Scrapping Lawnmowers and Making money

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Scrapping Lawnmowers and Making money

Postby Thogey » Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:56 pm

I picked up a couple lawmowers for free. I'm pretty sure they are junk and I'm not gonna to hassle trying to make them run. But I it might be a good idea to part them out before scrapping them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-CRAFTSMAN-REA ... 7675.l2557

Any thoughts?

This time of year you can buy all the old lawn mowers you want really cheap.

What other parts of the mower will sell well second hand? This looks like an opportunity
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Re: Scrapping Lawnmowers and Making money

Postby moparal7 » Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:35 pm

You may be surprised how many junk mowers are quite easy to fix. My son picks them up all the time and only junked 1. Bags, wheels,gas tanks, recoil assemblies and maybe carburetors.
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Re: Scrapping Lawnmowers and Making money

Postby hobo finds » Thu Oct 04, 2012 2:42 pm

Not a bad idea! I usually just separate the alum from the steel, but as I am breaking them down anyway why not save parts!
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Re: Scrapping Lawnmowers and Making money

Postby messymessy » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:02 pm

My father-in-law used to make push mowers out of parts he would pick up at the curb. I used one of them for about 11 years.
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