[TheForge] Re: Scrounging small stock

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I love dumpster diving....if only we could recycle all the hot air of 
the political season to  blow our forges..ought to supply all of us all 
darn year easily......Pete F

Mike Spencer wrote:

>>Our town dump ("transfer station") has a metal pile. They don't
>>allow picking from that, but if I go on a weekday and ask nice,
>>they've always let me.
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>Our county "recycling facility" is rigid about forbidding scroungers.
>But this week and next are the semiannual "Big Junk Days" and so far,
>nobody has forbidden scrounging from along the roadside.  I just built
>an exhaust system for the welding table all from stuff scavenged last
>spring -- squirrel cage fan, motor, steel tube, 12" ductwork, plywood
>-- except for some 1/4" bolts.  Some of the stuff people put out by
>the road for the occasion is amazing.
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>About the political signs:  Maybe you can find out who locally is
>making them and scrounge their dumpster for off-cuts.
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>- Mike
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