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

I just got one for a Bolens tractor for under $1 on Ebay. It's 40 minutes from work, so I'll have more invested in the gas to fetch it, than the cost, but won't have to pay shipping. It's a good day

Almost anything's worth a buck. Good job!

Sure is a good day 

Npt quite as good a deal as yours but I got an Ariens ST824 -  with a 3 yo replacement engine - for $212.

$1.00, NICE!!!!!

How much for just one rib??

bontaiJoe wrote:

Excellent snag there BontaiJoe!

What happened to Marty? Must have a cold not to have sniffed that one out first.

Here is what $0.99 bought yesterday. Looks to be in pretty good condition. Now I need to find a tractor to power the thing for $0.99

Here's another bargain for those looking to make a quick job of it...........

Emmo,

Thanks for posting that! I have experienced some winters where that beauty would have been most welcome.

Marty's busy playing with ornaments.......

Frank D.

Joe - GREAT score on that snowblower attachment!  Break out the welder & make it fit!

Frank - That ornament is the only snowblower I've snagged in 2 months (the last being a running, electric start Toro S-620 for $15) I'm going through snowblower withdrawl!!

I've been scouring the papers for deals on snowblowers. Deals are present, but my luck has been poor lately. I call up & we can't meet due to their schedule, so they say they will call back & never do. I've been hounding a lady for a 5 year old, 8hp Sears priced at $50, but she just can't seem to find time for me to come over to pick it up - why advertise then?

I did get a 18hp 46" Murray tractor for FREE 2 weeks ago. Guess my luck ain't too bad...

Marty

for FREE?  Does it work, tell us the story about that one. 

Craiglsit has some good deals in  the Boston area.

AJace wrote:

I checked the newspaper classifieds while at work at 5am & found an ad for a free Murray "riding mower". I called at 7am (the guy was up thankfully!) & he told me its fairly clean but doesn't run, & theres a lawn sweeper included, ALL FOR FREE. I tell him I'll pick it up today at his convenience. I get there & much to my surprise, I find a CLEAN Murray 46" garden tractor with an 18hp, twin cylinder Briggs Stratton, new battery, new starter & solenoid, 2 new extra belts, 2 new extra idler pulleys, & a 38" Agri-Fab lawn sweeper. A bad positive battery cable connection was rectified & now she starts & runs 100%! The brakes didn't work due to mounds of mud & grass caked on the brake unit - I cleaned it, adjusted it & we have brakes. The front wheels were wobbly & loose, and it only needed new wheel bearings (a whopping cost of $15 for all four) to tighten up the front. Wadda ya think?

Marty

Marty,

You could fall into a cesspool and come out smelling like a bouquet of roses.

Will

That's awsome.  You can actually see yourself.  I wish I'd run into those kinds of deals and get some dough out of it.  NJ seems to me like a state that has all kinds of stuff thrown out and people come get it and fix it up.  Tell how much you end up getting for it. 

Marty, you freak me out.

Good on you buddy!

I hope ya gave the guy somethin'.  Sh1t mail him an anonymous check for a hundo if he wouldnt take it.Karma baby!

Majorxlr8n wrote:
So, is that why they call it Freehold?

I haven't had any opertunity to scrounge in all the parts of this country, but NJ sure seems like it has a lot of folks with more money than common sense. It was over 25 years ago when my brother was getting married, and didn't have any money to spare, as he was only 20 and had bought a house and a car. He and I went out during the various local town and township "clean-up" days and basically furnished his entire house, except for the new bed he got as a wedding gift. The northwest corner of the state, specifically near Oldwick and Bedminster is were the Forbes's and Onassis and Rockafeller famiies like to live, and they tend throw out much better stuff than most of the rest of us own. My brother was a painter back then and painted the interior of a 1.3 MILLION dollar barn.... that's in 1970s dollars! They spent over $12,000 on the front door of this barn.... It's a wonderful place to trash hunt.

WOW    I wish stuff popped up like that around here. 

Here's a cool toy........

Or this would be pretty cool too..........

Emmo wrote:
They used these to plow the sidewalks in my home town - Andover, MA. They work very well.....

That Willy Jeep with the snowblower is in my neck of the woods (Easton, PA). Probably a GREAT unit for a big snow storm, but I'd almst hate to use something that rare for fear of breakage.