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What to do with old kit

Just a quick question, I have a load of old kit I am thinking of clearing out, 3 x old hayter pros, hedge cutter, some ladders, and general bits, would you bother to try and sell them or would you just launch em, I put it down as my time is money so selling them will take up my time which could be used else where, but the wifey is telling me she thinks I should sell them, I'd rather spend the time in the garden lol, all the mowers run but need services, but it's money I don't want to invest in old kit just sitting around, dilemmas dilemmas , your views????

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  • How old? How much? Where ru based.
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    Vern
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    Hahaha, I wasn't actually trying to sell them on here, I really was after what other people do with their old kit, and if they bother to sell them, I will have a look at the years on the hayter pro's tomorrow...:-)
  • I'd stick them on ebay. A good job to do on a bad weather day. If everything runs you can always say that they would benefit from a service, if you don't want the bother of doing it before selling them. At the end of the day even if you only got £50 each for them, how long would you have to work to earn that compared to 10 mins listing them on ebay? You could probably list the lot in under an hour during the evening and potentially earn a day or mores money from it.

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      • One mans junk is another mans gold....
    • Spot on Chris - and there are always plenty of bad weather days!

  • I would defo be interested in a hayter. Spare mower or one for home etc. 

  • Personally I try to service all my old kit in winter - Ive got a Etesia thats had its day, and still works but is pretty much shot.... a bit rattley, bearings all gone, drive slipping, engine problems in cool weather. (It is a 2005 model so had good use)

    Its going to go every day in the van along side its 2012 model replacement and be used first, every time..... Until it dies. Then Ill bin it - its unfair to sell something that’s that shot, even if your honest and sell it as spares -----

    Ill take wheels off, all cables and wires, fuel tank, carburetter and nuts and bolts for the spares box... everything else gets chucked.

    With other tools (stimmers etc) I usually sell them on ebay after 3 years while I can still get SOME value from them towards new... older than that and their usually shot.

    Otherwise same as mower... use until they die.

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    If you're looking to buy the same models of everything you could always keep them for spare parts?

  • Ebay is the way as most suggest, the way i look at it is you are getting rid of clutter , making a few quid for little time invested but importantly in todays throwaway society it is giving others a chance to renew / restore interesting bits of kit that they have time for, rather than it ending up in landfill  or scrap merchants. Look at it as recycling

  • PRO
    Will have to have a little think about this, 2 of the pros are around 2004 models, still running but not reliable for everyday work, I don't think I'd want anything for them, if I knew they would be going somewhere where they will get a second life and not just sold on then I'd rather donate them as such... Will think on this...
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