58” Columbia Metal Shear - $500 (alameda, CA)

That is a heck of a deal.
 
I always consider "I don't know much about it" as a way that the seller is distancing himself from something that he suspects might have problems. That way he can always claim that he didn't know, and is similar to the also popular "selling for a friend." Uh huh.

That said, that is a very good price, assuming that the moving cost doesn't kill the value, but it's probably around 2000 lbs. Best advice, take someone with you who knows what they're looking at.
 
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If that was close to me I'd be on my way. I'm thinking it's well over 2k lbs.. That looks like 1.5" solid steel plate on the sides, and the rest of it looks equally solid. I would guess 4-6000 lbs. Seems you Calli guys have all the great deals. Mike
 
FOMOGO said:
If that was close to me I'd be on my way. I'm thinking it's well over 2k lbs.. That looks like 1.5" solid steel plate on the sides, and the rest of it looks equally solid. I would guess 4-6000 lbs. Seems you Calli guys have all the great deals. Mike
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Over and over I keep seeing shops retiring out and quitting biz here. Especially in SF & LA. And they seem like the shops I worked in where the new machines were the front line but often the machines they replaced are moldering in a corner. There are still old warehouses here that have huge machines sitting under inches of dust. The ad says each side weighs 2500. I’m guessing the flywheels so it’s got to be all of 7,000lbs+. That is why these old machines are being sold for scrap prices, talk about a job just to move them! And yeah it’s sad on so many levels, #1 amongst them is the death of manufacturing.
 
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