EdFred
Taxi to Parking
This is like the opposite of the Garmin GPS saga.
Last week I started cutting up a tree on the neighbors property that died and fell towards mine, with about 10' of it crossing the property line. He comes out and helps me pile up the branches I'm taking off the trunk. After a bunch of cutting, it's apparent the chain needs to be filed and sharpened. He says he might have a file in the garage and goes to get it. Wrong size, and he says come on over and see if we can find it. While in the garage, I'm looking around at what's there and he mentions he has to be out by May 1. (Long story, parent's house, no will, probate/foreclosure property) He starts telling me he's going to just pack up some clothes in a duffel bag and head west and I should make an offer on what's in the garage.
I'm looking around, and there's a Kennedy tool chest completely filled with (mostly machinist) tools. 6-8 metal toolboxes also filled with a tools. A peg board wall - again filled. Bench grinders, vices, hoses, extension cords, drills, saws, sanders, compressors, air tools, on and on and on. There's a handful of things that I don't have that would be nice to have, but without looking too close, I have no idea what the lot of stuff would be worth. I don't want to be a dick, but I don't really want to let go of a bunch of money either.
I say, "I don't know, I'm really only willing to spend about $1000 right now, and a lot of this I don't really need." He says he has a guy from the pawn shop coming the next day but doesn't think he will get that much of an offer from the guy, but $1000 might be a bit short. I'm about to just go back home and he says $1500 and I can have everything in the house and on the property. If it can be removed from the property, it's mine for fifteen hundred. He says come on in the house, and is showing me the furniture (yuck) and some other odds and ends, and then shows me two muzzleloaders - one new, one old. Mine if I want them. I say everything for $1500? Yep. I say sure, we can probably do that.
I bring by the cash the next day, and load up 3 truck beds full of the above tools, along with the guns, a crap ton of camp gear, hunting gear, kerosene heater, fridge, camp stove, Coleman lanterns, oil lamps, tree stands, chains and pulleys for yanking engines, the list goes on. Open up a couple rooms I hadn't looked in the day before, and make off with an antique (weighs probably 150lbs) cash register, a few tables, bows, arrow, waders, fishing rods, fishing reels, oh, and a fishing boat plus trailer, and a motorcycle.
I haven't even begun to inventory what I got, but I figure even at craigslist prices I'm near the 5 figure mark. Sometimes you just have to find the right seller.
Oh, about the only thing I didn't get - a file that fit the chain on my chainsaw - which is what we went looking for in the first place.
Last week I started cutting up a tree on the neighbors property that died and fell towards mine, with about 10' of it crossing the property line. He comes out and helps me pile up the branches I'm taking off the trunk. After a bunch of cutting, it's apparent the chain needs to be filed and sharpened. He says he might have a file in the garage and goes to get it. Wrong size, and he says come on over and see if we can find it. While in the garage, I'm looking around at what's there and he mentions he has to be out by May 1. (Long story, parent's house, no will, probate/foreclosure property) He starts telling me he's going to just pack up some clothes in a duffel bag and head west and I should make an offer on what's in the garage.
I'm looking around, and there's a Kennedy tool chest completely filled with (mostly machinist) tools. 6-8 metal toolboxes also filled with a tools. A peg board wall - again filled. Bench grinders, vices, hoses, extension cords, drills, saws, sanders, compressors, air tools, on and on and on. There's a handful of things that I don't have that would be nice to have, but without looking too close, I have no idea what the lot of stuff would be worth. I don't want to be a dick, but I don't really want to let go of a bunch of money either.
I say, "I don't know, I'm really only willing to spend about $1000 right now, and a lot of this I don't really need." He says he has a guy from the pawn shop coming the next day but doesn't think he will get that much of an offer from the guy, but $1000 might be a bit short. I'm about to just go back home and he says $1500 and I can have everything in the house and on the property. If it can be removed from the property, it's mine for fifteen hundred. He says come on in the house, and is showing me the furniture (yuck) and some other odds and ends, and then shows me two muzzleloaders - one new, one old. Mine if I want them. I say everything for $1500? Yep. I say sure, we can probably do that.
I bring by the cash the next day, and load up 3 truck beds full of the above tools, along with the guns, a crap ton of camp gear, hunting gear, kerosene heater, fridge, camp stove, Coleman lanterns, oil lamps, tree stands, chains and pulleys for yanking engines, the list goes on. Open up a couple rooms I hadn't looked in the day before, and make off with an antique (weighs probably 150lbs) cash register, a few tables, bows, arrow, waders, fishing rods, fishing reels, oh, and a fishing boat plus trailer, and a motorcycle.
I haven't even begun to inventory what I got, but I figure even at craigslist prices I'm near the 5 figure mark. Sometimes you just have to find the right seller.
Oh, about the only thing I didn't get - a file that fit the chain on my chainsaw - which is what we went looking for in the first place.
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