Living a by a landfill has its perks.

[justin1]

Went to the dump today to doing some scavenging for a DC motor for a project and got my self a basicly new chop saw.

Plugged it in and it fired right up doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it missing the bolt that holds on blade and the cord has some damage and the head lock down is broken. Besides that seems in perfect shape.

 

[justin1]

Also dump is a good source for blower motors of various styles

Dryers, stoves, furnaces,

Furnace inducer motor

Dryer blower

Stove blowers not as useful but always available.

And you can find more weed wackers and lawnmowers then you know what to do with.

And treadmill motors which I was hunting for are also usually available when you don't want one.

 

[Tomc938]

Plugged it in and it fired right up doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it missing the bolt that holds on blade and the cord has some damage and the head lock down is broken. Besides that seems in perfect shape.

Sounds like me: "Nothing wrong with me - other than bad knees, a couple of compressed disks and arthritis in my hands."

 

[jcdammeyer]

At Heartland Landfill we're not allowed to 'scavenge'... Here, if something appears to work it's donated to: Value Village where it's resold by 'corporate' at a profit; ReStore which is fully Habit for Humanity and not profit based; and Salvation Army for clothes etc.

Apparently most of the clothes at the Salvation Army go offshore. Although the CEO of Salvation Army makes about $499K the rest of the staff are more reasonable competitive.

Oh and Mark Walsh, CEO of Savers Value Village earns over 10 million per year. So when you donate to Value Village ...

 

[justin1]

Sounds like me: "Nothing wrong with me - other than bad knees, a couple of compressed disks and arthritis in my hands."

Nah more of missing a shoe and a broken finger lol. Nothing like those old 200 lb radial arm saws from the 70s

At Heartland Landfill we're not allowed to 'scavenge'

Apparently most of the clothes at the Salvation Army go offshore. Although the CEO of Salvation Army makes about $499K the rest of the staff are more reasonable competitive.

Which is dumb considering all the "green" taxes and other stuff being pushed.

Ye very little gets sold some gets turned into rags and rest get dumped in 3rd world country and some gets made in denim insulation.

Value village got forced say it's a for profit business. You think if you cared about keeping stuff out of landfill it's would be like 5$ any pants and 2.50$ for any shirts and blah blah.

I almost don't buying second hand cloths because it hard to find anything cheap to make it worth it even at some of the small thrift stores. I buy cheapest Walmart shirts and pants as it's basically same cost as value village cloths Within Few dollars.

 

[jorogi]

At Heartland Landfill we're not allowed to 'scavenge'... Here, if something appears to work it's donated to: Value Village where it's resold by 'corporate' at a profit; ReStore which is fully Habit for Humanity and not profit based; and Salvation Army for clothes etc.

Apparently most of the clothes at the Salvation Army go offshore. Although the CEO of Salvation Army makes about $499K the rest of the staff are more reasonable competitive.

Oh and Mark Walsh, CEO of Savers Value Village earns over 10 million per year. So when you donate to Value Village ...

Also it can't go in the Made in/Shop in Canada thread.

 

[kstrauss]

At Heartland Landfill we're not allowed to 'scavenge'... Here, if something appears to work it's donated to: Value Village where it's resold by 'corporate' at a profit; ReStore which is fully Habit for Humanity and not profit based; and Salvation Army for clothes etc.

Apparently most of the clothes at the Salvation Army go offshore. Although the CEO of Salvation Army makes about $499K the rest of the staff are more reasonable competitive.

Oh and Mark Walsh, CEO of Savers Value Village earns over 10 million per year. So when you donate to Value Village ...

Actually it is far worse than you might think. According to the CRA, there are 334 "salvation army" registered charities in Canada and each has their own execs. Their head office (The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada) alone has 7 execs making $250-299K, 2 making $300-350K and 1 making over $350K.

Visit https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplyBscSrch to see how bad other charities are!

 

[Tom O]

Growing up in Victoria the Salvation Army would accept any kind of furniture and any piece that required reupholstering was done in house that would train the less fortunate/handicapped now the they just want the pristine pieces to sell.