I don't get it

[john k]

I took some boxes to the dumpster at work, while there I helped a young employee empty his trash barrel, then he left.   I dug around pulling out a trailer wiring harness I could use.   Underneath a box he dumped, I pulled out an eight by eight square of plywood.  Clamped to the board was this little vise.   2.5 inch wide jaws, original tag, Luther.   Original black japan paint.  No rust ever, nothing broken or repaired.   Was it too small?   Too old, and just useless?  It's getting so I hate to go to work wondering what they are going to toss out next.  It is pretty well known I like old stuff, and have tools in my box that predate most of the help.   I just don't get tossing something like this.   

[oldtools]

Nice find, Lucky you were there to save it...

[bunger]

It's the minimalist attitude in a lot of people. Don't need it now, get rid of it. They don't plan for the future.
Can't have all this "stuff" cluttering up my home, garage, workshop, etc.

Others are obsessed with having everything new and matching. Can't have an odd tool that doesn't go with my shiny set of Craftsman, Snap-on, Mac, etc.

Those types would crap themselves if the saw my garage or basement.

[RedVise]

I love those clamp on vises!!  Nice save !


Brian

[bonneyman]

His loss is your gain! I'd be smiling all the way home with that little cutie in tow.

Good save!

[rusty]

Older , perhaps, than you suspect, PopSci, 1926....

[mrchuck]

You don't know it but your inner sense hearing heard this nice innocent vise.
It was screaming,,,,,"help me,,,,help me, I'm here in the trash and I can't get out"!
You will keep this little vise forever now, because you responded.

[turnnut]

Luther is a nice old vise.

a few years ago, a guywe know would come to the old engine show and set up a table
of goodies for sale, where did he get most of the stuff ???  he would go to his local
trade high school after hours and pick thru the trash hopper.

yes, our tax dollars being wasted.

[Nolatoolguy]

Man, I gotta start checking the dumpster at your work. Looks like your place gets rid of some good stuff.

Nice find, especially with the original paint.

[Billman49]

Just read an article in the Radio Times (UK publication for TV and radio programmes)  for 8-14 March 2014. On BBC4 TV, Thursday 13th at 21:00, was a programme ' WW1's forgotten Photographs' - based on one man's collection. Bob Smethurst was a 'bin man' - emptying dustbins (refuse bins) for Sussex Council   - he 'salvaged' militaria - mainly photogaphs, but also medals, badges etc relating to WW1 and the Boer War (late 19th century) - so much so he now has over 5000 photographs taken in the trenches of Flanders and France... All thrown away as 'rubbish' by householders, often clearing out the estate of an elderly relative....

In this centenary year of the beginning of WW1 maybe time to remember the men and women of all nations involved in this and all subsequent conflicts, and ensure nothing else of this importance is thrown away as valueless.....

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xsrvv (still available to watch on line in the UK for 5 more days - not sure if available in the US)

[scottg]

Because people are idiots. Nothing new there.
   
 Sooner or later, everything there ever was ends up in the dump.  Usually sooner,
 I used to live next door to the dump keeper, or attendant if you like.
 In his yard were 2 Caterpillars, a large loader, 3 backhoes, 3 trucks each over 2 tons.
All ran and worked fine.
  All were brought home from the dump after people tossed them. 

 At my place? My entry hall floor (oak), several pieces of wooden furniture, my bicycle, endless small tools, air compressor, routers, sewing machines,
 wood metal and stone all came from the dump
       and I never hardly go!
  (because I often come home with more than I brought heeheh) 
     I saw a Delta Unisaw at the dump last fall. All it needed was a motor mount and motor.  But it was too heavy to load into my truck alone!

   Whatever people ever had.........
      yours Scott

Bill Johnson, my neighbor used to say (with a wicked twinkle)
 "Hey I just picked up a $700 item today!" (when 700 was a pile of money)
 
  Reach in his pocket and pull out an old set of false teeth............. 
 

[DM11]

Good save. Should be real handy.

[Billman49]

Reduce, reuse, recycle - sadly in the UK all recycling sites are 'managed' and most will not let you take, or even buy, items - even taking items out of builders' skips left on the road can be seen as stealing - the best approach is Freecycle - offer to someone else before it goes to the dump....

[Chillylulu]

.....Those types would crap themselves if the saw my garage or basement.

"Those types" can't see my garage or basement.  Kind of like a forrest for the trees thing!!?!

Chilly