Fathers day weekend scores!!

[BrettJ74]

Well the fathers day weekend started out great Friday evening my wife and daughter informed me that in addition to a gift arriving on Saturday that they wanted to give me some money so I could go out to some estate sales and garage sales.

So naturally I searched around and found the most promising tool sale I could find and headed out first thing Saturday morning. Upon arriving 10 minutes early I noticed some people already walking around the barn so I went in and asked if they had any vises to which they said they just sold one to a guy for $5 but it was the only one they had and they didn't know anything about it.. Well **** missed that but I continue looking and managed to find some nice things.

First it was a cool old Husky 3/8" ratchet.

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Then a 1/4" Craftsman RHFT.

Then I found a nice old Vlchek ball peen.

And a sweet 3LB brass sledge.

Then I found a couple little brass containers.

And finally 2 starrett heads a angle finder, center finder, and I believe a Miller's Falls Square head.

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And lastly a box of sanding arbors and drums

Feeling pretty good I asked the guy how much and he said how about $20. I asked if he was sure, to which he replied this is a 1 day sale and we want it all gone today, so I happily paid the man and headed out to the car. Once loaded up I figured I had better go back in and make another final round.
That was when I spotted this SK Wayne 3/8" set almost compete minus a ratchet

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After browsing around a little more the only other thing I couldn't live without was crazy huge bullet.

So I hit the gentlemen man up on a price for both and he said $10. Done and done.
Feeling pretty good and still enough vise hunting money in my pocket I took off to some other sales.
Nothing much going until I stop at the small garage sale which had a little table in the garage with some tools on it and it had this ratchet laying there.

So a strange coincidence I needed a ratchet from a very specific era of SK tools and found just that not an hour later.
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[BrettJ74]

So after dropping by the parents house for a little while, my dad informed me he had a old box in the shed that was my grandpa's and he figured that I should have it. He pulled it out and I was stoked... a Plumb 9990 Mechanics Chest from the 1940's

This one I am going to take my time and fully restore.

then heading home I was informed that no one was at my house. so once again I thought about the barn sale that was ending today and figured beings I didn't score much else I might as well head out there and see what they had left.
There was a really cool old machinist chest with no markings and a bunch of small odds and ends.
This time I gathered up every cool little thing left threw it in the chest and offered the gentlemen $15 which he didn't hesitate in taking.
Here are some pics of the score.
Before clean up:

The tools:

After some clean up:

So all in all it turned out to be a epic picking day for $45 total I got everything in these pics. I'm very happy but afraid I've used all my good juju and now I won't find any deals for months. Hope every one else hade an epic father's day as well



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[BrettJ74]

Oh I almost forgot my actual father's day gift from my daughter
A Crkt Minimalist Bowie

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A very cool little knife I've been wanting for quite a while now

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[tonyciambrone]

that Husky ratchet is seriously cool...where do you keep it at night?

 

[BrettJ74]

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