OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Tip & Curb Side Finds My Hard Rubbish Part 4

Hi all just thought I would show you what I have collected this week.










It came to 5 Mowers and 5 Wiper snipers.So I guess there is a few good things I can use.

I wish we had a council cleanup here, I would pay my mates for the mowers they found me... I am starting to get stuff together for a hecktic season if fixing stuff but have bugger all machines to sell nearest cleanup is in october and is 50km away.

How many old grey Ryobi's is that now?

You gave me a few, you mentioned you had some more down there, and now these? Far out, they are all over the place!

What are the two yellow ones?

I think one is a McCullough not sure what the other one is.Yes the Ryobi's do seem to be every where.I don't think I'll get anymore of them.I think there is to many now.I'll leave the rest for the recyclers now.If you don't want them I'll just put them in the scrap pile now.Might great something for them in scrap.

We are into week 3 of 4 with hard rubbish in my council.


I rekon ive got about 50 catchers so far. Makes me cry to thing that even half of them were probably sitting out with a mower that i missed.

So far ive got 2 victas and a alloy base masport.
But i have got a fair pile of wipper snippers probably half a dozen.

I found a few catchers and a couple of other signs of mowers i had mised at an illegal dump site the other day, quite upset!

Jeffery, If you don't want them, I'm happy to take them off your hands, I always have a use for their parts.

Catchers do seem to be everywhere.I could have got more catchers to,but there all the same size and style.Cool Ty I just need about 2 or 3 heads just to fix the ones I got here and then there yours.

Hi I have the same problem as you the council here don't do it either.I believe here you can put it out and then ring the council,but not many people know about that so not much happens.They won't advertise it,it would cost them money then.All this stuff that I have got is about 120km's away on the south coast of NSW.Sometimes you just have to travel to get the good stuff.Before this (and two from Ty) I didn't even know what a free mower was.Everything in my collection I had to pay.So I guess I wanted to feel the taste of free mowers.It's not bad I must say.Better when you get one you really want.Like the last weeks find.

No Worries Jeffery, I'm mainly after the egers.

I will come by wednesday, with the parts I have for you, and grab what you dont want.

I am also still more than happy to try my luck with your evil blower!

OK then if you like I'll get you to take the spare motor and I'm starting to think it could be an ignition problem now.

No Worries, I'll grab that too, and see how i go!

I also have some parts here that may suit.

My council is pretty hopeless, the gutters along my street have been no good for the 5 years I have lived in this street, they charge you through the nose for dumping rubbish at the tip, up the rates by $50 a quarter every year and they find nothing else to spend money on other than replanting the gardens in the main street every 2 months.

Anyhow enough whinging about them, they need to hold a cleanup lol! I will be going to the one in griffith in october, trawlig the streets in my ute. Will see how I go.

That's the way to go.You might just find things that make it worth doing.

I like treasure.

Got a few good things.
Commercial electric burger/bbq hotplate. Its pretty grunge but should clean up. Never run out of gas with that one. And electric is enviromentally friendly, no burning fossil fuels and all that.
A big old single phase welder.
Alloy base masport. Primer carb 3.5hp with the front wheels worn down to almost nothing but the hub. Looks pretty fair and fixable.
I left the 2 hole chip cooker, it had no bowls or baskets in it.

A working bar fridge, had a bit of paper stuck to it that said 'im working'. lol. Gave it to the guy across the road. Most people would have missed it and thought it was a cupboard as it was wood grain finish. I nearly missed it myself.
A saussage cooker. Again had a working label on it. Its a bit dirty and the cable thives got to it before me but i might just wire it back up and check it out.
Got a fairly newish ryobi trimmer and the guy talked me into taking his karcher washer, its working but if you move the cord where it goes in it cuts out. He also had a blower and tiller attachment for an old ryobi so i grabbed them as well.
A homelite trimmer, cord head bagged and tied, engine end bagged and tied with a note inside with something on it about 2 stroke fuel and all that.

A sock knitting machine. Would have to be 200 odd kg worth. Guy helped me load it up, he was stripping it down.

A great stack of aluminium. Shower door frames, door frames, fly screen frames, curtain tracks. Im gunning for as much as i can, you need a lot to make up the weight but its good money by the kg.
Got some brass and copper and stainless as well.

Bob, using electricity instead of gas does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions if the electricity generator is fossil-fuel fired. In the case of Victorian electricity, there is a net greenhouse penalty of around one third compared with just heating directly with natural gas or propane.

[Censored] Rodeobob,sounds like you have had a full day with all that collecting.Well done.I'm doing a bit of the same just collecting metal to take to scrap.

Do you know much about the green one with the Briggs engine?

Any chance you could post the engine model number up?

Green one with the briggs is a viking mower, I have the utility in the same colour scheme and hubcaps. U cant remember what capacity the original engine was though, I replaced it with a old vertical pull 3.5 as it got too smokey.

That green one in question though looks like it could be a copy of a masport base, catchers look almost identical apart from one being white (viking) and one being black (masport)

Joe is right it is a Viking,I believe it says something about being made in New Zealand.I can get the engine for sure,but not until Friday.Mower is still in Batemans Bay.Will be bringing it home this weekend.

You could swing by for a cuppa on your way through?