Minor Gloat

Solid find there, Charlie!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

nice score, man!

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

way cool !

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

”Some of the neighbors did think I looked a little nuts lugging this down the block, though. :-) ” - Charlie

Charlie, Your neighbors probably thought you were looting :^D

Looks like it could be useful for a lot of things. Way to go!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

That’s a great find! A little extra storage is always welcome – room for more toys!

-- http://www.north40custom.com -- http://north40studios.etsy.com --

Yep, all dumpster divers are welcome!! Atta Boy, Charlie. ” Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do or do without!!”

-- Thos. Angle

Still think about your story about pulling and straightening the nails from the firewood, Thos.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I wondered where my wife put my favorite cabinet. Good find Charlie. Might be a good place to store your drill bits, hand planes, box hinges, etc. Anxious to see what it turns out to be.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

good save.
this is a beautiful cabinet

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Could be that the people cleared a room of furniture to paint and you thought it was trash..hehe. Great find!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

that’s funny, Miles… reminds me of a story my friend, a city worker told: people were moving on the same day as the yearly junk collection day—everything sitting at and near the curb went, including their large cabinet tv and sofas.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

There’s a WalMart ad running nowadays around here… Dad is helping his son move out of the house, carries a box of the kid’s CDs to the car, but forgot the keys, so he puts the box down on the sidewalk behind the car.

While he is inside getting the keys, a garbage truck pulls up, takes the trash, including the boxes of CDs.

Parting shot of the dad pushing a cart 1/2 full of CDs down the WalMart aisle, with the son picking CDs from the racks…

Moral of the story? Being a trash collector has its benefits ;)

-- Dekker - http://www.WoodworkDetails.com/Blog/MNagy/

Miles, it’s funny but a very clear ettiquette developed around these parts after Hurricane Katrina. If you put something out on the house side of the front sidewalk, it means you are just storing it there temporarily while you’re doing some work. But anything you put on the street side of the sidewalk is fair game for scavengers. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

That’s a nice little cabinet. Strange we live in a world where we’d just throw it away.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

another moral of the story ?? ....... always jog on trash day !

Nice find! Mr.Trim…good life lesson!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

A month or so ago I passed the building dumpster and spotted what looked like a cheap pine rocker with a bad coat of white paint. I figured I could refinish it and maybe get a few bucks for it, honing my finishing skills in the process. When I picked it up, it had to be the daggone heaviest pine in the world. On closer look, it was solid white oak that some … unthinking person … had painted white, covered the leather upholstery with a [lousy … I’m being polite] fabric, gotten tired of, and tossed. Except for the paint and [lousy] fabric, it’s in perfect shape. I told my dentist, and he admitted to being a deep dumpster diver, and knocked $20 off my bill when I agreed to let him know about anything good I see that I don’t want myself. When I refinish the rocker, I’m keeping it. I think from the way the drop seat is made that it may be an antique, but it doesn’t even need regluing, and the fact that the ugly paint was slopped on right over varnish will make removal easy. Definitely a keeper.

-- Hibernicvs

Cool! Be sure and post it when you’re done.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Well spotted. And some plus points against your carbon footprint having saved it from a hole in the ground! We don’t call ‘em dumpsters here. We have ’skips’, so I suppose a nice alliterative term in the UK would be ‘Skip Scavenging’

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

Awesome save Charlie! The other neighbors were just upset that you got there first.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

You probably looked funny continuing your jog with the cabinet strapped to your back.

But a good way to burn off extra calories.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

You’re not kidding, Karson. I picked it up to test the weight…figured it at 40 lbs. or so, and figured lugging it down about 10 houses would be no big deal. But due to the awkward shape, my arms and fingers were burning by the time I made it home!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"