PhysAssist
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- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
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- Tractor
- Kubota B2320
Hi all,
I have read again and again about the awesome deals people have gotten on CL and so over the past year or so, I started doing once or twice a week searches on Search Tempest for some of the implements I thought we could benefit from.
This week, it finally paid off.
I found a 3-point Boom Pole in the local area with minimal rust and no other defects for te asking price of $100 or BO.
The few other items I had found and called about were either gone, or were literally too good to be true and therefore were't bargains in any sense.
When I called the next AM, the telephone number worked, the guy called back, and he still had the pole. We went to look at it and after some banter and pleasant talk, he let us have it for $75!
It looks just like the ones at TSC by County Line (and the King Kutter version on Northern Tool), which are rated at #500, and it has only miminally more rust than the ones they have outside in their yard. Those are both going for $129 plus tax (locally), or shipping (from NT).
BTW! if you ever think of buying something big or heavy from NT, look at their Amazon store, the shipping is discounted on many things compared with the NT online store, e.g., the boom pole shipping quoted at the NT site was $95, and on Amazon, it was $33.
I had planned to fabricate a 3-point crane this year, but circumstances have forced a change in plans.
For anyone in the Upstate NY area, there is another one in Cuba, NY, for the same asking price, but it is totally rust covered. Of course, I am planning to repaint ours either Kubota orange or black anyway....
I really think it will come in handy because I've been laid up since 5/20/13 when all of a sudden my left knee, which had been fine since being replaced in 2010, developed a massive infection requiring emergency surgery on 5/22/13 to remove the artifical knee and clean out the joint, then implant a spacer made of antibiotic impregnated bone cement.
I went home that Friday w/o a left knee for +/- 6 weeks of IV antibiotics every 8 hours through a PICC, (Thank God my wife is an RN and can do the IVs) with (hopefully) another surgery a couple of weeks later to reimplant a knee joint.
Being unable to stand on (or bend) my leg is really keeping me from getting,much done, but hopefully with the boom pole, and the help of my 20 y/o nephew we'll beable to get more done. I had so many plans for getting projects done this year too :-(
But life is what happened while I was making other plans, so my lovely supportive wife and I are taking one day at a time and doing whatever we need to in order to get through this.
Please keep us in your prayers,
Thomas and Patricia
Here is our new tool ('cause without pictures, it never happened):
I have read again and again about the awesome deals people have gotten on CL and so over the past year or so, I started doing once or twice a week searches on Search Tempest for some of the implements I thought we could benefit from.
This week, it finally paid off.
I found a 3-point Boom Pole in the local area with minimal rust and no other defects for te asking price of $100 or BO.
The few other items I had found and called about were either gone, or were literally too good to be true and therefore were't bargains in any sense.
When I called the next AM, the telephone number worked, the guy called back, and he still had the pole. We went to look at it and after some banter and pleasant talk, he let us have it for $75!
It looks just like the ones at TSC by County Line (and the King Kutter version on Northern Tool), which are rated at #500, and it has only miminally more rust than the ones they have outside in their yard. Those are both going for $129 plus tax (locally), or shipping (from NT).
BTW! if you ever think of buying something big or heavy from NT, look at their Amazon store, the shipping is discounted on many things compared with the NT online store, e.g., the boom pole shipping quoted at the NT site was $95, and on Amazon, it was $33.
I had planned to fabricate a 3-point crane this year, but circumstances have forced a change in plans.
For anyone in the Upstate NY area, there is another one in Cuba, NY, for the same asking price, but it is totally rust covered. Of course, I am planning to repaint ours either Kubota orange or black anyway....
I really think it will come in handy because I've been laid up since 5/20/13 when all of a sudden my left knee, which had been fine since being replaced in 2010, developed a massive infection requiring emergency surgery on 5/22/13 to remove the artifical knee and clean out the joint, then implant a spacer made of antibiotic impregnated bone cement.
I went home that Friday w/o a left knee for +/- 6 weeks of IV antibiotics every 8 hours through a PICC, (Thank God my wife is an RN and can do the IVs) with (hopefully) another surgery a couple of weeks later to reimplant a knee joint.
Being unable to stand on (or bend) my leg is really keeping me from getting,much done, but hopefully with the boom pole, and the help of my 20 y/o nephew we'll beable to get more done. I had so many plans for getting projects done this year too :-(
But life is what happened while I was making other plans, so my lovely supportive wife and I are taking one day at a time and doing whatever we need to in order to get through this.
Please keep us in your prayers,
Thomas and Patricia
Here is our new tool ('cause without pictures, it never happened):
ptimist::wave:
