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Post by steev on Sept 17, 2014 4:03:52 GMT -5
There you go! There's so much stuff these days that people have been taught is "trash" (unusable).
I park my utility trailer in the lot of an arborist service, where they park their vehicles and dump their waste wood, free to good homes, which they'd have to pay $130/ton to dump; right now, there's a ten-foot aisle between 4' piles of wood; comes temps in the 40's all that will be gone <2 weeks. I don't care; I high-grade it for oak, year-round.
There's the money economy, and then there's the resource economy; riches are where you find them! The trick is to find them and see them for what they are, not what they've been labelled; even people fit into this paradigm.
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Post by steev on Oct 30, 2014 19:09:18 GMT -5
Scored nearly half a ton of marble and granite scraps, some nearly too large for me to lift; I'm thinking a multi-colored granite patio.
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Post by synergy on Oct 30, 2014 20:19:49 GMT -5
That will afford you all kinds of opportunities to do some beautiful mosaic type designs for hearths, doorsteps, furniture tops . Nice score : )
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Post by steev on Oct 31, 2014 1:41:40 GMT -5
It's a tad raggedy/freeform for furniture tops, but the marble will make nice noses for steps, being planks, and the granite will be very good patio paving, stunning when wet (assuming it rains). I do love brick, tile, and stone; they don't rot while you figure out what to do with them. I'm amazed how much of this stuff is discarded. Guess I just don't understand the value of uniformly monochromatic installations. Certainly, I understand the esthetic impact, but Nature doesn't give us many mono-cultural environments, so I suspect the impulse to uniformity is just Human desire to "be in charge". As if!
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Post by synergy on Nov 4, 2014 13:21:28 GMT -5
Not junk , but we have a plethora of ladders accumulated at the farm from my father and my son had a painting business , I seem to have at least 8 aluminum ladders so I am looking at ways to actually put them to a more optimum use while storing them. For example I am chaining one across the entrance to the carport where I park my ride on mower and the carport entrance where our tractor is so it is apparent to anyone that stealing anything from here is going to take more time and effort than other places . Our farm is not far out from the suburbs and while I have not had a problem with theft here yet, it seems to be ever present in our community so I am looking at our efficiencies and protecting the place against crime at the same time . A few are also going in the barn again hung horizontally as gates in and around the barn apron area to readily put in place to limit access to some areas for the horses. Other repurposed thrift shop items, plastic coated wire baskets,the kind that suspend under a shelf, picked up at the thrift shop used vertically make great hay racks for my rabbitry to conserve feed from being bedding . The more I can make life good for the rabbits, the more they make life good for me  |
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Post by steev on Nov 4, 2014 20:43:26 GMT -5
Went by the marble/granite place on spec; they'd re-filled the sidewalk selection with many choice slabs. While I was high-grading a truckload, the owner came out to chit-chat and trade phone numbers, in case the gate is closed, so I can call him to let me in. Once again, a happy dumper and a happy junkster. I live in a rich and varied ecosystem. Freeconomics is the wave of the future and I love to surf it. Cowabunga!
Just figured out what to do with counter-scraps ~1 1/2' wide by 2' deep with a bullnose on one narrow edge: seats and backs for the bench around the raised fishpond. Koi ahoy!
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Post by steev on Nov 5, 2014 21:21:45 GMT -5
A housemate asked where the stone came from and what it's for; I told him; he opined that maybe I should get a house on the farm first; so unclear on the concept: the stone is available free now and will not rot, which is not likely to be the case (free-wise), if I blow it off until I've built the house. He thinks very linearly, while I'm more fungal: diverging hyphae rejoining, when conditions are suitable.
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Post by 12540dumont on Nov 6, 2014 16:32:57 GMT -5
Plus Steev, you have lots of room for a patio, where ever you want one. Look nice under the arbor Sorry your roomie must be slow. Women always created linens and collected things for housekeeping even before they were women, married or had a house. When I was 16 I bought myself a good set of pots and pans and then silverware. For Christmas I asked my aunts for measuring cups and spoons and bowls. I lived at home, I went to school, I worked nights. I did not need any of this stuff, but when I left home at 17, I had everything I needed to cook. Last week we hit Goodwill to buy more plates. We were down to about 4....I could have bought a new set, but why not reuse what's already here? |
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Post by templeton on Nov 11, 2014 17:02:31 GMT -5
Last week we hit Goodwill to buy more plates. We were down to about 4.... Moussaka? Dolmades? You been doing the greek plate smashing routine, Holly?  |
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Post by copse on Nov 11, 2014 18:30:37 GMT -5
Planted out four spaghetti squash around my fig "tree", but the problem is that the blackbirds scratch out everything (including 3 tomato and 6 gherkin seedlings). The netting already kept the chickens away. So I did my lazy fix of pushing in some prunings I had laying around. Then for good measure, I put peas in there figuring they'd probably help the fig and the squash.  I'm going to see if I can find some more prunings to use in my tomato and gherkin beds. |
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Post by steev on Nov 11, 2014 21:13:02 GMT -5
I've lots of prunings; you're welcome to as much as you can haul off; might want to bring some water; tickle two birds with one feather.
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Post by steev on Nov 11, 2014 22:13:12 GMT -5
Went by the stone-yard on spec; wasn't much on the sidewalk, but they were high-grading their stock, loading their truck; I spoke to the guy in charge, asking when they'd put more out on the street; we discussed what I like and why; he said they'd have a lot on the street in the morning. They're mostly only taking slabs that need a forklift to move; I'm only taking stuff an old guy can move; there's a gray area between (actually largely beautifully colored, but one mustn't be greedy; that hernia surgery was a pain!).
Freeconomics Rule!
I could side raised beds with slabs of marble and granite. Yow! Are we having fun, yet?
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Post by copse on Nov 12, 2014 19:17:22 GMT -5
I've lots of prunings; you're welcome to as much as you can haul off; might want to bring some water; tickle two birds with one feather. It's a deal. But let's make it a little easier, you bring the prunings, you help yourself to the water. |
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Post by steev on Nov 12, 2014 21:01:01 GMT -5
I've lots of prunings; you're welcome to as much as you can haul off; might want to bring some water; tickle two birds with one feather. It's a deal. But let's make it a little easier, you bring the prunings, you help yourself to the water. That's your idea of a deal? |
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Post by steev on Dec 11, 2014 0:24:13 GMT -5
The granitry had put out two crates full of large tile and elliptical sink cut-outs, perfect for stepping-stones; couldn't take it all, knowing I had a huge load of leaf- and bunny-bags that weren't going to get lighter in the rain; I'll go back Monday.
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