Woke up this morning and was glancing over the local Want-Ad here in MA. I just came back from purchasing the deal of my lifetime. Let me begin by assuring you all that none of these tools were stolen. When I got to the guys condo I saw that all the tools were tagged with his initials, he had all the owners manuals in a big zip loc bag and still had receipts for about half of the tools. He and his wife also had about half of their belongings in boxes, getting ready for the move to Sweden, hence the sale of his beloved tools. (power conversion problems)
Now that all the legal disclaimers are out of the way, here’s the good part. All the tools were in great condition and many were used only during the renovation of this guys friends house and others were for personal use. Here’s the list:
Porter Cable blade left circular saw
Porter Cable 1 1/2 HP fixed base router with steel kit box and extra collets
Porter Cable laminate trimmer
Porter Cable Random orbit sander with about 75 various grit H and L disks
Milwaukee 1/2″ Hammerdrill/drill with T handle, steel kit box, and 6 assorted percussion bits
Dewalt 1/4 sheet sander
Bosch 4 1/2″ disk grinder in blowmold kit box with various disks and wheels
Delta 8″ bench grinder
Forget the brand… but a sweet heat gun
and last but not least….Paslode Impulse 15ga finish nailer with 7 fuel cells, 2 batteries, charger, kit box, no mar depth adjustable add-on, and about 10 packs of various length finish nails
WHEW…. I knew it was morning, but I had no idea that this was Christmas morning… the grand total for this cornicopia of love….$400.
I love this country!
Then the guy throws in a can of goof off to remove his initials from the tools!
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Those all used to be mine, he stole them from me, now if you would kindly ship them to me I would be more then happy to give you your 400 back plus the shipping cost. :)
You can keep the DW sander though...
Congrats on the great deal
The early bird got the worm!
No guilt??????
Brag on, someday justice will visit you.
Hey, really, I'm glad for ya! We all get our turn at deals like that.
Excellence is its own reward!
Piffin, what's up with that? This guy new what he paid for the tools. I gave him what he asked, no haggle. Should I have said " no way man that's too cheap...I gotta walk on this one"? Is that really what you would do?
Me too, Man. Just yanking your chain. You got a good deal. Enjoy and bask in it..
Excellence is its own reward!
Hmmmm. Diesels a bit on the defensive side here.
Wonder what that means.
Bought a long bed Rockwell 6" Jointer for $300 from an ad in the paper. Old Parks planer $300 ad in paper. Think they both work out to about $1 a pound.
Dieselpig done good, reading the paper is good for the mind and soul too some days.
Joe H
you know he made this all up - Paslode doesn't even make a 15 guage Impulse nailer
That's the sweet part of the deal. He got the very first one.
Really Diesel pig hellacious deal. Congrats!Whale Oil Beef Hooked!
Hey Gunner, you too can refer to post 28126.7
Whoa big fella, I was congratulating you. I think you did great!Whale Oil Beef Hooked!
whoa there buddy...first off, if you want to call me a liar you best address me directly. The Paslode is an older IM250, if I didn't look closely enough and it is a 16ga than I apologize. What kind of a fool would make up a story of good fortune and tell it to a bunch of strangers? For what? Probably the same type of fool who would pick up on a minor mistake and declare to all that it is a sham. I live in Natick, MA and will be framing all day tomorrow in Upton, MA if you care to stop by I will be more than happy to show you the lot of tools along with the Want Ad (which you can go online and view yourself) so as to satisfy your scepticism. In fact if you do show up I will be more than happy to try the thing out on you, er ah with you.
I thought that I would share my story, not to brag (Piffin) but to encourage all to look around for good deals on the tools we use to make our bread. We hear so many unfortunate stories here of tools getting stolen, buying tools that turn out to be pieces of junk, or of tools that suffer an unfortunate demise at the hands of the "new guy" that I thought a story with the opposite outcome would be a good topic.
