We've found some pretty random stuff at the local tip shop over the last few years. It's become our favourite place. Most of the people who work there know us now, and have some idea of what we're doing. We're sure we aren't the only ones, but it's a nice sort of atmosphere.
We've bought a stack of timber...
Tiles...
Pavers...
Loads of barbed wire...
Kyle found an old leather punching bag - I don't think he plans to use it, he just likes how it looks...
But the weirdest one yet was this piece of timber...
It's almost 2m long, just less than 1m wide, and about 10cm thick. It has a little rot on the other side, but we're not too worried as it's just the heartwood that's crumbled. We're not exactly sure, but as it took 4 people and a forklift to get it into our van we think it weighs somewhere between 200 and 300kg. Three of us got it out ok (Kyle and I mostly, but assisted by my sister Rachael), because we drove the van right up to the shipping container and just sort of pushed it along the ground on it's side. I'm not really sure how we're going to get it to wherever we're going to use it.
To give you some idea, though, it was a bit of a wet day when we took it to the property, and we weren't paying close enough attention, so we ended up getting bogged when we first arrived. After much messing around with bricks and timber offcuts trying to un-bog ourselves...
... eventually we had the bright idea of taking the big lump of timber out of the back, and all of a sudden we weren't bogged anymore!
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