[XJCountry]

OK, lets hear what your best free stuff has been.

I have a Ridgid cordless hammer drill that was in the trash at an estate sale. this is the same set I have at home and the lady said I could have it. Runs just like a new one.

Other things...

Found lots of tools mowing by the road.

My neighbor Found a cow in the neighborhood. He called the sheriff and they said to keep it. Thats about $1000 around here.

 

[Jeepwm69]

My neighbor Found a cow in the neighborhood. He called the sheriff and they said to keep it. Thats about $1000 around here.

I lol'd at the cow.

When I was in high school I worked at a state university ag experiment station. They had some old 1/4 ton military trailers (rough shape) that were used hauling crap around the site.

My boss at the time was a pretty boy who only cared about appearances, so when he had some foreign dignitaries coming in for a tour he said "Find a place to move that old trailer. It's an eyesore" and when I asked where he wanted it he said "You can have it, just get it out of sight and I never want to see it again."

That place had some of the old Marine Corps mules sitting around too. I never could get anyone to budge on those. They said they were state property and there was no way to get them, so they're sitting in a field rotting away.

I also had my idiot neighbor bitching about her Weber Silver gas grill going "woosh" when started it. I told her it probably just needed a burner, and she said she was just going to get a new one, and that I could have the old one if I wanted it. She went and charged the same grill to her husband at the local hardware store. $700+.... New $14 burner off of Amazon and it works like new. I have a gas grill plumbed into my LNG coming off the house, so I gave the Weber to my parents. Same idiot also had a propane patio heater that wouldn't light. There was apparently a roll over safety device that was malfunctioning. Bypassed it and the thing works great.

A buddy of mine farms (this is the guy with the stinking Rincon). His farmhands were screwing around in both of his work trucks one day, chasing each other down a dirt road. Leading truck was kicking up so much dust that the following truck couldn't see. Leading truck slowed down to turn, following truck smashes into the back end of leading truck, pushing it into a ditch where it rolled over. Nobody hurt, both trucks totaled, and my buddy was PISSED. He had a wheelbarrow air compressor in the back of the truck that rolled and the accident broke the air cleaner, pull start, and gas tank off of the compressor. It sat in his shop for a couple of years and he asked if I wanted it. New gas tank, carb, air cleaner, and pull starter and it fired right up, works great. Has a Honda GX160 engine on it.

 

[mrbb]

man over the yrs I have found ton so of things, from air plane propellers, to dead bodys
found a bunch of cash too over the yrs, never a big amount, but lots of coins and small bills
tools, and live loaded ammo, rather common here
Beer too, for that matter, seem to be the things they loose most
I once found a nice MX bike a few yrs old, too, had the top end GONE on it, sat in woods for a few weeks, then I said, ,WELL, its mine now
fixed it up, and gave it to a buddy's kid for a B day present, very happy kid, ran for yrs!
but I couldn;t even try and name all the things I have found over the yrs, its amazing what people loose while off roading and or hunting,fishing, middle of no where like?
one of the better deals I got recently was 2 yrs ago, at an auction, I picked up a very nice 20 ft enclosed trailer for a grand, and two weeks later sold it for 3500
wish more deals like that happened more often, but I'll take em any time I can get em LOL

 

[XJCountry]

I have the same problem of having found so much stuff it is hard to remember it all.

Got a kawasaki bayou from my cousin about 12 years ago (for free). Never could get it to run right and a carb was $400 at the time. I took it apart and ended up giving it away. Keep in mind this was before the age of cheap carbs on amazon.

I got a Bass boat for $300 off of craigslist. spent a couple hundred redoing the carpet and seats and it hauls the family around great. Has a 70 HP tohatsu motor on it.

 

[XJCountry]

In college I needed a couch. Was walking with a buddy of mine back from eating at Eskimo Joes and saw a couch sitting on the curb. Asked the people in the house if I could have it and they said sure. They were nice and offered to haul it to my place in their truck, after they saw that my buddy and I were going to carry it the 2 blocks to my apartment.

It was in from smokers house and smelled like it. Took the covers off the cushions and brought them home to wash at my parents. The first wash turned the water black...I mean, Louisiana swamp mud black. The second wash was a lighter shade of black. The fourth wash was only grey so I called it good and dried them. I left the couch in the apartment when I moved. I still itch if I sleep on a couch to this day...

 

[XJCountry]

Got a 1989 Ford Escort for free from a family member as long as I fixed it. Found a shop to put a clutch in for not much so I jumped on it.

On the drive back from the shop I was rear ended by a woman driving an illegally tagged (and uninsured) pickup. Totaled that little car.

I negotiated with my insurance and settled for $1800 on the uninsured motorist medical portion. The Girls husband owned a motorcycle shop and paid me $1200 for the car. This was in 2002 or 2003. No too bad for an old junker. Not worth getting in a wreck for, but it got me another car and some tuition money for that semester.

