WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND IN A BIN?

[coromar]

I can't seem to pass a bin at the marina without looking inside.

I have found enough fenders for our trip through the french canals, teak cleaner and teak oil, a nice hatch, 3 gals of diesel in a super plastic fuel tank, and a Free-view box which worked, and of course, lots of rope.

This is just this season's haul! Why do people throw such useful stuff away?

Keep looking

 

[B175Chris]

I mostly find banana skins and lard packets - unsurprising, really, considering I'm quite far inland /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Jonny_H]

When we were down in the Hamble one particular trip brought home 1 huge fender, a horseshoe bouy with drogue (new!), two mooring lines, a 140ft halyard and hundreds of feet of thin line for mousing halyards etc.

Now we're in Fleetwood its more a case of used oil filters or empty bean cans /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Jonny

 

[tinkicker0]

Tip Rats of the world unite!

Round here we don't even have bean tins, they have all been weighed in, how about dirty nappies, wot they worth then?

 

[Leighb]

I have not looked in a bin, obviously I should start doing so. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I have however in the last couple of years retrieved from the Orwell, 2 large blue fenders, and a nice horseshoe lifebuoy.

 

[flaming]

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When we were down in the Hamble one particular trip brought home 1 huge fender, a horseshoe bouy with drogue (new!), two mooring lines, a 140ft halyard and hundreds of feet of thin line for mousing halyards etc.




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Are you entirely sure that was a bin, and not a deposit of all the stuff taken off someone's boat to go racing!?

 

[FullCircle]

A complete working calorifier.

And my mate Skippy found a Johnson 4hp in working order - in the skip!

 

[Micky]

Two miniture "John Moore" oil paintings, sold at local auction for £1500.00. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Also, same bin.
An almost new .22rifle with scope in a bag.

+ Lot's of other items over the years.

 

[PilotWolf]

Two miniture "John Moore" oil paintings, sold at local auction for £1500.00.

Also, same bin.
An almost new .22rifle with scope in a bag.

Remainants of an armed robbery maybe?! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

W.

 

[Leighb]

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Also, same bin.
An almost new .22rifle with scope in a bag.


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Was that an air rifle? If not it requires a firearms certificate and the Polis can get very antsy about unlicensed firearms.

 

[graham]

In our club people put stuff next to the skip if they think it may be usefull to someone.

I have climbed in on a few occasions useually after bits of hardwood which I think it criminal to bin.

I once made a folding cockpit table entirely from mahogany rescued from a skip.

 

[Micky]

These items were binned from a house clearance where someone, i think was a navel officer, had past away.
I still have a few other items i found in the bin
The family who were clearing out the house had stood a few other pictures etc outside the bin for passerby's to take if they wanted.

I did ask permission to look though the bin.

There was a gun that needed a firearms certificate, the people at the house handed it to the police.

All an honest days work /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Salty John]

Skip diving, an essential pastime for cruisers!

I once found a complete Hood rollerfurling system.
On the other hand I've also contributed to the skip economy, tossing out still-good stuff that I haven't had time to sell nor room for on the boat. You win, you lose.

 

[mickshep]

Not boaty, but did find a complete engine, g/box, frame and forks with a box of brand new spares for a 500cc Ariel Red Hunter in a skip. We had it running inside a week. Mike.

 

[thalassa]

A 150 x 35 cm wide handcrafted (sculpted) teak boat name panel.
Complete working tank guage.
50 cm stack p*rn magazines.
Car radio with CD, working.
Complete china service, unbroken.
2 kgs of dark chocolate.
Substantial polycarbonate offcuts. Mahogany offcuts...I could go on...

 

[steve28]

where do i start !,

2kw generator (needed recoil rope remaking)
vhf radio working
vetus waterlock gooseneck and antisyphon
12v portable powerpack
bronze roller furler drum
2hp mariner outboard seized at gearbox
makita planner/thickneser (frayed power cord) (nice)

the list goes on, my friend has had 17` panasonic flat panel tv`s inc remotes all working, they had been removed from a vessel from america and were set on ntsc so apparently couldnt be tuned in over here. (not so)