I cannot believe you were able to save all those tools from the landfill. The tools you cleaned up look great and are ready for work. Thanks for sharing this, it was a neat tutorial.
I'm surprised that metal scrappers aren't around that area. In the suburrburbs of Chicago, I see dozens of scrappers, in their beat-up pick-ups, going down my block every week. Those tools would have definitely been recovered by someone here in my area.
I'll bet your grandfather would never have guessed that the house's that he built would bring that much money.. No matter how much money you have there is nothing like finding a bargain.. Some very cool finds on the street.. S.C. thx for bringing us along on another adventure.. take care my friend...
Another tremendous score! It makes me want to move to your neighborhood. You do the world a favor by rescuing all these wonderful old tools to be used again one day. They are so much better than anything sold today. Thanks- another great episode.
A great pleasure is rescuing tools, a few moons ago I worked for the city of Vancouver, BC as a mechanic at their remote landfill. I was there for over 3 years, I brought a “treasure” home everyday. From tools to ingots of nickel to plane props. I still love to restore, or just make a tool work again. Cheers
Great video 👍 That Poor Man’s Flea Market is Gold🟨🟨🟨👍! Finding all those U.S.A. 🇺🇸 sockets,socket set,&hand tools is unbelievable , What a score! You also can’t beat finding a heavy duty jack ,especially in ScoutCrafter red 🟥 , What??😲🤯👍. I would love seeing the clean up on that jack or the socket set and case. Those couple of hand tools 🛠 you cleaned up turned out Fantastic. I especially like those Proto slip joint bent nose pliers you restored and that S-K tools speeder wrench,awesome job 👍. The vintage Craftsman jigsaw turned out fantastic, now it is ready for service again. That has to have a special feeling to know your great grandfather built those houses 🏘 back in the day. That is so cool 👍. I can’t believe though they are asking $1 million dollars and change 💰💰💰for that house 🏠, that is wild. I wonder what your great grandfather would have thought about the house 🏠 he built going for $1million dollars 💰? Awesome clean up of that vintage Rolaids glass bottle , glad to see you were able to save the label & price sticker ✅. Another great shot of Old Glory 🇺🇸 flying in the breeze with that beautiful sky. Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Monday. Have a great weekend. 😃👍👍
That's one nice cache of tools! IMO the shining star was the rolling floor jack, hands down. Now that would be a nice candidate for a restoration and tune-up. Thanks again for another great episode!
Great finds ! In my area I never see anything thrown out except couches that have been sitting out in the rain. My favorite is the S-k sockets and speed wrench. Thanks for sharing John!
1.3 million?😲🤪 That would get you about a 5000 square foot Mansion here in Michigan Love the poor man flee market Have a Jesus filled day everyone Greg in Michigan
Hi John. You are truly blessed. You have such good luck finding things. That was a great tool haul. Would love to see you make that old jack look like new. Have a great weekend!!! 👍👍❤...
Wow all those tools in the trash I’m sure glad you found them and rescued them I’m a mechanic and been watching your show for three or four years I want to thank you for getting me in the hobby of restoring antique tools
SC, NICE HAUL!! I have a similar Snap-On Speed Wrench that I restored a few years back to use. I found that I do use it only once or twice a year. It seems that the only place Speed Wrenches get used on any regular basis is in the Military. I have not seen a Mechanic use one in decades.
My favorite is the hole punch. I’ve worn out a few pair in the upholstery shop. It amazes me the ignorance of people. The money they threw away not to mention the quality of the tools. A good industrial floor jack empties the wallet pretty fast. Congratulations on your little gold mine. Thank You
I gotta tell ya Scout, this throw away society breaks my heart. I should be glad because people like us benefit from it but we can only find a tiny fraction of what gets thrown away, and we can save even less. I watched a video the other day and it claimed to be the only plier maker in Japan, which is not true, but they were making slip joint pliers like the bent ones you found (just straight though) and what struck me was the amount of manufacturing it took to make them. There were a lot more steps than I would have ever guessed. Cheers mate. Stu🇦🇺
Stuart! I saw that video! It was amazing to see so many human touches on every Plier and quality control checks along the way. I even looked them up on Amazon but couldn’t find any. The company was IPS. 😃👍
Very good haul from the poor mans flea market. So much better than having these go to the landfill or scrapyard. I like the leather punch. Very sharp cutters. Dave.
