Tip Shops

[trout]

Recycling stations , Tip Shops whatever you want to call them are awesome places to get stuff that you need at bargain basement prices :dance2:
Whenever I get home from working away I normally have to do a tip run (NO rubbish pick up from the farm) and I always call into the Tip Shop on the way home.
There is always something "Handy" there , I have gotten ALL my big plant pots from there at a fraction of the price at Bunnings :good:
Anyone else have any stories about finds at the Tip Shop?

[stevo1962]

Recycling stations , Tip Shops whatever you want to call them are awesome places to get stuff that you need at bargain basement prices :dance2:
Whenever I get home from working away I normally have to do a tip run (NO rubbish pick up from the farm) and I always call into the Tip Shop on the way home.
There is always something "Handy" there , I have gotten ALL my big plant pots from there at a fraction of the price at Bunnings :good:
Anyone else have any stories about finds at the Tip Shop?

A year or two ago we used to check them out once every few weeks.That was when we were restoring antiquie furniture that we picked up from Lifeline or the Salvo's.The tip shop was good for bits and pieces but have got no more space for any more furniture or other stuff
as the house is chockablock so spend my time on coins and plants thesedays

[JeffH]

I bought a set of "mags" for my vehicle. Cost me $600 for four; secondhand with good tyres.
A few weeks later my son bought an identical wheel (along with several others to match some he had) for $5 each at the tip shop. Was actually better condition than the ones I had!

My wife got an oak side table with barley twist legs, matching the dining suite we restored...free.

[Unicorn]

Trout's gonna pop some slabs
 He's got holey-dollars in his pocket
 He - he - he's a hunting, looking for a come-back
 This is forum awesome

[Ozcoins]

Very funny Uni.

[jozk123]

Slightly off topic awhile  back my neighbours brother found a tin with several soveriegns in it at the tip.He said he got rid off them years ago.

Very funny Uni.

MC Unicorn's in the house

[purplepennyhunter]

I can feel a pilots cap comment coming.


Last visit to the in-laws at Mildura took us to the aroundagain, a very fitting name for re-using unwanted stuff.

[ausjack]

council stop us here many many years ago, taking money from them they now charge to take it in and out and to me it should all be free

[trout]

council stop us here many many years ago, taking money from them they now charge to take it in and out and to me it should all be free

The days of taking a trailer load of junk down the tip and bringing a trailer load of Gems back is long gone mate :dash1:

That being said you will find items far cheaper at the tip shop than at the second hand dealers or the newspaper adds :good:
It is just the way things are these days Mate :ok:
The Missus picked up a 5 gallon bucket of  tech screws for $5 AWSOME :wavemulticolor:

[Unicorn]

The Missus picked up a 5 gallon bucket of  tech screws for $5

Can't complain about that Trout! The tin will never come off!

These guys have a special on three and a half inch hose bits .......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw7yA9ylCHA

[ausjack]

Sorry trout but to me "it's just the way it is" is piss poor excuse for being greedy and I don't know about anywhere else but I can tell you the rubbish all over the road is becoming a joke and they even dump it at the gates of the dumps or where ever they want, it's turning oz into one HUGE dump so I reckon make it free like in QLD, true I went to dump with a mate and I was blown away that you only show your licence go in dump and take a trailor of mulch home and only cost you fuel but here they charge like wounded bull and wonder why, very sad for the country but it's just the way it is Sorry mate but this is why thing aren't getting better, the old "she'll be right" was good but not in todays age

[Nevol]

In Brisbane, we get mailed 5 'free' dump vouchers for green waste and 5 'free' for general waste each financial year (with 100 kg load limit) and I have absolutely no doubt that the cost is built in to our rates.  Nothing is free these days.

Once all the vouchers are used in any financial year, we have to pay.

[Fulvio]

5 'free' dump vouchers for green waste

Why would anyone EVER give away free worm food, let alone pay for the priviledge?? Nothing organic should ever go into a tip, or a compost heap for that matter.

[JeffH]

I don't take organic waste to the tip -too useful to waste. And I don't get the "mulch" from the tip -it used to be free but now they sell it. It's full of shredded plastic rubbish because people are too lazy to separate their rubbish items.

[trout]

Sorry trout but to me "it's just the way it is" is piss poor excuse for being greedy and I don't know about anywhere else but I can tell you the rubbish all over the road is becoming a joke and they even dump it at the gates of the dumps or where ever they want, it's turning oz into one HUGE dump so I reckon make it free like in QLD, true I went to dump with a mate and I was blown away that you only show your licence go in dump and take a trailor of mulch home and only cost you fuel but here they charge like wounded bull and wonder why, very sad for the country but it's just the way it is Sorry mate but this is why thing aren't getting better, the old "she'll be right" was good but not in todays age

We don't have to pay to take a ute load of rubbish to the tip here.
So there is NO random dumping because people are unable to afford to pay a fee :ok:
The Mulch I wouldn't touch with a pointed stick It "reeks" YUCK .
I am happy to buy the blocks of coir mulch at Bunning's and use that.

the Tip shop does charge for items they have salvaged But at a tiny fraction of what they would cost anywhere else :good:

Crikey my patio I just built is 7m x 15m and I think it cost me about $30 to build after some scrounging and getting the odd item at the tip shop :dance2: