American pickers

[Wrenchmensch]

Hats off to you, Papaw, for characteristically first class research, be it a wrench or a wench!

[1930]

900 channels? I dont know what they are doing inmy area but I am down to maybe 5 and glad for it since it gives me time to do more productive things.
I am thinking of putting an antenna on the roof and seeing if that is any improvement over the rabbit ears, any of you guys done this and notice a difference?

[johnsironsanctuary]

Rabbit ears don't work for digital TV. The band range is wrong. Old roof top antennas don't work either.  I bought one of these and now get 40 channels without cable.

http://digitenna.com/

[1930]

Stupid question than, at first I had to have a converter box and now we dont need it and still pick up a few channels. Are these few channels not digital TV channels or maybe its cause our new TV automatically converts it like I think it does

[Carl]

Oh I hate those guys!!
They'll waltz past great tools of all description, possibly great bottles and lamps, cool stuff of all description
and then buy a beat up rusted out sign or part of a ruined motorcycle and don't even ask about the good stuff!
I just want to scream, look down Doofus, look DOWN!!!
  ahhhhhhhh
  yours Scott

Pickers are very specialized: they only shop for what they know. Some pickers look for nothing but fishing lures, others tools, still others old radios. I met a guy who- I swear- picked nothing but electric fans!
The one thing they have in common is the good ones know what to buy and what not to.

[scottg]

Pickers are very specialized:

They don't have to be. I am pretty fluent in about a dozen collectible categories and sharp at 6 or 7. I used to appraise a number of them. 
Its true that just because you know electric guitars, or guitars in general it doesn't help you much with violins  (man do I -ever- know that!! They were always trying to dump fiddle appraisals in my lap).
But still, the more you learn, the more options you have.
    yours Scott 

[Nolatoolguy]

I was just watching a episode and one of the people they were picking bought the contents a old blacksmith shop. They showed the hand crank blower and in the backround you could see the forge and a few of what looked to be blacksmith tongs. One of them went to crank the blower and it was all squeeky as it was sitting outside the past few years.