Another unbelievable poor man’s flea market haul 👍 it just keeps getting better and better I love that military bucket actually because my father had one of those when I was a kid and forgot all about it until I saw this 👍
I have a couple of the Gold bond buckets, gypsum was mined in the towns of Clarence and Akron just outside of Buffalo NY. Great save on the tools. It's scary to think of all of the tools that have been thrown out.
Oooooh that first socket you picked up, the S_K Wayne is 1960's. Just like my 1/2 drive set. They dropped the Wayne years later, but those S-K Wayne are the best, so keep an eye out for them. Cool!
John that was a great haul!!! I try to get rusty tools that I find cleaned up with a rotary tumbler I have access to at work. You can toss in sockets and they look great in about an hour!! Do you resell your saved tools? I usually find someone who needs them and give it to them. Great job… keep it up!! Thanks again!
Month...this year has went by fast Mr. John! Wow what a haul from the PMFM! Incredible Clean up on all those...and the how proud you have to feel knowing your grandfather built those houses... I bet he'd be tickled at the selling price 😮 man I'd sell and move south and own a nice farm...real nice farm 🤠👍 have a great weekend!!
The poor mans flea market was good to you! Wow! I'm glad i don't live in the city because I wouldn't be able to contain myself. I see so much in your videos that i just couldn't leave behind. It's sad to see good stuff thrown out. $1.2 million! Wow! I bet your grandfather never thought those homes he built so long ago would be worth so much. Thanks for the video and the great content. I enjoy your walks through the poor man's flea market.
Hey John, As soon as I saw the SK box and the jack I said he's got to take them. I think that the SK socket set was the best find. Years ago I was having a tag sale and my next door neighbor asked if she could join me sense her husband had died 6 months earlier. I said sure. She put out a SK socket set similar to the one you just found and someone asked to buy them and she said $3.00 for it. I jumped in and said that they weren't for sale and gave her $10.00 She was happy and so wasn't but the guy was pissed. Amazing how people though stuff out or get rid of them without thinking or knowing. Later
You, sir, are one of the most fortunate individuals I have ever witnessed, the stuff you find is unbelievable, you found a small fortune in tools, you are blessed for sure, no doubt in my mind. Speed handle was my favorite sir, thanks for the video, you lucky person you.😮😊😂❤
Great tool rescue. They did not need to go to the landfill. I really like Plomb/Proto stuff. So the pliers are my fave out of the bunch. And…I would have been really disappointed if you hadn’t picked up the jack.
I haven't got the means to come be your new neighbor sadly! I like that hose clamp tool that you didn't talk about the most. Probably because I recently needed one and had to buy a junky Chinesium one..
That's a great tip for people like me who sometimes pick up used power tools -- spray the switch with some electrical cleaner. Never occurred to me before. As for the Poor Mans Flea Market, I'm always amazed at the useful, practical and even valuable things people throw away. Are their owners too rich or just too impatient to be thrifty? Some of your finds were top quality names. I especially liked the sockets. I can't imagine tossing out SK sockets. Thank you for keeping these good tools out of the dump.
My guess is that they do not realize what they have. If they don’t use tools they may think they have no more value than yesterday’s newspaper. Also, most Americans seem to judge purchases only by the price and do not consider the difference in quality. It’s as if every tool is just as good as any other tool so which ever one costs less is the best value.
I’m like you I struggle not to take stuff but I’ve got nowhere to keep it. Favourite tool would probably be the jack, would be nice to see it all cleaned up and lubricated . Thanks for a great video as always
Great score! The clean-ups turned out great. Hopefully you have a full set on the sockets. Also glad to here you grabbed the jack. Thanks again, see you next time!
Nice tool finds Scout! Unreal what people will throw out. I would have packed that vintage floor jack away for sure! It looked like one of the better quality, which are quite rebuildable and go for some decent money. Nothing wrong with those S-K tools either. I have some of that vintage and use them often with no problems ever. I live out in the country, so we don't have the poor man's flea market to look through, but if we did, I would certainly partake! Can't wait to see what you dig up next!
