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I've noticed a few reoccurring items on Craigslist that might be worth the effort of retrieving.
Hot tubs need a trailer or pickup truck while trampolines I have gotten a lot if use out of.
Playsets...there are 3 if them up for offer on my local Craigslist  right now.
I've erected a playset as a job before but never disassembled one.
It seems like it might easy enough and yield lots of material.
Does anyone have experience harvesting this resource?
 
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I have harvested all three. I like that word harvested.

I've had a few play sets that were part of demolition projects. The important thing is you don't have to completely disassemble. Just break them down far enough that they can be transported. It's better to make a couple trips with partially assembled stuff, than to try to break it down completely, especially if any of the connections are getting rusty. And don't worry about it not being brand new. Your kids are going to outgrow this thing in just a few years and you may be looking to give it away again.

We got a really big trampoline, that provided plenty of fun and danger for my kids.

Hot tubs are a great resource but you will eventually I have a big chunk of unwanted fiberglass to deal with.

Since you're getting the play set, you might as well go all out and get a playhouse. They come available for free and can usually be dealt with on a flat deck truck. I've transported three of them and each time they were tipped into the back of a truck on end, or slid off of a raised platform in order to travel upright. A crane would be ideal.
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Now my Playhouse story. When I first started doing demolition, there was another guy in the business who stole some shit from me on a few occasions. So, I bided my time and eventually a really nice Playhouse came up at one of his jobs. 8 a.m. on Easter Sunday morning 1996 seemed like the perfect time to sneak in and grab it. The kids had a lot of fun, and I got to point out to the yard and tell this story, at least 100 times. :-) Revenge :-)
 
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I happened to get two free identical swing sets:
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For those interested, there are female kiwi vines on either side and a male at the back. We're facing more or less north and the center bed under it is garlic, the north-east corner is lovage, south west corner is kale and south east of the frame is walking onion. There are some native/naturalized bulbs at the back. The soil here is *very* thin so I've been trying to slowly build it since this bed went in about 5 years ago. The kiwi looks happy, but doesn't produce, which may be due to the large cedar in the background which is also overhead. I haven't had the time to try and move or root the kiwi, but so long as it's producing biomass, I will leave it be.
 
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