How common is this?

[dnb]

I was working late last year with an elderly couple when their son arrived. The conversation got around to my FC and the son than proceeded to tell me a story I perhaps didn't really want to hear.
His father in law has recently passed away and he is sorting out the property.
His father in law was a mad collector and a Holden fanatic, while the son in law has no interest in cars at all. (Falcon driver)
He has taken, he estimates, about 5 ton of "rubbish" to the tip. Included was 50 plus Air Chief Holden radios, about the same number of old bakerlite mantle and cabinet radios and an array of Holden bits and pieces. He thinks all the Holden parts were pre 1960...
He estimates he has removed about a third of the stuff and has promised to let me look in the next shed before he removes anything else.
I just hope all the best parts weren't in the first shed...
Darcy

[mc54]

Darcy

I used to work at a garbage dump and it is more common than you would think. Someone dies, the grieving family is left to sort through their belongings.
If the person happened to be a collector of things, it is easier and less stressful for the family and friends to just load everything into the trailer without
even looking at what's there and take it to the tip. Gold, antiques, jewelry etc. It has all been found in these types of loads.

Mike

[REDMR2RED]

Hey, Darcy do you need a hand   

I'm just round the corner from you.     Red

[EffCee]

I was lucky some time ago, I was offered some parts from a deceased estate, similiar to what was described above and went and collected them, I filled the trailer and while I was there, I was offered some more. I went to collect the remainder the following weekend, only to find that someone had said "They are Worthless" and had everything dumped, the whole garage had been cleaned out, Tools, parts everthing, there was even a lathe that had been dumped.

I was lucky to get what parts I did get.

[ratbox]

friend of mine is on to some type of hot holden 6 not sure what yet but it has cross flow head and injection, a scrap dealer was cleaning out a place where the old fella had died, he chucked heaps of stuff away the motor would have gone aswell except the old lady mentioned it was an old racing motor