Can't help myself these days... Guess I'm watching toooo much on the Discovery Chann etc.. Every time I go to the council tip I find myself pulling bits out of the skips.. Especially the metal skip! It's a fair trade off I though or so I think anyway, I take them more rubble than is allowed plus a few conifers etc and I get to bring home some potential goodies.. I've just made this portable pressure washer.. ( my compressors mobile) thought it would be ideal for cleaning off when I use my B&Q sand blast box.. Found the old fuel can with no leaks, drilled suitable hole in top and fitted quick release air connector which goes to my compressor.. Scrap copper pipe and cheap air blower gun rescued from you know where, old rubber pipe from same place, clips and copper joiner from stuff I had lying around in workshop, union fitted to bottom of can from an old overflow / system tank again from the place my poll tax helps to run.. 50 mins later and it's all working great.. At 30 psi it projects cleaning fluid/water a good 20 - 30 feet down the garden.. The only part I had to buy was the connector for the air blower gun £2... The petrol can is the hard ridged kind so it works great, just fitted my inline regulator to air feed, half filled can with cleaner and water.. The air fills the rest of the can, press the gun and away you go .. Recycling is the way forward.. Now where's that old jerry can I got from the tip, that would hold even more... N@@DS
Ha... I luv it.. What was that Chann 4 prog with a tasty bird on it where two teams had to make something within a car scrap yard.. I get frustrated if I can't do something I really need to do hence I will try to set about solving it.. I'm also amazed how much good stuff people throw away.. My sand blast box works so well and this is ideal for flushing all the crap out.. Or I can make a slurry mix of baking soda and water, put it in the can.. And aqua blast away..
Was it scrap heap challenge? I am like that to but more with what I am trying to do at work, I know the computer can do it but it just wont play ball
It's not so easy these days but.. After being told off once and getting into a debate over it I looked into the law over it.. It seems the issue is as always these days H&S.. But if your going to recycle it you can, as long as your don't endanger anyone remove items from the skip.. What I do is, I have an old extending golf ball Pond picker/pole which I've put a hook on.. Easy! If we don't put it to use the scrap just goes to China where it's turned around and we buy it once more, as something else, we probably dont really need...
Where did you find this Noods? I`ve had a few run in`s with the tip rats at the council recycle centre when I`ve tried snagging stuff out the scrap skip, start eyeing up their stash of stainless sinks at the side of the skips and they get real defensive.
Pierre 66 Yes mate I got so fed up with the jobs worths... I went there once with a large van full of conifer cuttings. They watched me struggle to get it in the skip on my own.. I wanted to brush out my mates van I'd borrowed when I'd finished , so asked the " trigger" of the dump if I could use his broom and shovel, no he said I can't let you use those it's council property.. So when I went to drive away leaving bits of conifer on the floor, two of them shouted saying I had to sweep it up.. Can't I said, no broom.. Drove off with a finger in the air .. I had the same issues with metals, so what I did was I took a picture of their stash and went to the council head office, was told no one can take anything away from the tip.. I asked if the same rule applied for all, yes they replied.. Ok I said, I pay my taxes so I own the dump along with the council employees, they agreed as such, I then showed them a picture of the rats stash, oh no they said they are not allowed to take or sell anything.. Ok I said and then produced a video of two of the rats loading their cars with scrap metal.. A senior Council officer then admitted that they couldn't stop me removing items as long as I didn't get in the skip.. So I use a golf ball pole with a hook on it or wait until I see someone getting something from their car I fancy and ask for it.. I got a vax Hoover (fully working), a small blacksmiths anvil, loAds of scrap metals.. If any of them say anything to me I just quote the councillors name to them.. And say I have pictures of some of your cars bearing gifts... It's crazy, if you can make something from someone's scrap, isn't that recycling? Just what the government and local councils ask us to do! .. So effectively if you see a Rats stash, take pictures, then when they give you a hard time tell them you will be reporting them for theft.. They will soon let you get on with it. ..
It is odd that they suddenly treat it as their property....Once it has passed the strict screening process of course!
Cheers Noods. My next trip to the tip I`ll be going properly tooled up. Extendable clothes prop.......check. Hook fastened to the end of it.......check. There`s gold in them thar skips.
In principle excellent. However I doubt very much that jerry can is pressure rated, even to 30 psi. Stored energy can kill, even at low pressure.
Your not wrong mate... I work for the largest port in the UK and all we import are Chinese goods... All we export is engines for gliders ( fresh air to those who have hit the bottle already ) and 30 tonne 20ft containers of scrap metal.. We point them towards China only for them to return with more Chinese wonders but a few months later.. Stand up for your rights, what's right for them is right for you.. Any Rat trouble contact your MP or Council office.. And Bring back scrap heap challenge on TV with Lisa Rodgers .. But this time base it at a local Council tip... Making the council rats run around collecting the bits for us, team Ducatisti, to mastermind, create.. And recycle.. X
That is quite true... Potential energy (stored energy can then turn to kinetic energy very quickly) ..I've seen that stored in a thugs fist and used after a heavy nights drinking down the pub on some poor unfortunate.. Not a pretty sight.. I've also seen IMV tyres blow and that's frightening... However as a scavenger, and ex mechanic I've already got that one covered, quite literally. I Welded a steel cage together which bolts down to the floor either inside my workshop or outside. I put the Jerry can inside that.. Oh and my luvly Son, is an award winning Durham PHD physicist and Nuclear physicist.. That comes in handy at times too..
Anyone else see a Darwin Award coming his way? Although as he already has a son he wouldn't strictly qualify.
