What's the best barter you've made on small engines?

I'll start this one off.



I had a guy call me and tell me he had a Troy-Bilt Weedeater that he and his brother tried to fix (Words that make me laugh, kind of like "It ran great 4 years ago, the last time we used it"). Anyway, this guy said "Just come get it, it's yours."



I go to his house and he left it of the front porch with a bag tied to it.. Uh-oh me thinks..



I got it home and looked in the bag and it was all the plastic parts that covered the engine. I put them all on and had to dig through my parts stash and find one screw.. Put fresh gas it it and it ran great.



The next day, a guy calls me, he ran a house cleaning business on foreclosed homes.. He had 2 4000kw generators, one fairly new, one old Tecumseh.. Had 3 Toro mowers, 3 weed eaters, a compressor (Never got that working) and a chainsaw.. I was seriously doubting I'd be able to come up with enough cash for this deal but, I asked him what he wanted..



He said "I want a good weed eater.."







An hour later I had my pickup truck and my 4x8 trailer overflowing with new goodies..



Sold the newer generator after putting gas in it and locating the fuel shutoff (He didn't even know it had one) and it ran like a champ..



Kept the other 4kw for my mobile van.. Gave the compressor tank to my buddy for a fuel cell for one of his custom cars, sold two of the mowers for $100 each, the weed eaters needed some work but, I think I might have put $20 in parts in them and rebuilt the carbs, all sold for $65 each..Still have other stuff left over for parts..



If I can find a couple of deals like that, I'll be in the plus column every week..