The Score Of The Day Thread

[biggkidd]

 I'll keep it until one of us is dead dead whether it will be the D4 or me. LMAO 

I get all kinds of stuff that was destined for the bone yard and fix & use it as is or repurpose the parts. Heck these days I guess I have a bone / junk yard of my own. Let me tell ya it comes in handy! 

[Dangerous_Dan]

 

 

 

 
On the side of the road with a FREE sign on it.
My truck has a crane so it was no effort to load it.
Plug is cut off.
The tag says 115/230 so I think it's single phase.
Also says 2HP.
I will be testing it in the next few days.

[Old Greenhorn]

Man, as soon as I saw that first photo with the blade guard ring (which I NEVER understood) I knew exactly what you had there. That there is a rock solid machine. Just needs a table and you are all set. SOme MDF should do that just fine.
 That's a beast of a saw. I would have had to come back with a buddy and a trailer, but I sure wouldn't let that go by.

 Nice score.

[beenthere]

Great find. 
If that is the 40-A, then there is a downloadable manual
http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=720

[Nebraska]

Wow I have the same or very similar one in my shed waiting for a real shop. I will have  to check. It would be a score if that's the right manual. A rail road shop had mine and was tossing it. A friend got it and gave it to me.

[Dangerous_Dan]

 

 

 

 
The insulation on the wires is dry rotted and crumbling.
I powered it up and it runs well.
Just what I needed, ANOTHER PROJECT! 8)

[mike_belben]

Autocrane on a military trailer?  Thats the score of a life time
 

[Resonator]

Marathon Electric motors, made in Wausau, WI.

[Ljohnsaw]

Got this off a auction site for $65 to put on my Ford 545D arms.  Amazon sells them for $209.


 

[mike_belben]

I FINALLY got someone to swap me a mig gas cylinder today .. If i had the cash id have drove 2hrs each way to nashville by now for a nexair dealer to take my praxair tanks but i persevered and got a local exchange.  

Inside i noticed some big cylinders with scrap spraypainted on them.  Looked around, didnt see a dumpster.  Asked what yall do with the scrap bottles.  He said take em.

Free steel is haaaard to come by in the rural south.  Theres a lotta good junk gonna get welded up out of the gas i got today. 

[Ljohnsaw]

Asked what yall do with the scrap bottles. He said take em.

Ya gonna make a big set of wind chimes? ;)  That kind of steel is fetching $260/ton right now.  I was dropping off some scrap and the yard guys were watching too close - there was some really useful stuff in the pile :-\  They don't sell, but sometimes I swap

[Dangerous_Dan]

 

NOT a trailer Mike.
It's better than that.
UD1800 6 cyl turbo diesel with a six speed manual.


 

 

[btulloh]

Nice combo. Definitely a score. Does that have an electric winch or hydraulic?

Saw this on FB marketplace yesterday for $500. Problem is I don't have something appropriate to mount it on.  Sure would be handy.



 

[newoodguy78]

For that kind of money I'd be grabbing for the just in case scenario down the road. 

[Dangerous_Dan]

Winch is electric.

Go get that crane for $500

Mine sat for 10 years in my junk pile until I got that truck.

Nice to have stuff lying around so it's on hand when you need it.

[btulloh]

For that kind of money I'd be grabbing for the just in case scenario down the road.

Yep, that would my usual thought too.  The problem is that I've started to use a little sanity in those decisions. I've got so many incomplete and unstarted projects already there's no way to get far enough "down the road " to finish them all. (I've learned through careful study of scientific and medical sources that I may not live forever. lol )
I've actually been thinning out some things.  Sold all my farmalls except one show queen.  Sold off some equipment I don't use any more.  Weeded out some small down the road projects, but there's still too many/too much.  Plus the half-finished things and broke stuff that needs to be fixed. 
But that crane is still tempting me.  smiley_devilish

[btulloh]

Winch is electric.

Go get that crane for $500

Mine sat for 10 years in my junk pile until I got that truck.

Nice to have stuff lying around so it's on hand when you need it.

YOU'RE NOT HELPING!!!!  (You are dangerous!). I'm trying to be rational here.

[btulloh]

What's the capacity of those cranes?

[mike_belben]

An autocrane is what im building my next forestry crane out of.  Got it for 30cents a pound.  Same rate for the material handler attatchment with kinshofer continuous 4 port rotator and dangle link.  


I think the torch bottles will have fire going through them in some form eventually.  


This afternoon i made my son promise to build our 8x8 forwarder project himself with his son if im not around long enough to get to it with him.

I didnt go to new hampshire and cut up a pair of 5tons for him to scrap the stuff.

[Dangerous_Dan]

Says 3200 pounds.

[Dangerous_Dan]

 
 
 
It loaded this old Bridgeport milling machine.
Dragged it out of an old barn with the winch, then lifted it onto the bed.
It might qualify as "a score of the day" $300
Crane made this purchase possible.
I rebuilt everything and added a DRO.

[Dangerous_Dan]

 

 K

[mike_belben]

DRO, Varispeed and powerfeed thatll bring 3grand no problem. Id say you done fine. Shined up nice

[btulloh]

Well the crane is now marked PENDING so it won't haunt me much longer. Good deals don't usually last long on FB.

I went to look at a honda powered compressor yesterday. Supposed to run and drive, but it wouldn't start when I got there. (Sat for 8 months with corn gas in the carb, so. . . ). I told the guy I wasn't interested because I didn't need another project. He said make an offer and I told $100 was the max I'd pay without seeing it run and pump some air. It followed me home, so I've got another carb cleaning project - oops. Pretty sure its ok otherwise though.



 

I didn't know the scuba tank portables could do 14 cfm @ 100 psi. Pretty good for a small compressor. It is two stage, so that makes sense now that I see it.

[mike_belben]

the free 300cu ft 75/25 mig bottle i brought home hissed.  hooked it up and its got 200 psi in it.  thatll last me months.  back on easy street. 

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