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| For folks who like trying new things and serious physical labor, Habitat for Humanity is ideal. They work with volunteers and so are patient with the volunteers and provide good training as needed. We pretty much finished up squaring up one side of this duplex and putting in the second floor joists. It was a great bunch of folks shown here and below. |
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| That helped motivate me to contact the Restore about drving their truck for donation pick ups. Jane scheduled Eben to drive with me and another person as crew (Etan's wrist was recovering). As I was headed there I had to wait for a train which passes just behind the Restore (it is in a VERY commercial location). Those are are shown above along with Etan in the truck driver's seat. He drove out and I drove back. Here is the load we picked up. We pick up appliances, doors, windows and miscellaneous construction supplies. They mostly sell the supplies and use the funds to support the construction of new houses with new materials. When we got back, Jane and Eben talked about how things went (below). After that I went out with my own crew, sometimes Ken, Peter, or Ron. Peter was doing community service and that was his last day (at least for a while). He is a crew lead at a rehabilitation project in downtown Portland that we often walk by during our work break (as we eat lunch at our desks). We stopped by to see how a stained glass window looked (it was too broken up to sell), but I got these pictures of their site (also below). |
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| Above are pictures of Peter's work site. They are really careful to sort their waste so taht very little of it goes to land filles. On Saturday's we usually drop by 'Metro' which is the city dump (or more properly transfer station). It is in a commercial district just off the Willomette River. It has the usual pungent odor of a transfer station, but there is also a 'hazardous waste' facility. Here is the main transfer station. |
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| There the collect household items like paint and cleaners. They also look through them and those that are still good are put in bins for us. We put them on pallets and shrink wrap them for the trip back to the store where they are sold. With paint, 'Metro' sometimes even remixes the paint for consistency. They are good for the environment (save on the expense of transporting and processing them) and a real bargain. Things like car wax and cleaners are amazing bargains, too. Here is the truck with a loaded pallet and now empty bin. They have a fork lift which they use to load the pallet on our truck (short video) and then we have a pallet jack to move it to the back corner making room for our other pick ups. Also below is the back side of the 'hazardous waste' facility with the other side as the drive through section where people drop off their old house hold items. They enter from the right of the picture and then drive through and around the left side of the picture. |
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This page was last updated on September 24, 2007.
