What's the most interesting thing you found in the road?
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The ubiquitous one shoe and bottles of piss are pretty common on today's motorways and roads, the 'one shoe' always makes me smile and wonder how it came to be there.
The most useful thing I ever found was a 22mm spanner.
Today I found this:
Yes it's an engine from a Prius.
It must weigh 40kg and i'll be visiting a scrapyard with it this week - amazed I beat the pie-keys to it!
The most useful thing I ever found was a 22mm spanner.
Today I found this:
Yes it's an engine from a Prius.
It must weigh 40kg and i'll be visiting a scrapyard with it this week - amazed I beat the pie-keys to it!
Edited by Evoluzione on Wednesday 11th December 22:50
Not very interesting but i have retrieved 2 sack barrows from roads after they presumably
"fell off the back of a lorry" or van that somebody didn't secure properly.
I have 1 and my dad has another.
I have left an extremely expensive transmission in the road before,unintentionally.
I may have mentioned that last bit before,many times....
"fell off the back of a lorry" or van that somebody didn't secure properly.
I have 1 and my dad has another.
I have left an extremely expensive transmission in the road before,unintentionally.
I may have mentioned that last bit before,many times....
Evoluzione said:
It must weigh 40kg and i'll be visiting a scrapyard with it this week - amazed I beat the pie-keys to it!
Forgive my ignorance but looking on the net, scrap = about £160/tonne (1000kg)so 160/1000 x 40= £6.40
Look, all I'm saying is with something that valuable lying around in my garage I wouldn't be shouting about it on an open forum....
evo4a said:
Evoluzione said:
It must weigh 40kg and i'll be visiting a scrapyard with it this week - amazed I beat the pie-keys to it!
Forgive my ignorance but looking on the net, scrap = about £160/tonne (1000kg)so 160/1000 x 40= £6.40
Look, all I'm saying is with something that valuable lying around in my garage I wouldn't be shouting about it on an open forum....
so 500/1000 x 40 = £20
If you could be bothered to strip it and seperate the Cu and Fe it could be worth twice that
Good find
A 2T pump truck on dual carriageway, it literaly fell off the back of a lorry about 30 meters in front of me, i kept it in leu of the broken headlight it gave me as it wheeled it's way the wronge way down the road straight at me (road to busy to swerve), jumped ont and threw (well OK i stuggled to load it) it in the back of me pickup.
I did once spot a snap on phillipes screw driver on the middle reservation of the A414, it was 3Am so i stopper ran back and grabbed it i still have it 8 years later, it the only snap on tool i own LoL.
Scrap in London is below £100 a ton at the mo, that would go in as motors and windings which are about £250 a ton at the mo
I did once spot a snap on phillipes screw driver on the middle reservation of the A414, it was 3Am so i stopper ran back and grabbed it
i still have it 8 years later, it the only snap on tool i own LoL.Scrap in London is below £100 a ton at the mo, that would go in as motors and windings which are about £250 a ton at the mo
Edited by S0 What on Monday 9th December 01:08
Edited by S0 What on Monday 9th December 01:09
My wife!
(I may or may not have had something to do with her being abandoned in said road, however I plead extenuating circumstances and as such have no memory for such event apart from remembering such event and pointing it out to her at every opportunity when she borders such extreme behavior that would warrant such abandonment.)
(I may or may not have had something to do with her being abandoned in said road, however I plead extenuating circumstances and as such have no memory for such event apart from remembering such event and pointing it out to her at every opportunity when she borders such extreme behavior that would warrant such abandonment.)
4 foot long dugite on the race track the other day ..
(pic from one of the guys with a go-pro)
http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g326/ss-v_dobr...
(pic from one of the guys with a go-pro)
http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g326/ss-v_dobr...
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