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panoz77

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Show off your "FREEBIE" prep items
« on: May 02, 2015, 07:24:43 PM »
These were given to me from my great uncle.  He is in poor health and can't do or use the things he used to, he's trying to get rid of his stuff.  Called me over and asked if I wanted his Miller Generweld One Thirty.  He also gave me a couple other useful items.  My son asked him if he could have the old rusty Eastwing hatchet (got it home and cleaned it up for him) and I asked him for the handheld gasoline blow torch.

I've told him we need to put up a sign in his front yard with BARN SALE TOOLS and he would have it all gone in a few weekends and make some good money.  He's got huge bandsaws, Shop Smith with almost everything, table saws, tons of USA made tools of every imaginable use, older power tools that put todays stuff to shame.  If you can think of a tool, he probably has at least one if not more.  He is one of those old times who has coffee cans and every other container you can imagine full of hardware, bolts, nuts, nails, everything and knows exactly where everything is.

I don't think it needs to be said, but he made the pull cart and it works well :thumb:





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Re: Show off your "FREEBIE" prep items
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2015, 10:57:21 PM »
As a construction worker I frequently go dumpster diving on site, it amazes me how much useable material gets thrown out. I have buckets of discarded hardware, pipe, tubing, wood, and a handful of tools that have been left behind by previous trades. Tis the good life for a tinkerer.
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