> Hiya Rehd,

> Yup, I've seen lots of guys taking stuff that is just plain ol' junk, I'll
> only take something if I have a use for it in the forseeable future.
> There's heaps of stuff that "I might be able to do something
> with", but it's really just crap that'll take up the allready limited
> space in my shed. It's nice to save something from landfill, especially if
> it is something that the trashee just doesn't have a use for but is
> perfectly good, like the ply I got yesterday (I scored another 6 sheets of
> 3mm luanne today). I did see an old sea kayak on one scrap heap. But
> because the council won't take anything longer than about 6 feet in
> length, the trashee had CUT IT INTO THREE PIECES! No, I didn't take it.

> Final tally: 1 mens mountain bike, 1 ladies 10 speed bike (for the wife),
> 8 sheets 8'x4' 4mm luanne, 6 sheets 8'x4' 3mm luanne, 1 golf cart (yak
> cart), 1 6" stack of balsa wood sheets ranging in thickness from
> 1.5mm to 19mm (ok, so I can't see a use for them, but what the hell), and
> a couple of good paper backs. Plus the western red cedar boards (5x 1
> 1/4"x9"x14') that I liberated from a dumpster at a demolition
> site a year or so ago. Not bad at all, considering that all this crap
> would just end up as landfill if I didn't take it, now it's My crap. Oh
> and, no it's not what we in Australia would call "scabby" (a bad
> thing) , saving materials from our already overburdened landfills is
> widely reguarded as a good thing, so there's no stigma attached.

> If you, or any of the other kbbs regulars do get down my way, I'd be upset
> if you didn't let me know, I could set up a very nice paddle. Even without
> the coral (there ain't none in Sydney) there are some beautiful serene
> places to paddle, and some excellent rock gardens.

> Stay tuned, I've got enough free wood to build at least 1 stripper and
> about four or five S&G's (where does one draw the limit?).

LIMIT !! SSSSHHHH!!! You'll be thrown out of the KBBB. Build all 5 or 6 and rent them out. :) Then take the money and build another. :)

What a pity
> nobody trashed any epoxy or glass;-) Oh, and I'll be posting pics of my
> recently finished Guillemot S&G in the next day or so.

> Nope, She was thinking "Oh God, He didn't get sick of it after one
> boat like I thought He would!" Well, We're only in our early
> thirties, She'll get used to it by the time we're forty, I hope...

> Paul.

Fair Dinkum haul my friend. I believe that's how ya'll would say it. Over here, the younger group would say " Righteous Plunder ".

You don't suppose you could swap 2 sheets of each, 4mm and 3mm ply and get some epoxy and glass from another interested builder over there ?? You could get at least 2 or 3 totally free Yaks out of it. Wow !! I can't imagine why someone would throw stuff like that away. But.........who cares :) Enjoy.

A couple of Roses, bottle of bubbly and a night out every now and then and she'll think kayaks are the greatest thing to ever come into your marriage :)

It's fun to watch what happens to,say, a couch or bed. One guy will take the foam, the next will take the metal frame, and someone will come get the wood, and the city used to get upset about folks tearing up all the stuff, until they found out, it's all going into recycle plants for money. The only thing left to landfill was the material(cloth). :)

Lookin forward to a progress report on the freebies. That would be a Kool story to post from start to finish. Try to keep it completely free. Good luck and most of all, Have Fun.

Rehd