I hope that you, Shoeman, are not so jaded and skeptical in the rest of your life that you can't believe that cool things happen to people daily. Maybe it is your pathetic attitude and general misery that blinds you to the good things around you. So keep it up brother, you have my best wishes in your search for all that is wrong in this world... you will find plenty of things to whine about. Great attitude "Shoeman"...keep it up. Email me if you would like to stop by.
Peace
I have the older Impulse. It is marketed as a 16ga but it will shoot 15 ga all day long with no problem. It was a dealer that cled me in on that fact. So I guess you are both right. In the books, it is a 16 ga but on the job, it transforms into a masked crusador super smacker..
Excellence is its own reward!
Piffin
I have the newer angle 16g finish nailer, are you saying that the gun will use 15g senco nails?
I hope this is right cause it will save a lot on the nails.
Also dieselpig, I think you got a great deal, happy for ya. Now unlike all those other jelous guys I'll give you $450 for the lot of it. Dont make your mind up to quickly, think about it for a day or two.
Doug
It's the older black Impulse that I can use either in. I can't say whether the new angled will accept both sizes..
Excellence is its own reward!
I will NEVER dis a person for getting a great deal.
I moved continents 4 times (my wife tells me i'm going again after I'm stiff) and I've had to sell multiple households. All I want to do is get rid of things and move on with my life.
Congratulations on your great tool buy. Forget the jealous ones.At my age, my fingers & knees arrive at work an hour after I do.
Aaron the HandymanVancouver, Canada
Whoa, there dieselpig
sorry I seem to have pushed a button there - did not mean to call you a liar - just having a little fun - guess I should have included LOL at the end of the post
looks to me like you got a great deal, and I never doubted that you did - these things happen - nice when they do
relax, enjoy your good fortune
Shoe
You can go back to sleep now, Larry.
Hi Dieselpig,
Good on you for the deal and better yet for the response. You mentioned Natick and Upton. I have a nephew in Sudbury that's in the trades, Richy Cormier. If you know or run into him please tell him Uncle Jimmy says hello. He has a sister in Upton, pretty area there. I'm now in the NW.
I'll start reading my ads a little closer I think
GO SOX
bum...keep smiling...makes 'em wonder what you're up to !!
Okay, okay...maybe I jumped the gun on ripping into a couple of you guys...Piff and Gunner. My point is that if you want to rib someone or poke a little fun of a question or viewpoint, it's all good. This is not the first (and probably not the last) time I've caught a little flak in here. But this is the first time I felt the need to defend my words. The reason being, that if you think that joking around and boldly calling a stranger a liar are the same things, than I suggest you try it out in the "real world". I have no problem with horsing around (I too spend my day on job sites), in fact I enjoy it....BUT calling someone a liar has an entirely different tone and if you do it, you had best have a very good reason, especially in a public forum such as this. In additon, I don't feel that getting the guage wrong on one tool in ten warrants being called a liar. So, REZ, if you think that I was defensive than I guess you were right.
No blood, no foul....it's all good! DP
hey. good for you on the deal..up in the white mnts we get the want ads but a lot of stuff is too far away to go see and most of us are alergic to crossing the border.. but sometimes ya luck out musta earned some good karma along the way.. and diesel when your in upton stop by the rose garden and have the prime rib on thur..fri it used to be awesome
I think they were giving you the razz because I got the deal of the century. The dad of a collegue of my wife "made" me take around 500bd' of various cherry, walnut, oak, mahogany, and at least 100 euro hinges, full extension slides, curved table aprons, dining table extension slides, 2 quick action bench vises, drill press, cabriole legs, boxes of miscellaneous hardware, drills, frame clamps, and a 10" radial arm saw, all for 200 bucks. I still don't know what's in all the boxes, but it's great being in the right place at the right time...even if yours was only 2nd best<G> EliphIno!
So, you use up those 100 eruo style hinges yet?
