One of the more less-desirable parts of my job is doing on-site survey work for three different landfills - four different times this summer, I've found myself walking on top of the active garbage face. You really start to evaluate your career choices when you can tell by look what areas of the garbage can support your weight, and what areas you will sink through.
Anyway, first thing this morning, I'm on site at one of the landfills, waiting for a contractor to show up and build a containment berm alongside the active waste cell. They're in the process of some major changes, including building a new transfer station, and they'll be tearing down their old office/maintenance shed in the very near future. In preparation for that, they've been cleaning up the scrap metal pile and white goods (consumer appliances -- fridges, freezers, etc.) area. We're standing there talking this morning, when at the edge of the pile I spot...a slightly dented, but still shiny, full-size keg.
Casually bring it up to the operator that "Heck, I just paid someone for a used keg just like that!" He looked at it, and told me it had been sitting in that pile for over a year, and if I wanted this one, to go ahead and take it with me when I left.
Don't NEED another keg right now - I *JUST* finished my first keggle conversion two months ago. But with another keg in reserve, plans for a brew stand are starting to move to the forefront of my mind. It just happens that one of the guys in my brew club owns a manufacturing plant, and is willing to have his guys fabricate stuff for us at or near his cost...
Anyway, first thing this morning, I'm on site at one of the landfills, waiting for a contractor to show up and build a containment berm alongside the active waste cell. They're in the process of some major changes, including building a new transfer station, and they'll be tearing down their old office/maintenance shed in the very near future. In preparation for that, they've been cleaning up the scrap metal pile and white goods (consumer appliances -- fridges, freezers, etc.) area. We're standing there talking this morning, when at the edge of the pile I spot...a slightly dented, but still shiny, full-size keg.
Casually bring it up to the operator that "Heck, I just paid someone for a used keg just like that!" He looked at it, and told me it had been sitting in that pile for over a year, and if I wanted this one, to go ahead and take it with me when I left.
Don't NEED another keg right now - I *JUST* finished my first keggle conversion two months ago. But with another keg in reserve, plans for a brew stand are starting to move to the forefront of my mind. It just happens that one of the guys in my brew club owns a manufacturing plant, and is willing to have his guys fabricate stuff for us at or near his cost...
