On Wed, 01 May 2013 19:17:47 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Wed, 1 May 2013 20:11:28 -0400, "ATP"
wrote:


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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I have a steel "pallet box" filled with new old stock v-belts that
needs to go away. Long ones, short ones, A/B/C v-belts of all types
and styles

Got machinery that needs V-belts? Come and get this box for free and
you deal with sorting them out. Take what you dont need to the swap
meet, stockpile em, etc etc. Get em off my hands. The box is 4'x4' x
5' tall and is about 2/3rds full. Probably 2000 lbs of v-belts of all
types. They are about 10 yrs old..but have never been used. Got a
factory/facility that uses belts? Come and get em. Free-Free-Free. You
simply have to take them all.


*****

County is on my ass because of a complaint in 2011...2 yrs
ago..between me and an ex neighbor who thought one of my dogs killed
one of his (it wasnt). He couldnt find anything else to "get me "...so
he complained about that cargo container..which has been there since
2008ish.

Ive got an empty lot beside me that I have permission from the owner
to "if you keep it neat and mowed..you can use the back of it behind
the row of trees in the alley" So I put a 25' cargo container back
there, a small sailboat, a utility trailer and that box of v-belts.
Cannot be seen from the street. Now the county finally got around to
addressing the complaint from 2 yrs ago.

The neighbor has moved away..but the county wants me to remove the
"illegal dumping" and gave me 7 days to do it.

Horse****, ain't it?


It sucks when you're under pressure but it can be a blessing in disguise. I
got rid of a lot of stuff recently and I don't miss any of it. In fact I
should get back to ridding myself of "material surplus to current needs".

I brought in a couple grand last year offloading my accumulated goods
for projects I never started or never finished. Craigslist and eBay
both work fine. AAMOF, I finally bought the idler bearing (for the DP
you gave me/we restored) over 2 years ago and have never installed it,
even after selling the 8" HF DP 6 months ago. blush


I buy and sell machinery, and fix it for a living. Im not retired, nor
am I in any position to retire and will likely die on the job in the
far distant future,

So, such Stuff is part and parcel of what I do, and how I generate
income. Particularly in this economy.

Ditto, dude.


And Im feeding 6 adults and 3
grandkids, as well as a ****load of dogs and cats.

One simply doesnt run them all off or kill them. Its not polite.

Yabbut, one has to practice their shooting skills...
Or are you thinking "It's all food in a WROL/TEOTWAKI situ..."

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
-- Sir Winston Churchill