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Doode, how do you dredge this stuff up? I have used up most of those hinges...wonder how many of diesel's tools are still working....smile, smile smile Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Roar! I'm suprised the mail notification was still working.
I had to go roaming around in there as I had a Paslode problem I was wanting to get data on and saw that old thread.
Interesting to read some stuff you had written back then that you don't remember.
Got to admit you and diesel both had a good score back then.
cu invented deals
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Jeezus. You need a different hobby.
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
instead of different...
how about just a hobby...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
forget the hobby ...
he needs a date!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
make that two....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
nahh ...
not me.
the wife stocked me up before she left for Fla ...
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
if I gotta explain it..............
geeze...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
so how did hinges and paslode connect in the search function???
be wonderin' about Steve Mohler...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Diesel mentioned that he'd scored a Paslode Impulse in the first post and that was my search word. Once ya get reading ya know you have to finish the thread.
I saw Bobcats posts were deleted. Gee, how'd you think that happened?
be IMERC uses artificial bait
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
he has quite a memory
There are times I wish he didnt
one of the very few things i miss about moving away from a big city was the killer deals i use to find in the classifieds. (all time personal best- a robland x31 combo machine in brand new condition with all the toys and a pile of forrest, freud and cmt blades plus interchangeable shaper head- for $2300, new $7500ish - and the rich guy who sold it to me even rented a trailer and helped haul it to my house!) now there's maybe 4 or 5 tool ads in the local paper and 1) it's virtually always crap and 2) it's the same crap for weeks on end- i feel like calling the sellers and telling them to give up, nobody wants your crap- did i mention they only sell crap in the classifieds around here?
congratulations on your big score!
m
Chirstmas you won the lotto. It never fails when ever I see an add like that I'm always get there five min after the guy that had his cup of coffeeten min before I did
good luck
WHAT IN THE HELL MAN?!!!!
(that was a rhetorical question so please don't reply, I'm scared of you)
Please don't feed the trolls.
'Hey Moe!'
'Ya Curly.'
na nana nananana
Woo woowoowoowoowoowoo!
Maybe it's the extreme winter wearing on everyone. Maybe it's the stress of an impending war. Maybe it's the stress of a downsliding economy in the back of everyone's mind.
I started a post that I thought was positive and thought maybe I would hear from others who have come across some good deals and were excited about them.
Since then I have been called a liar twice and a braggart once. All have receded their accusations under the guise of "I was just kiddin' man, can't ya take a joke". Which is good enough for me...yet still somewhat strange. Then along comes Bobcat or whoever the hell it is with a total hijack of the thread. It is then turned into a forum for him to show his blatant agression and hate towards two other long time posters whose advise, responses and insight I had always admired previously. This guy, to me, sounds purely dangerous. The type of character you run into from time to time and quickly recognize the need to distance yourself from. Fear this guy? Absolutely not, but definately do not encourage. Bobcat, I have read your posts in JLC and all over this board and have to ask..."what is with the chip on your shoulder?" Who crossed you so badly in your life that you feel the need to take out your anger on anyone who will entertain or listen to it?
I guess what I an wondering is..."WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AROUND HERE?" Why is everyone so quick lately to gang up on one another? Why are folks looking for any discrepency or difference in opinion in posts and then capitalizing on them? Which is ultimately forcing others into proverbial corners. I love this website, magazine, forum, trade etc but I am concerned about the direction and attitude that posts have been taking lately. I'm sure I'll hear that if I don't like it, I don't have to read it... which is true, but who lives like that? Or I'll hear, "hey you've only posted like 50 times Dieselpig who the heck are you?" which also is fine...BUT it doesn't invalidate my points. I hope I'm not starting too much trouble, but this whole experience with this thread has been a truly bizarre experience and a frightening display of human nature.
