Must be local. Makes me sick when guys here start talking about "dump runs", because our local landfill will NOT allow you to take anything. Something to do with liability. SIL wanted a nice Stainless Steel playground slide that was @ the landfill metal bin, they wouldn't let him have it.
I was watching the "Garage Takeover" on discovery Saturday. While not a bad show, the "crush time" was kinda dumb. They'd take the things the owners considered trash and crush them with a backhoe. While some of it was truly junk some things were perfectly good and could have been sold at a yard sale or given to goodwill.
Why would these drawers have dovetails at the backs of the drawers, particularly oriented to keep the sides pulling away from the back, rather than the other way around? Is this common? If so, why? Is it just to add, um, cachet to a piece of furniture?
The reason I ask is that a friend called me yesterday and asked how to repair a drawer with (apparently) similar construction. It's hard to tell this sort of thing over the phone. I guess the drawer had dovetails at the back of the drawer, and a rabbet joint glued and stapled at the front. Obviously not high-quality stuff. Why put the expensive (and good) joint at the back of the drawer? Thanks.
Our landfill has a sign indicating that taking things from the landfill constitutes theft.
Seems kinda heavy-handed.
I'm not sure that this is driven by liability so much as practicality and safety. At our landfill, the earth-movers are busy filling in not too far from where people are dumping. Given the lack of common sense and common courtesy prevalent in today's society, I can see people getting themselves in the way of the earth movers while trying to pull out that "one really cool thing" they see just before it is about to get buried.
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Ours is at the transfer station, where you empty it into a big compactor trailer, then they haul it out to the actual landfill. They have other containers around for cans, bottles, etc., and a big "pit" to drop the metal stuff into, so there's no big equipment around. They claimed if they let SIL have it and then his kid got hurt on it, he *might* sue, that's why they wouldn't let him have it.
wow.. we encourage "junque-a-teers" here... I'd rather my stuff got reused or sold for scrap then have it in the landfill... we have convoys of folks going by all day... some just for metal, some for appliances, most just for "collectibles"...
Sorry Phil it took so long to get back to you. I made about 20 dt drawers for my kitchen and bath and I put half blind dts on the back and rabbeted on the fronts. Once you have your jig set up it takes only minutes to do all four sides of the drawer. I never considered that the dt on the back to be more expensive in $$$ or time. If you look at some good, antique drawers you'll find dt's on the back... FWIW I saw some on some furniture at the Chicago Art Museum...boy!! did I get yelled at by the guard when she found me pulling out the drawers.
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