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General => News => Topic started by: Zippy Seale on February 12, 2006, 14:56:54

Title: King Scavenger strikes again!
Post by: Zippy Seale on February 12, 2006, 14:56:54
Just up the road from my lottie is a big construction site.  so on the off chance passed by and had a word with the site manager. 
"any old pallets, off cuts of timber...etc. let us know mate."
"And off cuts of plastic pipe wouldn't go a miss."
This morning I was walking pass and I heard a loud "Yo!"
look back and this youngish chap said I f I wanted to get any scrap I could have a rumage till 12 as he would be locking up the gates.
Fair enough I thought,  and started to browse.
A dozen or so 3 ft offcuts of 6" pvc pipe ( ideal for my show parsnips)
several lengths of  2 1/2 inch pipe,  ideal for carrots
various lengths of timber and 6 pallets.
So I called to the chap,  "could I load your flatbed and you run it down the road?"
"No Problem mate" he replied.   
On it all went and he even helped and threw in a couple of slighty split scaffold boards.
5 mins later through the lottie gates and offloaded it all, offered him a touch for a drink, which he refused. 
He then told me that when there finish building they normally depose of the big wooden fencing that surrounds the site.  He said he will give me a shout when they are due to take it down, and see if we can have it delvered to the lottie. so expect a lot of bright blue compost bins to be suddenly erected around the lottie...lol
Title: Re: King Scavenger strikes again!
Post by: supersprout on February 12, 2006, 15:09:36
Wow Celtic Growers, great haul, I can only admire, watch and learn!  ;)
Title: Re: King Scavenger strikes again!
Post by: ellkebe on February 12, 2006, 17:28:40
And what a great bloke!  Restores your faith to hear of someone like him after all the disheartening news about vandalism on sites etc.  Try and get him interested in taking a plot SS  ;D
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