Cool stuff you have gotten for free!

[shaggymutt1]

I look for deals! all day everyday! Sometimes I get very lucky.

I got this beast free!!

 

[chris142]

does truckdriving school count?

 

[8man]

Got a BendPak 9000 given to me.

 

[Larch]

I got a Proto snapring plier set given to me in Tech. school. That was awesome. I have also had a couple of slide in campers given to me over the years, Oh, and my boat. The boat needed a lot of work to be nice again, but it turned out nice.

 

[930dreamer]

Older Snap On combo.

 

[Buckgnarly]

My greatest freebie....

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117027&highlight=bombardier

 

[Cab037]

My greatest freebie....

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117027&highlight=bombardier

Well, that's cool. Everyone needs their own snow tank....

 

[panknuckshovel]

If animals count, these two varmints were free.

 

[jeffmoss26]

All kinds of wire, phone and data jacks, old phones and phone systems, computer stuff.

 

[picshooter]

Education and advice from my first boss / mentor. Better than free as they came with a paycheck.

 

[shaggymutt1]

Oh also this old man gave me a VW exhaust clamp tool free!

 

[BirdMobile]

Bought a tool box at a yard sale, got ready to pack it in the car. Dude was unloading his tools from it, got pissed off and overwhelmed and his girlfriend was nagging him to finish up the yard sale wrap up, bitching about dinner with the parents, yada yada.
Dude said "**** it... go ahead and have whatever's left in the box" and helped me lift the heavy ******* into the back of my car.

The "free" haul:

Mostly rusty junk and cheap wrenches/pliars/screw drivers... but also a bunch of really nice 4-sided screw/bolt extractors, some nice pry bars, half a dozen pin and roll punches, and a snap-on crows foot and 5 snap-on wrenches and sockets.
Cleaning out the box, pulling the drawers, I found a $20 bill that had slipped into the back part of the box somehow! Score.

 

[firebox40dash5]

I look for deals! all day everyday! Sometimes I get very lucky.

I got this beast free!!

Nice, I got the chainsaw version of that free years ago. Had a guy bring it helping me on a tree job for a day, he left it in my truck for the next day, and just ****** disappeared from then on. Kept it in my shed for him for about 3 months, then figured he gone, it's mine.

does truckdriving school count?

If we're counting that... I got my motorcycle course free. Technically paid me since OR gives you a $25 coupon for a Harley dealer on completion.

 

[aka Larry]

My 9KOH lift from GSE was free. A friend got it for me.

 

[Stuey]

My Beta tool cabinet.
=)

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81930&p=1198591&postcount=60

 

[farmall400]

This set of bronze soft jaws I got not too long ago.

 

[ATC]

Steel!

I've gotten a couple more truckloads of nuts/bolts, steel beams, conduit, sprinkler pipe, buckets of self-tappers, etc., that they were throwing away when they added 36,000 sq-ft to our warehouse.

 

[HairMetal]

I live close to some welding and machinists schools.I go through they're scrap metal bin sometimes and find useful stuff.

 

[colt zantop]

had a tenant at one of my rentals leave this...


cant wait to restore it!

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249131

 

[NorCalWrenchin]

My boss was going to sell me this 3/8s torque wrench the other day, and then he told me just to take it!

 

[shaggymutt1]

Bought a tool box at a yard sale, got ready to pack it in the car. Dude was unloading his tools from it, got pissed off and overwhelmed and his girlfriend was nagging him to finish up the yard sale wrap up, bitching about dinner with the parents, yada yada.
Dude said "**** it... go ahead and have whatever's left in the box" and helped me lift the heavy ******* into the back of my car.

The "free" haul:

Mostly rusty junk and cheap wrenches/pliars/screw drivers... but also a bunch of really nice 4-sided screw/bolt extractors, some nice pry bars, half a dozen pin and roll punches, and a snap-on crows foot and 5 snap-on wrenches and sockets.
Cleaning out the box, pulling the drawers, I found a $20 bill that had slipped into the back part of the box somehow! Score.

That reminds me, I bought a tool box a while back and the guy lost the key. Well he had pried the lock out but 2 drawers stayed lock. I turned the lock rod to open the drawers. One drawer had snap on vacuum gauge, SO test light, mac test light, piston ring compressor, injection pump dial adjuster, hone,snap on seal remover and some metal doolies. The other drawer had about 100 of the twist on 2 and 3 in sanding pads and about 50 aircraft quality drill bits!

 

[shaggymutt1]

This set of bronze soft jaws I got not too long ago.

So what are those used for?

 

[bfm336]

Was at a yard sale a year or so ago and asked if he had any hunting stuff, he said no but did give me about a brick's worth of 22s he had in his garage (had already sold the rifle).

 

[SantaAna12]

When I was 16 I lucked out and was hired to pump gas by a new owner of a medium sized Union oil gas station in Marina del Rey Ca. Over the next several years I watched him grow that gas station into....according to the Union Rep that visited often.....the largest--by volume and sales--Union gas station west of the Mississippi. He was very good to the people that worked for him, and was the hardest worker there day in and day out. First in....last to leave....(mostly).....managed to stay relatively clean while assisting the four full time mechanics and a lube guy, helping the service writer, handling affluent demanding customers, and supervising four or five OPG 24 hour tow trucks at the same time. Just a natural leader, and a helluva hard worker. I managed to talk him into letting me do lubes....etc....and learned alot from him, in a relatively short amount of time.
He was a man I looked up to and gave me far more than the wages he paid me.

 

[930dreamer]

And this Blackhawk S4 jack.

 

[PETE14]

2nd coolest thing - I quit a job several years ago and my boss gave me a near new Fluke digital meter as a parting gift.

Coolest thing - a motorcycle! I was helping my landlord at another of his properties, and in the neighbors yard, leaning against the outside of a shed, with a tarp half covering it, I see a cool old small Kawasaki. The rear wheel was off, and it was covered in leaves. I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but looked early '70's and on/off road. I casually told my landlord that I thought it was a neat bike, and wondered it the owner was ever going to do anything with it. It had been in that same spot for who knows how many years. The neighbor happened to come out not long after, and we started talking about it. His response was "that old thing? I've been trying to get rid of it for years! If you want it, take it. I was like "hell yeah!" It turned over fine, and started and ran very well after much cleaning and TLC. He told me his kids stopped riding it when they got a flat tire. He even had a title for it.

 

[shaggymutt1]

I wish someone gave me a jack!

 

[bulletpruf]

Have a free Daelim 125 motorcycle that someone abandoned in our parking lot. Serves as a backup vehicle.