 

[Mossyman]

My brother-in-law’s brother passed away a few years ago and his widow gave me the blue ‘88 Foreman in my profile pic last summer. It had been sitting in the weeds for 4-5 years. With very little effort we got it running and it’s still going strong.

 

[H0nda4trck]

Buddy at work was moving to FL, wanted to but truck here in Tx (so not rust) before moving. He had a 75 Impala 4door wanted $1000.00 paid $350.00. Sold year later for $1000.00 to another coworker with payments. Made a couple then couldn’t make next gave me a Pioneer car radio and 6x9 speaker for $100.00 payment. Next payment was trade Craiger SST rims and tires for my off brand rims on my 75 Camaro. Rear tires where Super 50’s, Front tires were 60’s on 7inch rims. Ran into another friend need a pair of 60’s for his car traded for a new pair of tires to fit 7 inch rims. Made a few more payments then gave me a Honda CB360 motorcycle for the last $150.00 dollar payment. Traded it in on a truck for $400.00.

 

[Bryan]

Oh jeeze im a part time scrapper and junk picker the amount of free stuff I get is unreal. lol

Free 96 hyundai elantra and honda motorcycle from mini storage someone didnt pay so we got it for free.

I got a 2 wheel car hauler for free, just needed to get out of yard.

Power wheel chairs i got free and sold them for a hefty profit.

I was given a free dutchmen pop up camper, used it for 3 years and sold it.

Multiple washers/dryers/lawn mowers/ etc I get for free,I fix em and sell them, easy money

My list can go on and on haha

 

[fishfiles]

I was at a business moving job where the equipment broke loading stuff into 30 yard dumpsters , after fixing the machine I asked if I could look thru the rubbish and found two of these killer aluminum signs behind a cabinet , gave one to the guy doing the work , I am working on a frame and going to hang this one , even if I have to take something else down

 

[LedFTed]

guess it would have to be the cherry picker. my friend had borrowed a cherry picker to pull an push his engine, from his friend. his friend left it, in my friends garage for many years. when i borrowed it from my friend, after, a few times, he just told me to keep it. he didnt want it in his garage anymore. his friend had moved to Russia on business. still got it, used it many times, pulling an pushing, engines. when i was younger, i could load it by myself, set up, in the back of my 55 truck. so it goes

 

[XJCountry]

Got a bunch of free stiff after an estate sale. Got to know the family and they called me to come pick up whatever I wanted. Got a literal ton of stuff. Wood boards, power tools, extension cords, etc.

This was the same sale that they said I could have a stack of wood in the corner. I looked at it and my intuition was kicking me, but I couldn't figure out why...and I was driving an SUV so I wasn't able to fit an 18" x 18" x 72" stack of 1"x1" slats in there. These were stacked extremely neatly and screwed together.

Long story shorter I went back the next weekend and they said that they had taken the screws out of the top and it was a disguised chest!! 4 rifles in there with several hundred rounds of ammo. All bolt actions, but Holy Crap that would have been an awesome deal.

 

[Kevron]

Got a free recon from my father in law. Got the valves lapped and put in new rings and runs like new with no smoke. Used it today in fact. A few years ago a cow appeared in my pasture, no one claimed or came looking for her so, free cow! She’s had 3 or 4 calves since. That’s 2 of the best things I’ve got.

 

[LedFTed]

when you snooze

i had a shot at some free mahogany, that would fill a truck bed, in large sheets. at the time, i didnt know what mahogany was. Whoosh..

 

[fishfiles]

i had a shot at some free mahogany, that would fill a truck bed, in large sheets. at the time, i didnt know what mahogany was. Whoosh..

I dated a woman who was widowed , her ex worked on the river front as a long shore-man foreman all his life , in the old days they actually made pallets and boxes for shipping out of mahogany , New Orleans being a major port city in the old days there was a lot of stuff went thru here , he would take the good wood home , he had a really sweet shop with planners and saws and built a 15 room house that in the interior was all mahogany , there was no sheet rock or painted walls , arched passage ways , pocket doors , celling crown moldings , chair rails , base boards , door trim , everything exotic woods , this was one fine house but too much for her to handle and she sold it and the city block of land it sat on and keep the block across from it and the little guess house , there was suppose to be a street between the two blocks and was never put in so it was two city blocks of real-estate combined , it had two kitchens , one was called the butler kitchen , the walls of the dining room was rounded in the corners and you pressed on the walls and the entire wall would spring out and was cabinets with all the plates , glasses and silver ware on shelves in the walls , it was totally surrounded by 200-300 year old oaks , it was an old house dated in the 50's , but if I remember right , she got 1. something for it


Thanks for bring up mahogany , that led to a CD that I never did return , Aerosmith Crying

 

[misterclean59]

In December a customer gave me a yamaha 50 cc scooter that went under water during Harvey last August. I just dried everything out, replaced the battery and air filter. Runs like new! Another time a friend moved to Iraq to help with the rebuilding of the country. He needed a place to keep his new 16 foot lowboy trailer. He said "use it like it's yours, just give it back when I want it". He got it a year or two ago. I used it for 15 years? In the process another friend wanted to borrow my old lowboy for a race car trailer. I told him he could use it but when the other trailer was taken back I needed my lowboy back. He converted it to a dovetail 20 foot trailer and had to completely rebuild the raggedity old lowboy to make it a usable 16' lowboy again. Another time I ordered 1000 rounds of 9mm rfeloads from a commercial reloading business. Somehow i ended up getting 2 boxes of 1000 rounds each. I left messages twice but they never responded back. I think I still have a few hundred left!

