiny battery clamps suggests little use. The cap is cracked. I have one extra already. I think they?re $8. I think they tossed it because the cap was broke. Or perhaps because it had Round - up in it , now known to be ? lethal?. I have a back up atv sprayer now.

BillinCentralMO · May 20, 2019

My friend knew this guy that would buy a new gun. Then that winter when work was slow , he?d sell them cheap. I have a new Marlin 44 mag lever action rifle which the guy sold my friend - for $200. I think he paid $600 for it new.

Russ from MN · May 20, 2019

Last fall I pushed home a nice lawn mower from our morning walk, nothing really wrong with it, just neglect. Had it running good in an hour, took it to the cabin, wife loves it!

tomstractorsandtoys · May 20, 2019

Our township has trash day on friday's. You can take your trash to town and put it in a dumpster. There is also a metal dumpster and a tire pile. I always check the metal dumpster for good steel and have even got a few truck tires that were good enough for hay wagons. I take my small scrap up each week as I feel that adds up to enough to cover anything I haul home and pay towards the trash I take to town. Tom

Greg1959 · May 20, 2019

Back in the early 1980's, I put new shingles on my house. I used mt FIL truck to haul the old shingles to the dump. My FIL wanted me to get my new push mower and mow his lawn while I was at it.

I got his truck and went to my house and loaded up the old shingles to take to the dump.....I then loaded my new push mower on top of the load of old shingles and head towards the dump. I was going to mow mt FILs place after I dumped the shingles.

The landfill was at the end of an old county road. By the time I made it to the landfill, I had a whole line of cars/trucks, behind me, that were waving and trying to flag me down.

When I got to the scales, I was bum-rushed by a mob, all wanting my mower. When I explained that I was dumping the old shingles and just hauling the mower to take back home....some of those guys got really PO'ed. lol

37chief · May 20, 2019

Dad and my self would go the city dump around noon when the workers were eating. He would take a little trash, and look around for scrap iron , copper or brass. One time the workers said we would have to stop taking stuff. On another return trip we found the workers scrounging around looking for scrap iron. The problem was we were cutting in on their profit. I have often said a person with enough time could build a house and furnish it, with what people toss out. Stan

Olyj1947 · May 21, 2019

On garbage day, I spotted a real nice wooden box setting by the curb. The markings and decals were intact, clear and sharp and I grabbed it. At home I found a complete American Flyer toy train set inside!

Traditional Farmer · May 21, 2019

I pick up cardboard set out for the trash in the Winter to start fires in the wood stove.Surprising how much personal information people will leave in a box life bank/CC
statements other very personal information.

Geo-TH,In · May 21, 2019

I provide a dumpster for my tenants. I'm surprised the things they throw away. One lady threw away 2 trash bags of new clothes with tags still on them. I gave the clothes to a poor person who was happy to get them for their daughter. You can't believe what some people pitch. So I'm a dumpster diver. I dive in my dumpster. Any metal goes in my metal recycle pile.

Bob in SD · May 21, 2019

The closest town to us has "spring clean up" where all of the residents put larger stuff out on the curb one week, it sits for a week for people to "curb shop", then the city hauls it to the dump. Rumor is you don't want to leave your lawnmower in your front yard, even for a minute, that week.

I did pick up a push mower once that was under a pile of trash. I had a good motor at home, but the deck had rotted away, so I was planning to swap. I pulled the plug, and the "new" mower passed the thumb-over-the-spark-hole compression test, so I wiped the plug off and put some clean gas in it. Didn't quite start, but sounded close after a few pulls. I noticed that the carb linkage was just a little mangled so that the lever up on handle (fancy!) wouldn't move far enough to choke it. Choked it and it started on the second pull. Runs fine. Several years later I still haven't fixed that linkage though--I'll get around to it one of these days.

Ted in NE-OH · May 21, 2019

When I was working I pulled a big aluminum bent tubing out of the company dumpster, later on they needed it so I sold it back to them.

Mike M · May 21, 2019

I'm usually not out and about to catch trash days it seems ? Or if I do see good stuff I do not have the truck then. I have pulled my fair share from dumpsters !

Old560 · May 21, 2019

Walking the dog one day. Saw a mower on the curb with a free sign on it, the owner said it didn?t cut good so he bought a new mower. I took the old one home blade was on upside down turned the blade over ran it for several years worked great.

DoubleO7 · May 21, 2019

Down here at the crack of dawn in the upper class subdivisions you need to be real careful.
There are hoards of pickers racing thru to be the first to get any "good" stuff.

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