Peace to all and happy hammering. DP
Ya, I've been surfing this forum for a couple years now and at first I too became appalled at times at the hard hitting antics of some posters here. But after awhile you get to recognize certain personality traits and attitudes and I realize that really most of it comes down to simple banter without authentic hatred directed from the regulars. I think that construction is such a hard and forceful trade that it just comes out here in print and dialogue as a normal course.
'Course there is always a newbie that will appear for awhile throwing curve balls then leave shiit with no substance and vanish. I liken breaktime to a walk down the street and some folks you'll stop and talk with and some you'd just as soon shine on into good riddance. Most guys here after knocking each other in the head and a wrassle around on the ground for a spell over some subject would end up buying each other a beer.
As for bobcat or his many aliases he is a so far one of a kind unique creature here of his own delusional mind which most are still trying to comprehend. I view him as a dysfunctional individual that in a twisted way finds some kind of acceptance here by any return postings he receives regardless of what they are.
Most here continue to hold out the hope of redemption to the poor soul because that is what is in them, finding it hard to believe this individual is as far gone as he presents himself.
But with his history on this board he has gone too far over the edge with rather serious accusations and lies that border too close on the criminal side. We know little of the actual substance of the man but being aware of the depth of deprivation some humans are capable of and a question of his sanity coming into play regarding his malicious posts, I for one consider him a possible danger. It's an open street and he's standing there.
I think most of the earlier posts to you in this thread were meant in good will, probably written quickly and without a thought how they might be taken in a defensive posture. More like a slap on the back, we've been there, good show, feel's good don't it, kind of thing.
15 or 16 well, accurate construction takes a attentiveness to detail and it'll come out in a person one way or another.
Hope to see you walking the street here more often. It's really a pretty good road.
For 400 bucks, all I can say is you beat me to it.
Your remarks about the 'cat on "Deal of the Century" are right on the money!
Good insight.Average Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
>>I started a post that I thought was positive and thought maybe I would hear from others who have come across some good deals and were excited about them.<<
Okay, I'll toss in my "deal of the century", even though it was last century- '98 or '99 as I recall. Girl who had been babysitting for us said her mom was having a garage sale- would we mind coming over to look? Seems next to nobody had stopped in all day, and her mom was depressed. So we went. Typical crap, used baby clothes, toys, old kitchen junk, etc. Just to make her feel good, I buy a couple of old shovels- I can always use an extra shovel, right?
Her mom says there more tools in the shed- want to take a look?
Tools? Did you say tools? Sure, I'll take a look....
There in the shed is a roll around Snap-on tool chest full to the gills with mechanic's tools. Complete 3/8, 1/2, 3/4 socket sets, wrenches galore, pneumatic tools, the whole nine yards. She says they were her deceased husband's. (I actually sorta knew him, nice guy) The tag on box says $50. I carefully explain that while I would love to buy them, they are worth significantly more than that. What followed was the most bizarre haggling I have done- She didn't want to take more- after a half hour she let me work her up to a hundred bucks- but insisted that she cook dinner for us as part of the deal.
FWIW, she became and remains a good friend to this day.
=====Zippy=====
I hate you.
Just kidding. When my late Grandfather retired as a mechaninc he sold his tool collection of thirty some years (all Snap on) to a new apprentice for something like two hundred bucks. When I asked him why he didn't get top dollar. He said. "A young guy needs to catch a break once in awhile, and I don't ever wanna use them again." Fair enough I thought.Whale Oil Beef Hooked!
Keep the faith, dieselpig!
It's sort of like the "give each other lots of BS" that goes on on many jobsites. Most don't mean offence. Take it as a sign that "you're in, man!"Average Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
DP, fwiw, I read the first batch of responses as good-natured job-site ribbing and bs-ing. You haven't seen similar stories in response be/c no one's done as well! Best I've done is $10 off some saw or another, but that was an advertised sale and everyone got it. See, my stories don't hold a candle to yours.
As for a certain other person, be tolerant of those suffering from psychological problems. The Ignore feature is the best way to handle it, unless they keep making #$*&%^ new accounts to circumvent that feature.
