What do you 'keep an eye out' for?

notbutanapron · #1 01/26/13, 03:35 PM

I was just thinkin' - nearly every country person I know has a small list of wants/needs for their farm they always keep on hand or in mind for when they find it at the right price.

My partner is always on the lookout for a MIG welder, every 4wd on the entire planet except Fords unless it's an F truck, and some new workshirts.

I'm looking for steel buckets, a 'new' GPS, a 'new' vaccuum and a good price on an old-school Land Rover Defender, which is the 4wd I want. I'm also on the look out for cheap UHF radios and the like for when I get it. And ALWAYS JARS.

What are you on the lookout for?

ChanceTheRapids · #2 01/26/13, 03:42 PM

Funny, I was going to say MIG welder (one specifically, at a price I want).

Glass canisters, tie-downs, chain (weird, but you always need chain), 5-gallon buckets, 55-gallon drums (metal or blue plastic), and probably some more I'm forgetting.

notbutanapron · #3 01/26/13, 03:48 PM

The BEST my husband could do on a decent MIG was fifteen hundred dollars. Not sure how much they are in America but the best we can find normally is four and a half! Those things are so not cheap. :/ But he also wants the MIG/Generator combo.

ChanceTheRapids · #4 01/26/13, 03:53 PM

$1500 could be a good deal or bad, depending on what type it is, and what you are using it for...

Personally, I have a car I've been restoring and I would really like a Hobart 140, which I've found (but then missed out on) for as low as $254 nearby, new in box (retail, about $600). I don't think I'll ever get that lucky again, but I sure would like to find one for $300 or less.

notbutanapron · #5 01/26/13, 04:18 PM

I'm not too up on MIGs but I know it would be for business and I know my hubs knows them like the back of his hand so he'd probably know it was a good deal.

What car are you restoring? I have a 37 Chevy. I want someone to rechrome the lines up the bonnet but apparently 'nobody does that anymore' so I need steel plates put in to resemble chroming instead. Or, at least, that's what pretty much every chroming mob tells me. "Oh, nup, can't chrome THAT"... but it IS chrome!! "Yeah it was chromed 75 years ago. We don't have that technology."

I don't even WANT to know how much it's gonna cost when I finally do find someone who will rechrome a bonnet.

Big Dave · #6 01/26/13, 09:36 PM

The lottery. The rest would take care of themselves.

MissKitty · #7 01/26/13, 09:44 PM

Jars..country home decor..fencing...tin..used building materials..sheds..jars,,stuff..lol..

plowjockey · #8 01/26/13, 09:45 PM

Quality American made hand tools (there is a lot of American made junk out there)

Small tool boxes and quality gas cans.

John Deere garden tractors.

Old Ford backhoes.

JawjaBoy · #9 01/26/13, 10:02 PM

Just getting started so I'm looking for almost everything! Would love a welder, larger air compressor, jars, building materials, some old, good quality hand tools for woodworking, eventually a small tractor and attachments, etc, etc.

Raven12 · #10 01/26/13, 10:25 PM

Seeds. I'm a junkie.

Awnry Abe · #11 01/26/13, 10:51 PM

Coyotes. I'm ever vigilant.

And more specific to your question, canning stuff.

theemon · #12 01/27/13, 02:45 AM

i collect fish tanks

ChristieAcres · #13 01/27/13, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by plowjockey

Quality American made hand tools (there is a lot of American made junk out there)

Small tool boxes and quality gas cans.

John Deere garden tractors.

Old Ford backhoes.

You just reminded me, gotta start a HONEY DO LIST! Since I am married to an Industrial Machinist/Mechanic/Welder, that guy can make me any tool I want. I found out, that I MUST be specific. One day, I was telling him about Broad Fork, wanting one. A few days later, my sweet DH comes out from around his shop, with a big grin on his face, carrying what he thought was a Board Fork. Well, it had one heavy gauge pipe in the center for a handle and was one heavy tool I have it hung in my garden cabin, and will have to put that on the list for DH to modify (should have a handle on either side, and not be so dern heavy).

I keep an eye out for canning jars, anything that is garden or orchard related I don't have, but don't need too much. I'd like to get a larger AA Canner and a Cider Press (yes, can have DH build me one...). There just isn't much we need, have just about all the machinery we need (DH has his own shop on our property).

Micheal · #14 01/27/13, 06:09 AM

Don't really know what "it" is just yet.
But I'll know "it" when I see "it".
And then I'll be on the look-out for the other "its" I don't have in mind..........

brosil · #15 01/27/13, 06:44 AM

I need a small haybine, the type that will run on an 8n. They're rare around here and the people that have them won't give them up.

Fire-Man · #16 01/27/13, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Micheal

Don't really know what "it" is just yet.
But I'll know "it" when I see "it".
And then I'll be on the look-out for the other "its" I don't have in mind..........

Micheal said it right on! I do not know of anything that I am on the look out for, but I go to alot of auctions and usually bring home something/load that I had No Idea I needed or wanted UNTIL I seen it there----LOL.

Ironbutt · #17 01/27/13, 09:03 AM

I'm always looking cheap corn, cheap oats or barley. A used mulch layer & a manure spreader.

salmonslayer · #18 01/27/13, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by notbutanapron

I'm not too up on MIGs but I know it would be for business and I know my hubs knows them like the back of his hand so he'd probably know it was a good deal.

What car are you restoring? I have a 37 Chevy. I want someone to rechrome the lines up the bonnet but apparently 'nobody does that anymore' so I need steel plates put in to resemble chroming instead. Or, at least, that's what pretty much every chroming mob tells me. "Oh, nup, can't chrome THAT"... but it IS chrome!! "Yeah it was chromed 75 years ago. We don't have that technology."

I don't even WANT to know how much it's gonna cost when I finally do find someone who will rechrome a bonnet.

You might check out Eastwood for their liquid chrome product. Re-Chroming around here is insanely expensive and the liquid chrome works pretty good. I am also in the process of buying a MIG 175 and plasma cutter from them for about $1200 USD for the pair. I've looked at Miller, Hobart and Lincoln and the Eastwood has the best deal and gets good reviews.

I am always looking for cheap older pickups to fix up for farm trucks and then flip, older 60s garden tractors, farm implements to fix up and sell, I am looking for a three wheeler or two, garden supplies, land, older quality tools, antiques, and the perennial search for the barn find early 60s sedan to fix up for the Mrs.

wally · #19 01/27/13, 09:56 AM

Yeah I found "it " yesterday at the used book store. Volume 1,2,3 and 4 of the foxfire books.. had to pay 1.75 for each one

secuono · #20 01/27/13, 10:12 AM

Buyers.