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Disposing of a mattress is no easy task. No one wants them, even if they are clean and not much used. Most of them end up in "landfill", but I have another better idea - donate them to Mattress Massacre Park.
I have just spent an entire afternoon swopping around heavy unwieldy mattresses in confined
spaces and am now fully prepared to vent my frustration at the local Mattress Massacre Park.
This is a new facility where for a small fee you can attack a mattress with a chainsaw, savaging it into ragged lumps, then follow up this furious assault by incinerating the remains with a military grade flame thrower. Full protective wear is provided, and you even have the option of dressing up as "leatherface".
Cutting a mattress in half with a chainsaw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSodXEsIL4U
too careful for me... rip into it! [xenzag, Jul 17 2023]
Re-using used hotel Soap Bars
https://thehustle.c...of-used-hotel-soap/
Simple recycling, but apparently there's a lot of bars around [mylodon, Jul 17 2023]
Brilliant ending to a very clever film
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTNSTO49G8o
[xenzag, Jul 17 2023]
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Violent and destructive. [+] |
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Promotes a healthy outlet for anxiety and anger. [+] |
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Actually, I'm not sure a chainsaw would cope well with a mattress. The springs are usually metal, and might blunt the blades or get wedged in the mechanism. |
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I wonder if a samurai sword would do it. |
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I'm sure there must be some kind of chainsaw blades that will take care of any metal springs. |
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I'll pay double for the add-on option of a voice actor screaming in mattressese... |
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//I'm sure there must be some kind of chainsaw blades that will take care of any metal springs.// |
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Not really, no. Almost all cutting tools require some amount of,
what's the words?,
stability of the thing being cut I guess, to make the teeth of the blades work. |
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Using a chainsaw to cut into a spring mattress would be a disaster.
A tooth would catch on a spring and try to drag the saw out of your hands.
Even a Sawzall, (or reciprocating saw) will not cut through anything which can wiggle and pinch the blade. |
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Your best bet would be a gas axe with a carbide blade. |
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//Your best bet would be a gas axe with a carbide blade// This idea just keeps getting better. |
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Ew. You *do* know what sort of filth is soaked and dried into used mattresses right? I'd need a bleach bath after this. Sorry Xen, I hate boning your ideas but this just grosses me out too much! |
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My wife and I took on 30 a room motel which had been abandoned for 3 years prior to taking possession while the property was the town's free landfill. |
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Don't get me started on mattresses. |
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One previous tenant, I swear on my eyesight, stuffed everything in the room with their used soap bars.
Even the chairs. The back and arms stuffed with used cakes, they had even removed the staples from the bottom of the chairs and then re-stapled them with dinner plates heaped with used soap inside. |
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I wondered if there was a term for such a proclivity.
I called it soaprophelia. |
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No, I'm not kidding.
Were they worried about someone getting their DNA or something? Mosquitoes? Voodoo? |
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No idea, but finding that furniture was one of the more messed up things we've come across here. |
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Perhaps the voices in his head told him to return all the soap he stole from hotels over the years. |
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This place had been turned into a, (really bad), old folks home for some time before being abandoned. |
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That room was some elderly person's apartment.
They just horded their used soap. |
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I've never heard or read of such a thing so I thought you guys would find it interesting. |
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Maybe there's a word for it. |
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[2 fries] //what's the words?// - 'homogeneity' |
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[2 fries] I suppose of all the things you found stuffed into mattresses that's not a bad one but still... that sounds like a new area for psychological exploration. |
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Maybe it was a hotel employee wanting to get closer to the guests? |
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I'm surprised that no one has thought of manufacturing a mattress featuring a built in "bars of soap storage recepticle ". I can envisage the soap bring loaded in like shotgun cartridges - a most satisfying process. This is a complete idea in itself, but it's here as an annotation to complete Two Fries startingly excellent tale of discovery. |
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Limiting your working mattress supply to include only the types containing foam, fabric and perhaps twine reinforcement would prevent the chainsaw snag hazard, Shirley. |
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Storing the other kind away in a corner until lightsabers become a thing would be an option. |
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How about a water-jet cutter? You could even use a bleach solution in it. |
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"You could even use a bleach solution." |
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You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. |
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It HAS to be a chain saw, wielded in the manner of old leatherface himself (see video) |
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I think you'd need to identify the materials of the mattress before attacking it.
Inner-sprung -> no chainsaws
"Memory foam" -> no fire (they can explode when on fire)
Most synthetics & foams -> breathing apparatus when burning
But once you know what you're playing with, bring the chaos! |
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I seldom "do" practical on the Halfbakery. |
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// memory foam... explosions... // |
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Uh, can someone loan me another bun? Mine got used. |
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// I seldom "do" practical on the Halfbakery. // |
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My friend's house caught fire, started by a bedroom heater. Pieces/evidence of mattress memory foam were found in the ceiling/attic, quite widely spread. Maybe not an "explosion" by the technical definition, but certainly very energetic. |
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I wonder if those pieces were simply carried on the drifting smoke... hmm... |
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That's a really interesting link, [mylodon]. Thank you |
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