Have not posted in a while, been working most weekends the past few months, so I have not had a chance to get out to any sales until the beginning Of January.
Anyways, I hit the ******** perfect storm of family doing their own estate sale, and hardly anyone showing up till later on Saturday. The sale was advertised on CL as, "estate sale, tools, buy one, get one free" no pictures, just an address. I show up at the place 45 minutes early, and I'm the only one in line, well, and my wife, who comes yard saleing with me from time to time. The house and property look like a bomb went off. Apparently the father was a major hoarder and bought all kinds of ****, and there was **** everywhere. In the next ten minutes, two other people show up. A guy who looks to be in his early 20's comes out, says sale is the yard and garage, come on in. Wife heads for the kitchen **** in the yard, I head for the garage. I literally had to climb over ****, and team up with the two other guys to move **** out of the way to get to the garage door. It's the old Model T kind that has double swing open doors. We get the door open, and its waist high in ****. There's 2 big roll away's toward the back. I don't waste a second and start climbing over with my bucket, one guy follows, the other say's, "**** that" and heads for the yard. I hit the larger roll away, and it is a mix of cheap ****, Snap On, Mac, and different makers like, bonny, Armstrong, Plomb, you know the drill.
I fill my bucket in a few minutes and start using anything in the garage that will hold tools. The other guy is doing the same. We get a good 20 minutes before anyone else shows up and ventures in. I start dragging out my loot, call over the wife, and have her watch the pile. There was no rhyme or reason to the place. It was like playing Dig Dug. In a bucket full of trash would be a few tools. Dig straight down, find a few tools on the floor. Took me two hours to dig out my haul, at that point my wife was getting pretty pissed, and it was elbow to elbow in the garage, people falling, **** breaking, so I wrapped it up. Put on my game face, fetched the kid running the thing, and asked how much for the pile?
He said $100, holy ****, I nearly **** out a kitten. I gave him the cash, and hauled it to the car. This is the best tool deal I think I have ever got at any yard or estate sale, ever. So here's what I got.
The tools poured out on the bench
60 pounds of 1" copper welding ground cable
A Silentaire Super Silent 30 airbrush compressor. Tested it out, unfourtunatly it does not work. Maybe I can fix it.
Tools sorted out
Snap On
Mac
A crapload of large crowfoot wrenches, A.Plomb, Bonney, and others. Found these all strung on a coat hanger.
A crapload of fitting/service wrenches by Williams, Bonney, and others.