A good day at the post office

[mark]

Yesterday I loaded the 4yr old up and drove to the post office. Waiting for me was a really big box. I put it in the car we drove home. As we went over a bridge I noticed something big and blue in the wash*. We turned around parked and trudged down the bank. It was a perfectly usable 50 gallon water barrel.

SO now I have a much needed large reservoir for my classroom hydroponics garden, and in the box was a.......Perfectly usable Kodak 2-d 8x10.

SOrry Jim, I just could not find the time to rebuild the junker I bought off you and this was one hell of a deal.

*A wash is another word for a dry Arroyo, A dry creek bed, A really deep ditch

 

[highpeak]

Did you see anybody waiving a wand or something?

What a lucky find!

 

[darinwc]

Great find mark!.
One day i was at a local photo store looking for a lensboard for a crown graphic. The sales rep was a bit clueless and came back from the storeroom with a 4x5 graflock back. I told him that wasnt what I was looking for, but asked how much it was anyway. At $20, I had to get it.
Another time I was at a surplus electronic store. I noticed an odd item, a panoramic security camera. After opening it up, I found out that it was actually made for 31mm x 120mm exposures on 35mm unperforated long rolls. The camera was unusable, but it had an Ilex 65mm wide angle lens similar to a super angulon. Took me years to find an ilex #1 shutter for it. But at $30 for the whole unit, I was extremely happy.

Now i've heard people find great deals at thrift stores, but I've never found anything good in the thrift stores around me. And i go like once a week.

Ive never thought to look in the drainage ditches though. I will have to add that to my usual rounds. Who knows what I will find!

 

[raucousimages]

Be very careful. Abandoned drums and barrels are often abandoned for a reason. Recycling a contaminated drum is an expensive task so they are dumped. We had a loading dock with barrels to recycle heavy metals (batteries) and someone dumped a new looking plastic barrel on us thinking no one would notice. Salt Lake police found it was used to transport Bio-Hazard waste of some sort. The previous owner had dumped several of them in the city instead of paying the recyceling fee.

 

[mark]

This was water. I am 99% positive. More than half the population in the community I live in has no running water and haul these containers all over in their pickups.. I can see why it was dumped and I would have gotten rid of it too. The holes on the top where a pump would be inserted or a cap put on are worn down and chipped up. If this held somethng besides water they did one hell of a job cleaning it before dumping it. There is no oder, or residue.

 

[rbarker]

. . . *A wash is another word for a dry Arroyo, A dry creek bed, A really deep ditch

If a long depression in the earth is called a wash, why isn't a slight ridge called a dry?