A sad sight for us tool guys

[Nolatoolguy]

I have always been looking for a shop smith at a good deal but I always see them go on craigslist for a few hundred if not a grand or more for all the acceseries. Ime not willing to spend that much or do i really have the room an I dont really need one.

Anyway at the scrap yard today scraping some coper pipe we tore out of a old house an as I was getting the weight I see a shopsmith in the pile. I ask the one guy if I could go take a quik look at it. I went over an it had a full box of acceseries an appeared to be in good shape. I asked the guy if I could buy it off them and his boss said that its company policy once its in the pile they cant take it out. What the heck ive never heard that. Times ive been there before gave the guys a few bucks and I pulled a nice steel workshop table out, A grill that all it needed was burners, drill press, large sawmill blade an a few other odds an ends. Well I gues the guys workin today werent willing to work with me. I know I know policy is policy but dang it killed me to leave the shopsmith in the pile awaiting to be scraped.

[OilyRascal]

I'm not convinced it was as much his policy as it was his desire to take it for himself.  If it is in fact BAD "policy", then revert to what/who has worked for you in the past.

[skipskip]

Iron clad rule at all the yards here, even the dang town dump , er recycling center.

once it's in it stays in. all of  it, no exceptions

breaks my heart to see them crush a truck better than the one I am driving

Skip

[Nolatoolguy]

I'm not convinced it was as much his policy as it was his desire to take it for himself.  If it is in fact BAD "policy", then revert to what/who has worked for you in the past.

Sadly that wouldnt suprise me

[Nolatoolguy]

Iron clad rule at all the yards here, even the dang town dump , er recycling center.

once it's in it stays in. all of  it, no exceptions

breaks my heart to see them crush a truck better than the one I am driving

Skip

Yeh, ive never had this problem before. It could be just cause its a different boss maybe an he is by the book. The other times I just handed em a few bucks or little more cash an they didnt see anything. What they did with it weather they told there boss is not my bussniess.

If it is a policy I dont like it at all!

[HeelSpur]

Same policies here, but the guy at the dump always seems to have a nice pile for himself.

[Branson]

Iron clad rule at all the yards here, even the dang town dump , er recycling center.
once it's in it stays in. all of  it, no exceptions
breaks my heart to see them crush a truck better than the one I am driving
Skip

It's a stupid policy and nothing like cost efficient.   I got my ShopSmith from the recycle section of the dump near Santa Rosa.  It's my favorite place to shop.  Instead of going into the landfill, usable things get sold.  Some of what goes there is creamed and taken to a dump-owned second hand store in town.  My thumb hole Disston saw and my Bridgeport nail puller made it to the store.  I caught the ShopSmith as it came off the truck at the dump.

[geneg]

Back in college (MANY years ago), I worked at Sears as a mechanic.  When things were slow,  we got transferred to store utility tasks.  Back then,  Sears didn't rebuild-for-resell any power tools.  One afternoon, we were given the job of disposing of a janitors cart about 3' x 3' x4' full of returned drills, power hand saws, grinders, impacts, etc.  We  had to hit them with a sledge, cut off the cord, and throw them in the compactor.  These tools had chucks, blades, switches, brushes and many other useable parts.   We were told that it was considered theft to rescue anything.   This was a very sad day.  We were paid about a hundred dollars to dispose of thousands of retail dollars worth of tools.  Several years later,  I saw the factory rebuilds show up in the Sears tool sales.    Too late to save Sears, but that's another story.

[Ken W.]

The scrap yard here lets me rummage thru everything.I have taken some really expensive equiment home for next to nothing.Those shopsmiths are on the Buffalo Craigslist all the time for pretty cheap.Most of the ones for sale that I see , the seller just wants them out of a basement.

[EVILDR235]

When i still lived in California i was working in a wrecking yard.
Whenever we hauled a load of scrap in to the scrap metal buyer, i would get out of the truck and walk around looking for goodies. Some of the better things i picked up was a WWII Cadillac tank engine, a 1964 Chevy 409 engine that was missing one cyl. head, a model A Ford 3 speed transmission, a 33 Ford carb, a set of 406 Ford factory cast iron headers, lots of misc. old time aftermarket alumium intake manifolds, lots of old carbs, a set of Fenton cast iron headers for a 235 Chevy 6 engine and many more goodies. That place still there, but under new owners and they won't let you buy anything.

EvilDr235 

[Ken W.]

There is a Shopsmith on the Rochester Craigslist for $250.00 or B/O.

[1930]

If anyone ever sees on in Fl for that price please let me know, I have wanted one for a long time.

[Nolatoolguy]

There is a Shopsmith on the Rochester Craigslist for $250.00 or B/O.

Dang thats not bad

In the chicago area if you find one for 300 its just the base an motor or something wrong with it. A complete package can go over 1,000 Right now theres one listed for 1475 an one for 1100 then the rest of the shop smithes listed are real bad condition an mainly for parts

[john k]

I just now checked the local CL, found a nice looking Shopsmith for $150, another for $250, and several for a thousand.   One of the cheap ones they said the motor was slow.  For a thousand, it comes with blades, attachments, and accessories.   Something unusual about the motor on these?

[Ken W.]

Buffalo Craigslist - Shopsmith Attachments : band saw , planer , belt sander , biscuit joint maker. $ 850.00 or b/o.   
     
25zd3-3171602051@sale.craigslist.org  .