Thanks for the seemingly good natured advice/support. Maybe I did take it wrong and if so than it's my fault. The post, "He made the whole thing up" just kinda set me off. That's tough to swallow and felt unwarranted. As far as the other is concerned, I just feel bad for the guy. Thanks for your response.
Hope you knew I was just kidding when I said they were mine :)View ImageGo Jayhawks
Oh crap...I already packed it all up and was ready to ship out! Seriously, yours was the only post I think I didn't geek out about!
>seemingly good natured advice/support.Â
Not just "seemingly," but entirely. No axes to grind with anyone here. Life's too short, an' all that.
Howdy there Dieselpig,
Since you are still so het up about this I had to go back and read it all through again, thinking, Geesh- maybe I said it wrong. God knows that sometimes I say things in a way that gets me mistaken. Now - except for the fact that I didn't include a smiley face or something to specifically indicate the humour - I really don't think that I said it wrong. CAG had already set a hunourus overtone to the thread prior to me and I followed suit with my first two lines. Then, in the third line, I said "Really..." indicatiing a return to sobriety in my comment. That indicates a contrast to the previous statements. The "real" comment in that line was a compliment on your good fortune.
Further, with the exception of Shoeman's challenge(not sure if it was intended as a challenge or as mirth) I re-read everyones comments as in good humour - jobsite style ribbing. I even quickly corrected his statement about the gauges in your defense.
I thought you were more of a regular here and could take a joke - didn't notice how many or few posts you had made until you pointed it out. Take that as a compliment, knowing that I recognized your name. That comes from either making a lot of posts or from making high quality posts.
So keep it up - the quality, I mean!
;)
.
Excellence is its own reward!
Hey Piff, thanks for taking the time to reply. My previous long winded post was a half attempt at an apology directed towards Gunner and yourself. Maybe a direct one was more appropriate. As I did state in my previous post, it was the "he made the whole thing up" line that really boiled my blood. Looking back I can see the humor or at least the intended humor of the other posts, but this one still has me scratching my head. Maybe I'm just dense or maybe words and their intentions don't always translate perfectly through type as opposed to spoken word. No matter what, I am beginning to feel as though the horse has expired and I'm still working her over... so to speak.
....and to all a good night! DP
I used to post a bit more in the past here. Once in the tavern, I was feeling blue around christmas and wrote about how hard my parents lives were back in the hills of eastern Ky. If you have never been there you might not believe how bad it was back in the 30's and 40's. Of course there was some good in the place too, but it was a hard life. Someone called me pretty much a liar about that. I wasn't lying and why would I? No one here knows me. Maybe some might remember my screen name, it's been changed a couple times a tiny bit, but it's meaningless.
Anyway, today we laid to rest my cousin. 50 years old. He was a factory worker in the steel industry, then a carpenter. He had a stroke a few years ago and had to start selling knives at the flea market for some income. Everyone loved him that knew him, except those (a couple or so) that done him wrong. He was 6'7" tall and heavy built FOR REAL, so there werent too many that would mess with him. He died from a heart attack. He had all the classic symptoms, but I guess he didn't think so. God I'll miss him.
ANYONE CALLS ME A LIAR about this is a awfully small piece of work. Keep it to yourself, don't accuse people who you don't know of something you know nothing about.
Sorry, I'm just feeling real bad tonight.
Mark, I hope you feel peaceful real soon.
Ya Mark, sometimes it just sucks. If there was anything I could do to ease things for you I'd do it.
Hope a good nights sleep helps smooth out the rough.
You might be interested in a book called "Ava's Man" by Rick Bragg. It's about his grandfather from Kentucky, who was a roofer, cat fish catcher, moonshiner, hunter, hard drinkin' man who lived a pretty tough life in and around Kentucky. They moved every time the federals got close to finding his "still", to just over the county line, then back again. Tough man, with lots of interesting stories of that time. Rick Bragg is a writer for the New York Times. I caught him on a talk show on TV, man, can he tell a story.
