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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Do you still have one iv not seen one in years all i see now are little shits pinching bikes swings and anything shiny to scrap
Like an army of fagins magpies
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
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"Do you still have one iv not seen one in years all i see now are little shits pinching bikes swings and anything shiny to scrap
Like an army of fagins magpies
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. I haven’t seen one for years.Although Christmas time on TV they tend to show the films of Steptoe and Son |
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"Or a pig bin man
What's one of those??? "
It could just be because we were in a rural area. Everyone had a bin outside the back door to put waste food in. The local pig farmer came once a week and collected it to feed his pigs. I suspect its illegal now. |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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We have one, when we first moved in and where getting rid of stuff the neighbour said don't take it to the tip, the man comes round for that, leave it on your drive and it will gone.
Sure enough it disappeared within hours, we didn't see him though so we are not sure if he is real or not. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Or a pig bin man
What's one of those???
It could just be because we were in a rural area. Everyone had a bin outside the back door to put waste food in. The local pig farmer came once a week and collected it to feed his pigs. I suspect its illegal now. "
I grew up across the road from a pig farm, going to have to ask my mum if they did this  |
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"Do you still have one iv not seen one in years all i see now are little shits pinching bikes swings and anything shiny to scrap
Like an army of fagins magpies
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Our local one takes it from source so we don't need to sort it, or put it out for him.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We have one, when we first moved in and where getting rid of stuff the neighbour said don't take it to the tip, the man comes round for that, leave it on your drive and it will gone.
Sure enough it disappeared within hours, we didn't see him though so we are not sure if he is real or not. "
oooo like santa in reverse oh wait thats a burglar never mind  |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"The plumber put my old toilet and sink in a skip on my drive and when I came back from my kid's nativity play they had vanished. "
I suppose unless it was manky it will do someone a good turn |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore. |
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"Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore."
Put it in next doors garden in the middle of the night and claim no knowledge of it |
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"Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore."
Make it into a water feature |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore.
Make it into a water feature"
council will take it but they charge
if not a mate with an estate car and down therecycling center |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore.
put some hub caps on it , will definentley get nicked"
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore.
put some hub caps on it , will definentley get nicked"
And the award for the oldest joke ever goes to.... |
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"Mine has done a disappearing act recently, and I have a cooker I want to get rid of.
I could put it in my front garden and see if someone takes it, but it will be an eyesore.
Put it in next doors garden in the middle of the night and claim no knowledge of it "
Like a Garden Gnome |
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We get them, with an awful megaphone noise. I'd prefer people with limited money to club together and sell their combined scrap, so that the overall Carbon footprint is lower, than a team of trucks driving around all day. |
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"They are just trying to make a living...and in our case we liked the idea of not going to the tip"
Yeah, but when they take things off your drive that were not meant for them, it becomes a little bit irksome. Technically it's trespassing, but they seem to get away with it  |
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"Or a pig bin man
What's one of those???
It could just be because we were in a rural area. Everyone had a bin outside the back door to put waste food in. The local pig farmer came once a week and collected it to feed his pigs. I suspect its illegal now. "
Pig swill, hog swill, hogwash is kitchen refuse used to feed pigs.[2]
Historically pig farmers arranged collection of swill, e.g. by means of swill bins. The grease was skimmed off the swill tanks and sold for further processing, while the remaining swill was processed into pig food.
During World War II collection of pig swill was a nationwide campaign in Great Britain.[3]
During the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak it was thought that unprocessed pig swill was a key link in the chain of the infection, and it was banned in Great Britain. In 2003 the ban was expanded to the whole European Union.[4]
There is now significant research[5] and support from farmers[6] for a return to feeding swill to pigs, not only as a way to reduce pig feed costs but also to reduce demands on agricultural land for pig |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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"They are just trying to make a living...and in our case we liked the idea of not going to the tip
Yeah, but when they take things off your drive that were not meant for them, it becomes a little bit irksome. Technically it's trespassing, but they seem to get away with it "
I imagine it is yeah, but I was happy mine went. I wouldn't leave anything else on the drive anyway, what do you leave on yours? |
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"Or a pig bin man
What's one of those???
It could just be because we were in a rural area. Everyone had a bin outside the back door to put waste food in. The local pig farmer came once a week and collected it to feed his pigs. I suspect its illegal now.
Pig swill, hog swill, hogwash is kitchen refuse used to feed pigs.[2]
Historically pig farmers arranged collection of swill, e.g. by means of swill bins. The grease was skimmed off the swill tanks and sold for further processing, while the remaining swill was processed into pig food.
During World War II collection of pig swill was a nationwide campaign in Great Britain.[3]
During the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak it was thought that unprocessed pig swill was a key link in the chain of the infection, and it was banned in Great Britain. In 2003 the ban was expanded to the whole European Union.[4]
There is now significant research[5] and support from farmers[6] for a return to feeding swill to pigs, not only as a way to reduce pig feed costs but also to reduce demands on agricultural land for pig "
Thank you Mr T. I guess it would also make use of food left overs |
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"not seen one for years or a toffee apple man... I used to help a guy on his paraffin round as a 13 year old though"
I'd forgotten about paraffin being delivered. Up until I was about 9 a man used to sell fruit and veg from the back of his horse and cart. He kept the horse in his back garden, I still walk past it now and again and can't believe that poor horse was kept in such a tiny space. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Someone mentioned toffee apple man. Our local one used to park his bike outside of my kids school every day from 3pm! Good tatics for his little business I suppose.
I've put a leather sofa bed, wardrobe and a desk out the front of my house. Good furniture but I upgraded so no tat here. Yet no one took it! I called some charity shops to come and take it. They said their shops were already full. I had to pay the council nearly £30 to pick it all up. I bet they just dumped it! |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"Or a pig bin man
What's one of those???
It could just be because we were in a rural area. Everyone had a bin outside the back door to put waste food in. The local pig farmer came once a week and collected it to feed his pigs. I suspect its illegal now. "
It is indeed illegal to feed pigs swill which is the waste food cooked up again. A workmate used to keep pigs and he had an old boiler which used to feed steam into big tanks. He`s get waste food from hotels and schools and cook it for his pigs. They made wonderful bacon!
Locally, waste food is collected from the roadside and goes to an "in vessel composter" to be processed. |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
A good friend of mine had a washing machine on her driveway. She just spotted a couple of guys (who turned out to be Polish) loading it into a van. She ran after them screaming "My washing machine!! You owe me £20!" They paid her, much to her amusement because it was completely scrap! |
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