 

[LedFTed]

Aerosmith Crying


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K5gCGpcddQ

i was watching American Pichers the other day, dont know what episode, an they found Aerosmith's 1st touring van. what da clunker. it was ate up in rust. one of the original band members came by to verify it.. i thing the guys paid 22G's for it. even if it was 22C's, [c-note] thats near a stretch..

 

[XJCountry]

In December a customer gave me a yamaha 50 cc scooter that went under water during Harvey last August. I just dried everything out, replaced the battery and air filter. Runs like new! Another time a friend moved to Iraq to help with the rebuilding of the country. He needed a place to keep his new 16 foot lowboy trailer. He said "use it like it's yours, just give it back when I want it". He got it a year or two ago. I used it for 15 years? In the process another friend wanted to borrow my old lowboy for a race car trailer. I told him he could use it but when the other trailer was taken back I needed my lowboy back. He converted it to a dovetail 20 foot trailer and had to completely rebuild the raggedity old lowboy to make it a usable 16' lowboy again. Another time I ordered 1000 rounds of 9mm rfeloads from a commercial reloading business. Somehow i ended up getting 2 boxes of 1000 rounds each. I left messages twice but they never responded back. I think I still have a few hundred left!

I hate bulk reloads with a passion. They are cheap, but only good for plinking IMO. I have a batch that has hard primers on about 1/3 of the rounds. I have put some of those hard primer rounds back in a mag 4-5 times and they will not fire. FWIW, I really like Fiocchi ammo My favorite is their "9APB" (124 grain). You can get it pretty cheap sometimes.

 

[Jeepwm69]

I hate bulk reloads with a passion. They are cheap, but only good for plinking IMO. I have a batch that has hard primers on about 1/3 of the rounds. I have put some of those hard primer rounds back in a mag 4-5 times and they will not fire. FWIW, I really like Fiocchi ammo My favorite is their "9APB" (124 grain). You can get it pretty cheap sometimes.

So last week I'm out working in the yard, and a dang armadillo is out there rooting in the middle of the day. I'd noticed holes all over my yard, but have been too lazy to patrol in the middle of the night.

I run in the house and get my 870 I keep for home defense. It's loaded with 00 buck. Run back out, draw down on the dillo, and "click". I fumble around, shuck the shell out, and the dillo starts running and the noise. 2nd shot fires, but I miss the running critter. Third shot I get another "click".

I looked and the first and third shots were older Federal shells, and the firing pin had barely dimpled the primer. The 2nd shot was a Winchester SuperX and had a nice deep indention.

Dang old Federal shells just had some super hard primers. I went out and fired off a half dozen SuperX's and they all fired and had good primer strikes.

Dillo got lucky, and I'm glad the test firing was on him instead of someone kicking my door in in the middle of the night.

 

[misterclean59]

In December a customer gave me a yamaha 50 cc scooter that went under water during Harvey last August. I just dried everything out, replaced the battery and air filter. Runs like new! Another time a friend moved to Iraq to help with the rebuilding of the country. He needed a place to keep his new 16 foot lowboy trailer. He said "use it like it's yours, just give it back when I want it". He got it a year or two ago. I used it for 15 years? In the process another friend wanted to borrow my old lowboy for a race car trailer. I told him he could use it but when the other trailer was taken back I needed my lowboy back. He converted it to a dovetail 20 foot trailer and had to completely rebuild the raggedity old lowboy to make it a usable 16' lowboy again. Another time I ordered 1000 rounds of 9mm rfeloads from a commercial reloading business. Somehow i ended up getting 2 boxes of 1000 rounds each. I left messages twice but they never responded back. I think I still have a few hundred left!

I hate bulk reloads with a passion. They are cheap, but only good for plinking IMO. I have a batch that has hard primers on about 1/3 of the rounds. I have put some of those hard primer rounds back in a mag 4-5 times and they will not fire. FWIW, I really like Fiocchi ammo My favorite is their "9APB" (124 grain). You can get it pretty cheap sometimes.

I've shot thousands of reloads in 9mm and 223. One misfire on the 9mm just a few weeks ago. It fired on it's second attempt. I buy from "Bite the Bullet" out of Las Vegas. Now for personal protection I have Hornady 9mm and several other premium brands for my Ar 15 for hunting and protection. I couldn't pass up a super good deal from a friend on a 1000 round case of cheap steel ammo. I think I paid $100? Other than a lot of smoke it's good for short range plinking and targets.