Rod
Thanks. That book sounds really interesting. I'll look it up. My grandfathers were both a bit like that themselves. My Great Grandfather was something else again. There's not a lot of literature about that area of the country, which I consider the last frontier myself.
EDIT: I checked and my library has a copy. I'll pick it up tonight. Thanks again.
Edited 3/4/2003 4:46:11 PM ET by markh128
I hope you find it as interesting as I did. You might also get "Somebody Told Me", a collection of short stories, (some of them hilarious, some heart breaking, some just damn good stories), and also "All Over But the Shoutin", both written by Rick Bragg.
Check out the reviews at :
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-3085148-2377625
I'm gonna have to read "Somebody Told Me" again. I remember tears coming down I was laughing so much, something about pigs or cows flying. Gotta go find it.
Sorry, deiselpig. Don't want to hijack the thread. Congrats on your good luck. Send some my way, wouldya.
Rod
Dieselpig, sorry to have you scratching your head yet over my post. reading it myself, I can certainly see where it might seem like a challenge - at the time it was posted it was just in the spirit of the guys giving you a ribbing, was ment to be sarcasm but that doesn't come through real well in type - as you mentioned in your response to me - why would you lie about it, and how would one minor detail about one of these tools negate your whole post? Like I say, looking back at the post myself it really doesn't look funny - but that was the intention
I have the Paslode impulse nailer myself and have posted here a few times that it is one of my favorite tools - know you will be very pleased with it - have the PC saw also, another fine tool
Once again, sorry to ruffle your feathers, was not the intention
Peace,
Shoe
...looking back at the post myself it really doesn't look funny ...
Getting the right "tone of voice" is tough to do in print. FWIW, when you said that he made the whole thing up, I found it absurd enough that I understood it to be a joke (even without LOL or a smiley (which BTW, I think works better)). and I laughed (but not out loud).
In fact, thinking about it again, I did LOL. So, carry on. A little humor, even at the risk of failure, is worth it.
-Don
Thanks, absurd is what I was going for
I think we need a group hug. FWIW I'm glad I got to learn that you can use both nails in the old paslode. I really meant no harm,just a little kidding by what I thought was a typo.Whale Oil Beef Hooked!
>I think we need a group hug.
I'll watch from the sideline, thanks.
Everybody likes a deal!
Try this, it's worked out well for me on many occasions:
Put a wanted ad in a shopper type paper for whatever you are looking for (works best in any area with a strong economy). Then go look at what you get calls on. Lots of times folks just want to get rid of something that's in the way. If you place the wanted ad you can be fairly certain that there is no other buyer. They take your offer (always offer cash!) or they don't sell the item. Always seems wierd to me, but lots of wealthy people just don't care about the money!
I've bought cars, motorcycles, appiances, tools, etc. using this method. Enjoy!
Average Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
Did you miss your afternoon nap?
Whale Oil Beef Hooked!
Getting into the swing of good deal things here -
I once lived in a neighborhood that had a lot of transient citizens - shoot, I only lived there three or four months myself!
somebody wanted to leave town and had a '68 Mustang for sale. They wanted $500 originally but it wouldn't run and leaving day was at hand. I hearad that they might take $200 and said, "shucks, the tires are worth that much!"
They came over that night, having heard that I was interested, and left with the two bills.
I took the tires and swapped them to my car, fiddled enough to get it running, Found at least a hundred dollars worth of tools in the trunk, and then sold it for $500 a week later.
And I didn't feel any guilt either.
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
this isn't particularly usefull mebbe but there is a flea market in Budaphest where you can buy every tool known to man for less than it costs to ship them home. I bought my dad a metal lathe- small one- for fifty bucks- motor,chucks, cutters- cost about a buck fifty to send it to him