NY Real Estate is unbelievable eh!! My Grandfather use to buy Row Homes on 11th St in Brooklyn to flip and give to his Kids!! I think he must have owned every house on the block at one time, he even owned the 2 story gas station on the corner with a car elevator!! I have an Aunt that still lives there!! Back then he would pay about 5 grand a piece for them, now they are selling at 3-5 Million!!☻
That's what's up . Don't u love it. Glad u took the jack. The best is they were all USA 🇺🇸.. The BX is like striking gold. I would run that wire thru my stripper (#1 copper) and then u would get clean Aluminum .. lol great stuff John!!
the Stanley Square with the brass inlay is a nice find. Some of them that look similar (with that brass inlay pattern) are from the turn of the century. I have a "couple" (ok,....four) and use them for wood working projects
Just imagine how much more the house would be worth if it had been a famous RU-vidr known to be working away in the basement. Priceless. Plus you'd get all those lost nuts and screws that shot across the room and under everything.
Nice finds. Those sockets are a gold mine. If you have the time figure out how much those tools will cost if you bought them online. As to the saber saw, I have that model plus several others. For some reason no one wants corded tools. I bought a Milwaukee angle grinder, 1/2 drive screw gun and a 8 inch circular saw for $23 at an auction. I guess they either don't want to work or think battery is the only thing. One of my hole punches which is the one I use most of the time is from England. I like yours as it doesn't have an outside spring for the head changing. Those old buckets are nice. I have ignore the old metal ones because I don't use 5 gallon buckets much, but I watched a people cooking in the mountains of another country and they use those old metal buckets as portable cooking fire rings. I thought, how basic and yet clever. Of for the price of that home, you could have a farm here or a house with a large heated metal fun shop with 1 million left over. Plus you can hunt with a rifle or a pistal larger tha .22. Probably no poor man's flea market as unless in an expensive city, people don't throw out good stuff.
That Brinkman smoker would have come home with me. It is excellent. I rarely find anything in my neighborhood. People are older , no lawn equipment. Mostly old sofas, mattresses and dilapidated furniture.
What a great poor mans flea market find. They cleaned up nicely. My favorites were the German rotary punch and the Craftsman saber saw. Thanks for a great show.
What’s up John great finds and restos brother ✅ I didn’t have a good week this past week a few things but nothing Crazy. As an Avid poor mans flea market shopper I as well take what I see but when someone has 3 Pales full of tools then a black bag that is heavy I’m not gonna lie I have to take a peak and everytime I did in the past there’s always more tools in them and it’s usually the hand tools and parts meaning sockets or chains ⛓️ or random items that’s when you walk away you say to yourself “Wow what a score”😂 - Glad they ended up with you or I would of been searching and maybe me lol 👍🏼 . As long as they don’t end up in the landfill . Ttys thanks for the video.
Sometimes old diagonal cutters came with a notch like the linesman pliers for stripping wire. Heck, I can't find tools that nice at my regular flea markets!
For halloween you could make a really horrible tool! Very sharp edges, asymmetrical grind, leave rust and pitting, bend it wrongly. Enough to scare a guy to tears.
Your Grandpa would be astonished that the house he built 100 years ago ia now selling for over a million $$$$. It would be interesting to know what the materials cost him to build it. My Dad (with help from my 2 uncles) built our first family home in Willits Ca. in 1950, the year I was born. It was a modest 2 bedroom, 1 bath, with garage, most likely about 1000-1200 sq. ft. single story. He worked at a sawmill (there were 4 or 5 in town) and got a good deal on the framing lumber (I doubt if any plywood was used at all). The total cost he spent on materials was $250. Yep. Two fifty. Even applying inflation that only equals about $3200 now.
Incidentally, my Dad was the garbage man locally for years, and I've often joked that the only reason he sold out was he ran out of room to store all the "goodies" LOL (It really wasn't a joke either)
ALways enjoy the poor mans flea market segment. I liked all those brand name sockets. I would have even kept them if they were even the off-brand ones! I also liked that jigsaw.
It's shocking what people throw out, some great saves there, the jack is awesome ! What would your Great Grandfather make of that property price, it's a crazy world we live in !
@@ScoutCrafter So the headline goes something like this "Eccentric millionaire homeowner, trawls the streets in the dead of night collecting old tools left out for the garbage, then returns home with his booty, sits and feeds the local wildlife, then goes to bed as everyone else is getting up for the day !" Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, this guy should have his own channel ! 😉
Another in a series of PMFM scores; seems a person could make more than a living scouring the nightly trash set outs. I’m thinking the NYC trashmen do pretty good. Not sure what a person thinks when they throw out something with value, though dirty or rusty, then have to replace them later at a greater cost and a lesser value, just makes no sense to me. Thanks for the neighborhood tour!
You scared me I thought you left the floor jack, it was the best find, you should restore it in a series of videos, I think the viewers would like to see it.
