My yard sale finds

[Willowbilly3]

Scored a Clifford aluminum valve cover for a 240/300, a pair of new Ford 300 EFI exhaust manifolds and a whole bunch of old Ford brake parts that I need for the rpu. $20
I also got an 8x8 greenhouse, a nice drier,$100 for the pair.

 

[Old Iron]

Scored a Clifford aluminum valve cover for a 240/300, a pair of new Ford 300 EFI exhaust manifolds and a whole bunch of old Ford brake parts that I need for the rpu. $20
I also got an 8x8 greenhouse, a nice drier,$100 for the pair.

All you should be ashamed runnin round to garage sale like a bunch of hens and then come here to boast post about what you scored.
It's obvious some of you have better garage sales then we I do
Dang it
Great score!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Willowbilly3]

Well, I was trying to get some work done around the garden and every few minutes my cell phone would ring and one buddy or another would be telling me about something they thought I needed from a yard sale. I got one call about a running push mower for $20 and that's where I got the car parts. Passed on the snapper, it was a 2 stroke. I got another call on a push mower and they wanted $150 for it but I got the drier and green house there, it was the Catholic church.
Then yesterday I got a call that there was a push mower at the curb so I went and got it. Safety lever and zone cable were missing so I robbed them off a junker, gassed it up and mowed about 30 minutes with it. 5 horse Yardman rear bagger.

 

[Willowbilly3]

a waste of gray matter

Have any of you ever looked at one of those little 2 stroke tillers and thought hmmm... a couple wheels and connect this to the front of a bicycle in place of the fork? I got one of them with the lawnmower, cracked gas tank and missing the tines.

 

[Sam_Fear]

Have any of you ever looked at one of those little 2 stroke tillers and thought hmmm... a couple wheels and connect this to the front of a bicycle in place of the fork? I got one of them with the lawnmower, cracked gas tank and missing the tines.

Well, I hadn't until now.

 

[super56]

All I find at garage sales is beenie babies and old ladies purses...

 

[skull]

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[Willowbilly3]

When I lived on the Olympic Peninsula, all yard sales were awesome, mostly old retired people. Then I moved to east Texas and yard sales sucked unless you had a passel of preschool kids to get rigged up or needed give away oil field cups and hats or Christmas decorations. Here about one yard sale out of 5 has anything you would want. But I always ask about lawn mowers and often they will give me a couple. I get $75-$100 for them after I give 'em the once over. I asked at one yard sale last fall and ended up with 2 push mowers, 2 tillers, a snow blower and a chipper/shredder all for free. 2 weeks ago I had 2 riders dumped off in the yard for free. One was a rear engine Honda with pull rope start. I put gas in it and it fired right up. The belt was on it wrong, fixed that, mowed about 30 minutes. I put it on a local consignment auction and got $350. The other rider is a Murray with a briggs twin and hydro. It runs great but I need a nose for it. Same story, fresh gas, new battery and straighten out the belt routing. I've ran a couple tanks of gas through it, mows great.
Not a bad little sideline for an old hippie living the subsistence life style.

 

[earthman]

More power to ya WB

 

[Crossfire]

Yard sales

I do yard sales every Friday and Sat. Check out on Craigslist where they are ,make a route out of it. Get there early. I just picked up a complete mini-bike last Friday for $75. Guy couldn't get it started,left gas in it ,cleaned the carb and tank out ,5 hp briggs runs perfect. Hate to say it but I find better stuff at yardsales than in the classifieds.

 

[donsrods]

Garage sales here used to be killer, but in recent years they stink. I don't know if it is because of Craigslist or what, but the ones that you find any more just have crap.

Years ago I would find lots of cool tools and car stuff at them, same with estate sales. One time a garage sale was being held by the family of a deceased mechanic. I bought so many MAC and SnapOn tools that day that they started giving me boxes of parts free. When they found out I like Fords they gave me boxes of pushrods, bearings, timing chains, piston rings, etc, just to get them out of their way. But those kinds of sales are few and far between any more.

Don

 

[Willowbilly3]

It's hit or miss. I went with a friend to a personal pre showing of a small engine shop and collector. He is having a real yard sale with the city wide next week.
I ended up spending $80 on 3 sets of buggy steps, some early hand forged items including a set of stirrups, some Ford script tools, a chevy script tail light and a brand new set of mufflers from some sort of late model Mustang.

 

[Bamamav]

All the ones I've ever been to were mostly clothes. Did get a new paint gun at an estate sale a few years back, though. Now it seems like the big thing is estate auctions. You have to bid aginst the big money for what you want, most of the time it gets too high real fast.

My Pa in law and the wifes Uncle have a flea market style store next to me. Uncle hits the yard sales every Friday, buys what he thinks might sell. I've got some good deals from him on tools and stuff. They probably have over $50,000 worth of collector glassware that he got for nearly nothing. I don't know one from the other, but they say some of it is rare.