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100 uses for perfectly good junk!

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JD790

09-18-2004 19:12:14




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Farmall 400 Hub

I have one that is junk....but would make a good patio umbrella base, or a flagpole base, mailbox post holder. or even outdoor table base.

Better hang onto it.....it's perfectly good junk!

Does anybody else have any good junk?




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Bill Craig

09-19-2004 17:51:16




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
Seems that everybody stops by here to get their projects started or finished. 40 years or so of not quite getting around to throwing out this stuff comes in handy. Seems that the last few years I've managed to receive other collector's collections, so now I have 6 barns full, and park 3 cars and the truck outside (all tractors and implements inside!) Wife doesn't complain too much, as when she needs this or that, she's got it in hand in 20 minutes or so. She did make me promise to outlive her, so she didn't have to get rid of all this junk!

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Nat

09-19-2004 07:49:15




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
I prefer to call it currently inactive inventory, Junk seems to leave a negative impression



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Jim@concordfarms

09-19-2004 07:46:32




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
My sister stopped by the other day and came out to the barn where i was working. I've got a 3 by 12 foot work bench that is pretty well covered with 3# coffee cans full of Aguricultural Odds and Ends. (A.O. & E.). She proceeded to explain to me how disorganized my shop and my life were, so I decided to do a little sorting since her next step would be to explain said facts to the wife. I started dumping a couple of cans out on the workbench. I was amazed that I could remember what almost every little part was for. I'm not talking nuts and bolts here, but small parts for the seven different brands of machinery I have on the farm. Just saying here, what's junk to them is inventory to me! Jim.

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TimV

09-19-2004 05:30:07




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
This one hits close to home--I"ve got (literally..) tons of stuff kicking around that I couldn"t bear to part with on the off chance it might come in handy someday. One of the things I love about this forum is the chance to hear what other people do with their junk. My current favorit was from Chris in SE-Ill. a few months ago. He mentioned "hammer trees", which he made from a 4" length of pipe welded vertically to an old disk blade, with 1" wide sections of pipe welded along the sides to stick hammer handles in. I made one and LOVE it--I can store a dozen hammers and only take up about 1 square foot of floor space. I made another one for my pliers, and have made several more for friends after they saw mine.

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Fawteen

09-19-2004 04:06:09




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
I got a hanging planter I made out of an old cast front hub off an F-14, some spacer spools off a wore out disk harrow, and a handful of teeth off an old dump rake. All out of my "junk" pile.

Several folks have tried to buy it from me, wife won't part with it. She also gives me a lot less grief about the "junk" pile down behind the shed.

Fawteen, Life Member of Pack Rats Unanimous...



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Davis In SC

09-18-2004 23:02:09




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
Funny Topic..... I once saw a book "101 Uses for a Dead Cat"... Only one I remember was to use to couple 2 rail cars..... All kidding aside, there is a good use for most junk, better than sending it to China.



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NC Wayne

09-18-2004 19:40:59




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
It's all junk from the day you get it until the day you need it at which point it becomes as valuable as gold. With the value going up that much, if there were only some way to buy stock in everybodies junk we'd all be rich one of these days.....



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JoeK

09-18-2004 19:31:55




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 Re: 100 uses for perfectly good junk! in reply to JD790, 09-18-2004 19:12:14  
It ain't junk,its power,favors,tradin stock etc.My favorite is when a friend stops and says"You don't know where I could get somethin to..... so that.....?After a couple pensive tugs on my chin whiskers and a couple moments of reflection,I then go dig a bit and come up with something that'll do the job.Between that a making something useful out of someones castoffs "junk" is pretty good for me.



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