Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

For $50 & another $50 in parts (starter drive & idler pulley) & I now have this...

I really wish I took a pic of this beforehand - it really looked like it was ready for the scrapyard - I kid you not, a real "POS"!!! It has a 44" cut, 5 speed, 16hp Twin Briggs (NOT an OHV)....

Marty

 917 prefix. I looked at one. AYP/Roper/Frigidare/EYP/EHP. They do look a lot like an MTD. Somebody's camera was working.

PSSSST!!!
Hey Marty.....look.
The mother load.
Everything left of the empty row is what we have scrapped out in the last 6 weeks.
I am sure that there are a few in the pile that you could turn into serviceable machines.
Just goes too show what a wasteful society we live in.
Keep up the good work.

Hey,
That one with the yellow wheels is mine.

Hey,
You jerks left it out in the rain! No wonder it's no more good!

Saturn driving, Wild Turkey drinking, rip-off artists. I guess you want me to pay storage now too?

This treatment is disgraceful, I'm taking my business elsewhere.

Can you see why this pull rope won't go back in before I go?

Sorry Rob.....
It's company policy that we seperate the MTD, AYP, and Murrays from the other products.

sheesh no wonder mowers last longer up here .we actually mow the lawn not concrete

and you even put passenger snowblowers on them ,must be auxillary power.

say Lint you still want to come up and do some fishing.

the bass are up to 5 lbs now and are kinda sassy,and did i mention the fishing hole is about 50 yards from the shop.

ill put some beer in the fridge for you.

later chris

Chris wrote: "say Lint you still want to come up and do some fishing."
Does a bear like too take a sh!t in the woods?
(You bet I do, Chris! Only 5 more months before I get my week off and head North of 40.)

If you guys think that is all the junk that one little shop can produce......You should see the saws, blowers and trimmers that go directly into the dumpster. (I wont name names.)
And....We cant just blame the manufactures for the pile....most of the stuff could have another 5-10 years of life if people would just do some basic maintainence.

buttlint wrote:
Segregation!

I'm calling Jesse.

robmints wrote:
Funny you should say that.
We have a guy that buys the lot and sells them in the inner-city.
He puts together what he can too make complete machines...and breaks the rest down into used parts.
It's all part of the motown food chain.

Lint,
Nice to see local entrepreneurship, makes you think there is hope after all. Scrap brings a good price now a days. The Chinese are buying up everyting they can get, and selling it back to mostly us, value added. We let them do it using this crazy exchange rate based on the chicoms manipulating their currency. Did I mention the GM plant in Baltimore closed after almost 70 years on Friday.

Fords selling junk bonds.
I'm so glad I finished school...TV dinners by the pool.