Free stuff

37chief · Aug 3, 2014

Reading about the free M/F a few posts down. Someone gave me a free M/F about 15 years ago. All it needed was rear tires and rims, front tires and rims, front spindles, a injuction pump. Then beat one piston out. Would have been cheaper for me to find a running tractor. A couple years ago a friend gave me a Rivett tool room lathe. After having it moved to my garage it is always in the way, the thing is huge. But it was free. I already have a good South Bend lathe. What are some of your "free" projects? Stan

jCarroll · Aug 3, 2014

a guy I used to work with said:
"if something is free, be careful how much you take!"

Bob Harvey · Aug 3, 2014

Got a free 2N Ford from my neighbor. Had new rears (never used) but was missing the starter and locked up. Came with a 6' disc, a single Ferguson plow and a rotovator. I tore it apart, bought a bunch of stuff (starter, 12v conversion, clutch kit, gasket set, had the block boiled and head planed and a whack of small stuff) Lost interest because a pal of mine offered me $1500 for it (minus the implements). The thing had been gone through prior to my ownership and the sheet metal and paint was in very good shape, so......

RBnSC · Aug 3, 2014

Scrapyard friend gave me a 600 Ford. Completely Rebuilt engine,new clutch, radiator, gas tank ,Sheet metal, fenders, Front wheels and tires. Needed money and sold it before I ever cranked the engine.
Ron

Ultradog MN · Aug 3, 2014

My deer stand.
A year ago I got almost every thing to build it off the Free section on craigslist.
I bought the windows - $60 for 4 of them and had some of the aluminum wrap for the facia, etc left over from a job.
But the framing materials, sheathing, door with key, insulation, roofing, siding, paneling inside, carpet - everything else was free.

NCWayne · Aug 3, 2014

Over the years I've been given air tools, several Enerpac style rams and the tooling with them, lumber, etc, etc.

One of the impacts, a 1" IR is currently on my truck and being used. The 'Enerpac' stuff are the cylinders and associated tooling to pull sprockets off of CAT dozers, and they get used on occasion. The lumber came from an old deck that was overbuilt, and from a guy on CL that was demolishing a house with a lot of good wood in it, and packing crates used around conveyor sections on a job I worked for a few months. The wood has been used to enclose part of my back shed and give me about 14x20 more of inside storage, and the wood from the crating was used to do the framing for a 14x16 storage shed for the house.

There are a lot of other things I have been given simply because I had the capability to get them out of the people's way, or simply because they saw I had a need for something that would otherwise rust away and offered it to me for use, but these are just a couple off the top of my head.

bison · Aug 3, 2014

I had a electric pallet truck given to me,..in good running order,..it ONLY needed new batteries.
Yeah yeah... :roll:
the philanthrope only failed to mention that the $4000 main switch board had been removed.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 3, 2014

My late brother-in-law gave me a '68 Ford Galaxie 2-door hardtop once. I'd have been money ahead if he'd given me the bills from his wife and 4 kids for a few months instead.

retired farmer · Aug 3, 2014

About three years ago I had been wanting to get a lawn tractor. Boss and I were coming back from town one afternoon and I noticed one in a driveway with a FREE sign on the hood. Told the boss to stop and go back. Guy was getting divorced and wanted it gone. Nice, smaller MTD with a twelve horse engine. Said it had been started the year before but needed a battery. I have about three hundred dollars in it so far, but can't complain, runs like a new one.

J.Wondergem · Aug 3, 2014

(quoted from post at 12:41:07 08/03/14) My deer stand.
A year ago I got almost every thing to build it off the Free section on craigslist.
I bought the windows - $60 for 4 of them and had some of the aluminum wrap for the facia, etc left over from a job.
But the framing materials, sheathing, door with key, insulation, roofing, siding, paneling inside, carpet - everything else was free.

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Do you run a generator at your deer stand? I see electrical outlets in it.

Spook · Aug 3, 2014

No you wouldn't...

Fawteen · Aug 3, 2014

Quite a lot of junk, like most folks, but also a 350' spool of #6 wire. Had been used in an old (and apparently REALLY deep) well.

2 #6 hot leads and a #8 ground, all nicely taped together and rolled up on a wooden spool.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 3, 2014

For what I had to spend to put and keep that one on the road, I think I would.

Ultradog MN · Aug 3, 2014

It's about 200' from one of my rental houses so we trenched a line in. 3/4 pvc conduit, 10 ga wire.
Has a bit of voltage drop but only a 1500W electric heater OR coffee pot. As I understand it neither would be tooo adversly affected by some drop. It worked great last year. We took two big does out of it.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 3, 2014

Sometimes the free stuff I'm given find a home at the recyclers.

Rich Iowa · Aug 3, 2014

Your cabin looks nicer than my house!

showcrop · Aug 3, 2014

I came home from vacation once and found a Ford 8N complete with jungle jim sitting in my back yard that someone dropped off just because they thought that I wouldn't notice it. Of course I noticed it right away, and a quick inspection revealed that it had no redeeming qualities, so I pushed it onto my trailer and found someone else who was away.

Traditional Farmer · Aug 3, 2014

I've been given a 1992 Dodge Dakota 4WD supercab with a camper shell with a slightly bent frame runs and operates just fine use it as a tool wagon on the farm.Just last week I was given a nice anvil that weighs around 200lbs,a Rigid air compressor that works good,a wood stove and hot water heat system and a trailer load of tools and
handy items just to get them out of a garage.Have been given several nice large garden tractors.

Mike (WA) · Aug 4, 2014

The well driller down the road gave me a Hercules GO198 engine with a lot of hours on it- It needed a rebuild, but had been such a good engine he couldn't bear to throw it away. I was going to rebuild it as a puller engine for my Cockshutt 35 "someday". It sat for a few years, and one day he came over and wanted to buy it back, because the one on his drill rig had ventilated the block. Told him I wouldn't sell it, but he could sure take it back home if he wanted, which he did.

Bryce Frazier · Aug 4, 2014

Hehehe, FREE is my speciality!

MM RTU
Case VAC
John Deere B
Cletrac HG
AC WD-45
Ferguson TO-30

Ford 4400 Industrial Backhoe

LOADS of equipment.

And a lot of other, smaller things.

On another note, not sure why I thought of it, but one of the BEST things I ever found dumpster diving was dehydrated milk. One dumpster had 4 BOXES, with 6 coffee can size jugs SEALED in each box... S C O R E!!!! :O Bryce

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