Reply To: Outdoor kitchen

  • DeepSouthBamaGRITS

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    February 8, 2023 at 3:25 am

    @Emil I hear ya on ALL of that. I found out roadside trash pick up day for ritzy areas and there for a while I would go see what I could find. Usually spring time when folks were doing SPRING CLEANING or fall and around the holidays. Some folks just have more money than they know what to do with and throw away perfectly good stuff. Either because it is no longer a fad or they changed decor or tearing down buildings/sheds they no longer wanted. I have found so much lumber that looked almost brand new. Just had to take out nails but hey, I can do that for the lumber. Found a 5 gallon Shop Vac with all the accessories that didn’t look like it had been used but a couple of times. I cleaned it up good & it wouldn’t turn on. I listened for a hum to see if it was getting power but no hum. Went and bought a 99cent on/off toggle switch & put it on and it fired right up. Found a generator. Looked like it had never been used. Brought it home & it would crank but wouldn’t generate power. It had reversed polarity. Just hooked a corded drill to it & turned it on IN REVERSE, ran for a couple of minutes. Turned it off, cranked the generator and yep, it was now generating power. I could go on & on with the great finds I’ve gotten just being on the watch out for stuff on the roadside (also that has blown off trucks along the interstate!!) Got 8 brand new rolls of R-19 insulation that had evidently blown off someone’s truck. I pulled over and waited a bit to see if someone was going to the next exit to turn around. No one ever came back for it so I loaded it all up & insulated part of the new addition I was building. I have found perfectly good tarps, a big trucker tarp, 5 gallon buckets galore, coolers. Just gotta keep your eyes open. One mans trash is another mans treasure!