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

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!