My dad rescued this school chair from a skip in the 70s. They were throwing them all out and replacing them with soulless plastic ones5552020 OP t1_jb0p6v2 wrote
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Ok. Lets say you are having the builders in to demolish your old patio and build a new one. They will usually hire a skip and throw all the remains of the old patio in there, hire another guy with a big truck with a crane to haul it away. This doesn’t happen on your side of the pond?
LukeLarsnefi t1_jb17jyr wrote
We call that a roll-off dumpster or roll-off container.
hanimal16 t1_jb19nmn wrote
Yes! We have these. I’ve typically seen one that can be connected to a truck that can haul it away, but yeah this is pretty much the same as what we have in the US.
BurnTheOrange t1_jb1g6ho wrote
In the States a similar activity takes place, but the container and the truck to remove it are differently shaped. The trucks in the States tend to have rollers rather than a crane and the bin is longer and flatter. Seems it is a case of parallel evolution to solving the same problem.
EveInGardenia t1_jb1zh3j wrote
We definitely have that, they just look different and have other names!
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