My workshop is a miracle of recycling!

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So, a chap I know had to move from where he was living and lying in his yard was a prefab garage stacked on pallets. "Can I have that or are you taking it with you?" I enquired. I can't remember how many trips it took me to move it in a small van and it lay around my yard for a few years. Then I put it up but no roof panels. Well, there I was driving past the old post office that had just finished being converted and they were taking down the metal sheets that they had used to shutter it up with. These were square section corrugated and plastic coated so I knew they'd make excellent roofing sheets. Well I managed to blag them, just enough for the roof of my workshop. Picked up an old bed frame for angle iron to weld onto the steel roof trusses to strengthen them a door from the local tip and the workshop was water-tight. Few weeks later, I'm driving past a petrol station that's closed down and lo and behold there's a skip full of stuff. First thing was an old salt bin, that I use now for storing logs, I pulled away loads of bricks and miraculously underneath where fluorescent lights and to my amazement the tubes still intact! Light switches, sockets, and heavy duty sockets for welder and wiring were easy to find as was armoured cable to run power up to it, though I had to buy the consumer unit. Next I came by steel work benches and a sheet of stainless to go a'top finishing it off when I was given a large Record, quick release vice. Since then I have added a Pillar drill, a fly press, a metal lathe and filing cabinets for card files made excellent tool stores. A band-saw, fretsaw, wood lathe, wood vice and thicknesser. Gradually I collected small tools both hand and power most also being acquired free What remarkable projects have you undertaken in which recycling has played a significant part all the best, urban