I wonder though - is that officially theft? I was given half a dozen eggs by a farmer I delivered some steel to the other day - I wonder if I could be disciplined for it, should my employer wish to put one over on me?
We have a Glaswegian colloquial term for you guys, midgy rakers 
Shandy123:
I wonder though - is that officially theft? I was given half a dozen eggs by a farmer I delivered some steel to the other day - I wonder if I could be disciplined for it, should my employer wish to put one over on me?
Technically-Yes, but I always called it ‘Recycling’
I forgot to mention the TV’s that we ‘Recycled’. We had a 40yard bin full of brand new Portable TV/Video players, still in the boxes. I had about 8 or 9, they were all over the house & even gave some away, found out why they were Binned (sent for destruction) because you couldn’t program the time/clock, it was just before the turn of the century & they wouldn’t be the right time after the new year (These really did have the Millenium Bug 
) Wasn’t a problem for me, they still recorded on the button & played videos & received TV channels. Had 'em for about 10 years altogether, not bad for a freebie. 
merc0447:
We have a Glaswegian colloquial term for you guys, midgy rakers
I used to work for BT a long while ago, always used to check the skips at the exchanges and the engineering centres. The amount of brand new phones etc that got slung out because the box was damaged was phenomenal. Just a shame eBay wasn’t around then…
Gary
Any good skip finds 2014 ?
I found a skip with a truck stuck underneath it. It had a driver and everything.
LOL good ol BT 
been there etc
Years ago i did a bit of skip work, i collected from a wine warehouse, there was a guy sat next to the skip, surrouinded by boxes of wine, and him with a hammer, his job was to smash the bottles into the skip, so once i put him right, i ended up with 2 t chests full of chardonay, it was a regular job we had got and every driver who did the run paid out a tenner for the old boy not to smash em. Lubbly Jubbly
A canteen of 17th century solid silver cutlery - sold for about £7,000.
Brand new up and over electric garage door, wrong colour sent 
Prior to driving I used to work night shift in a steel fabrication factory close to the Sheffield arena, it didnt take long for the skip diving to start between myself and the guys I was working with. We soon discovered that someone at the electrical wholesalers next door was taking quite a lot of good stuff and dumping it in the skip as rubbish, hed then return around 9pm the same night to retrieve it, which was around the time of our 1st tea break which we used to take sitting outside the factory, which is how we noticed the guy repeatedly returning to pick up his loot.
It didn`t take long for us to figure out that we could retrieve the stuff before he returned. leaving him puzzled where the stuff had gone. Then there was the double glazing firm who had the council contract, they would rip out perfectly good doors and windows from houses and replace them with new as per the contract, the old stuff was usually stacked besides the skip, which was collected and sold in the free ads papers for £20-£50 a go. Paint, timber, and old car panels where other items. Anything that could be advertised in the free ads was game
bigvern1:
I found a skip with a truck stuck underneath it. It had a driver and everything.
Quality. 
skis and all the stuff x2 ,divorce clearout…oars X4 (same sort as the boat race)…sold them tae a sports bar. never had to buy a card (birthday, xmas ,easter ).till the wife found out 
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a piano …sold to a shop,drum kit … home movies/pictures lol. an old till after a shop fire …they never checked for money 150 pound in it shared out 2ways on a sat morning in the early 90s.
divorces were very good for a share out at the tip.
Marks and sparks bins ,food never out o date on a saturday morning pickup(before they started throughing dye in.).
ahhhh great days.
jimmy.
I found my very first CB radio in a skip at Swifts in the early 80’s, the channel indicator didn’t work properly, it only showed the horizontal lights so I had to figure out what channel I was on, me and a mate did this by him tuning to 18 and then me flicking through until he heard me, once found I then knew where 19 was and counted channels to move from there. I kept that CB for years, then someone gave me a new Midland for a birthday gift. Living here my first company fitted CB’s in all their trucks, someone then gave me an old one when I was an O/O, then on my present company one of the drivers who quit gave me a nice Cobra… I have never paid for a CB radio in my life … and never will.
It’s amazing how finding things in skips helps you in life
Once found a little workman complete with dungarees. We named him Reg, took him home and stood him in the corner. Sadly, we had to let him go cos he wuz costing us a small fortune in biscuits.
My dad would always do a bit of “skip surfing” as he called it. When he used to deliver beds to the likes of Allied carpets. Hed found plenty of carpet “offcuts” no wonder Allied went bankrupt. He found enough to carpet the three bedrooms and the landing and stairs in his house, plus old carpet samples from the shop and caet tiles which we sold at carboot sales as door mats. Made a killing on them. Altho one driver he worked with did find a couple of brand new Massey Ferguson tractor seats.
Ive never done it myself, but my late grandad used to do skip diving all the time. He was a bit of a hoarder so his house was full of all kinds of stuff that he’d found. Made a nice bit of money at the auction house after he passed away. He did normally ask if he could check the skips, and his eyes lit up when he dived into a skip behind the local supermarket which was being re-fitted. Had nearly 5 ton of cable that he striped and weigh’d in. 100+ light fittings, shelves the lot. It would of been easier if the shop fitters took it straight to his house rather than put it in the skip. They was happy cos their skip was never gonna be over loaded, plus they was helping out an OAP. and my grandad was happy cos he earnt a small fortune and bought a new car with the proceeds.
A friend of mine used to work for a firm that picked up skips (South London, Kingston , Sutton, Epsom ) for WH smith , which were magazines out of date, i.e the next months issue had come out.
To make them useless they used to pour dye in the skip to wreck them…
Turned up early one day and bingo , had a result at the car boot.
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