Request: Beginner's Guide Make Money Selling Mowers
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2016
- Requested by Braden Lehman. He wanted a general explanation of what I do from acquisition, to fixing, then selling.
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I've join the fraternity. After fixing my dad snowblower last year, via you tube. I thought I'd give mowers a try. OMG, they are so easy. I can't believe what people throw away or sell cheap. Now I wish I had a bigger garage than my stupid single car one. Thanks to all you tuber mechanics, for your information.
I agree. I have wanted to tinker with lawnmowers for years now. Now that I have more time. I go on UA-cam and have learn a lot. I now have fixed and sold as well. This awesomely easy and fun as well. Thank you to the mechanic on UA-cam that share.
There's tons of easy money to be made in this market. I pick them off the side of the road (lawn mowers, snowblowers) and most of the time, they need a carb rebuild or a new carb. You COULD buy the genuine OEM part from the manufacturer or get the cheap Chinese knock-off for a 1/10th of the cost. Put a plug in it, change the oil.
I have about $15-$30 into it and sell them for around double that depending on their features.
Just doing this as a hobby, I "salvaged" 10 lawn mowers and 4 snowblowers from the landfill and spent about $200 to make them run and sold them for a total of around $800. Not shabby for just junk picking!
This has by far been the best video of this style with the most amount of information. Thank you Sir!
Great advice. I've watched tons of small engine repair vids, but you are one of very few with this kind of helpful info. I'm putting this advice and know-how into use this spring and can hopefully get a start on trade ins. Thanks Hank.
youre welcome, glad it helped!
I love your parts shelving! It’s organized and neat. I need to make something like that! Thanks for the great video.
I worked on these small engines back thirty years ago , since retiring got back into it again . To my benefit have friends I've meet that have some stock piles of buildup of inventory of used parts . Buying new replacement parts can kill your profit when working on one to resale I know , but sometimes you have to do what you have to do . I'm leaning that the one's I can call on for used parts locally now . Thanks good video too .
Enjoyed the video, I love getting trade ins keeps my inventory up or at least parts. Just found out the blade adapter that has the pulley attached for self propelled is at least $40 new, had no idea it was that pricey.
You great videos, and I enjoy watching them . It is as you said in one of your videos that it is very easy to work on. Thanks again and please make more videos.
You are the man I've done what you said and it worked out great post a lawn mower for sale and if you bring in your old one will discount the price
👌👌👌👌 awesome man!!!
Got a lot of useful information from you in the past. Now, I also fix and flip mowers. My rate of mowers is $1 per engine cc.
Perfect video except I believe you leaned the mower over with the air filter down. I only mention it for other people learning how not to soak the air filter with oil. I learned and confirmed years worth of info on how to flip. Thanks so much for the great video!
Good video. It's very easy to find a problem, and wind up with a "keeper". Pressure washers have been pretty lucrative lately, but the flea bay supplier almost doubled his prices. No meat on the bone left for me. Other sellers will step in, prices will drop, and I'll be doing some more, I'm sure.
Thank you for boosting my moral, you are great. If I had my way, I would have come to you and say THANK YOU
I love Mowers 💘 I repair mine too. I will try to go further. God bless you.
Thanks ! Great video going to be looking at a used lawn sometime soon this is everything I need to know
I had 1 gummed up so bad it had the fuel line that was collapsing. And hey good advice. I fix an resale too in Atlanta
I've been finding a ton of mowers at the local scrap yard. there are three in town that don't mind you taking apart mowers for parts or buying then whole for around 10-16$.
Can't give a lawnmower away for free here. I'm about the only person in my neighborhood who still cuts his own lawn, even houses with little postage stamp lawns have a lawn service 'round here. Our local Craigslist is loaded with self propelled mowers that are under 4 years old with all the accessories for less than $100, doubt you'd even get $50 for a clean push mower. Guess everyone's afraid to sweat a little anymore!
Good Info... I usually get them free from folks that just go out and buy new ones... and like you said just clean the carbs and clean up with some simple green and BAMM.. Market it on Craigslist and SOLD Easy $
Hank also said these things can nickel and dime you to death. I've got three right now that each need $65 - 80 worth of parts, then they'll each be worth $50. Cables especially are deal breakers. But yeah, usually I can clear $20, and it's a good hobby that breaks even. I've even stripped a couple down and painted them, kinda wild, in the spring we'll test that market appeal. But there goes ten man hours plus the paints. Anyway, continue to kick ass.
always tip a lawnmower over carburator side up so oil doesent saturate the filter or get in the float bowel. Anyways love your vids, keep em comming
+Travis Wagner people have said exhaust side up too due to oil filling up the valve spring area and causing issues. Oil is supposed to go on the filter anyways to be honest but I've never really had them leak oil into the carb that way either when it has it was maybe a teaspoon or so. Regardless thanks for watching glad you like them
Great Video .... I've sold about 700 dollars worth of stuff in the past month that's been sitting around . Where I live the average sells on rider mowers is 200 to 400 dollars for one in good condition . Push mowers depending on the brand 50 to 200 dollars . I sold my Scotts 16/42 rider I bought new in 1998 from Home Depot to a friend I work with for 350 , with a new deck belt and blades and service . That price is average on those comparable size mowers . A lady at work has an old Murray 12.5 horse and 38 inch deck that's been sitting for 3 years , and wants 100 dollars , that no deal and she thinks I'm trying to steal it from her !!!! People don't understand you will have more in a mower than it will sell for ... Good luck with a great season Pal !!!!!!!
not bad man thats a decent haul for sure
Great info man! definitely helping some people out with this.
+Alan Marshall hopefully!
I've done this before but around here in the spring/fall you can find mowers on the side of the road with "free" sign on them. 99% of the time either carb is gummed up with crap or bad fuel either just turned sour or with water in it from sitting out in the snow all winter. Basically every one of those is a free $50 bill sitting on the side of the road
I generally scrap useful parts from anything I’m tossing out so your “parts inventory “ makes a lot of sense to me. I also gather metals and drop off a truckload at the scrapyard a few times a year. It usually gives me a free tank of gas. Next time I’m there I’m going to see what they do with discarded mowers. I bet there’s a bunch there that just need some TLC.
Thanks very good information.
Hank's garage is my favorite UA-cam channel
Thanks for the info im new to this and appreciate everything u said
Hey sorry i am a little late to the video, (been kinda busy with work and what not right now), but i liked this video. i appreciate it a lot that you took the time and did one. Now i just hope i can try to put those ideas and tips to good use and hopefully see what i can do. Thanks!
No problem man glad you got some use out of it and hopefully other people will too. These videos are kind of difficult because it involves me getting all my thoughts as best I can together not even at the end of it I still left out a couple things but hopefully I got all the main general points. I think I did
+hanksranger lol you got my seal of approval
Guess I live in America's lazy belt, you can't give away a good pushmower.
Down in Arkansas y'all never see a shiny muffler they're always rusty.
I have been repairing and selling mowers for many years now. I started working on them back in 1997 when I went to school for them. I have a bunch of old ones laying around and my wife gets after me to trash some of them occasionally. I can get about 35-100.00 for them depending on the condition.
Paul Brown that's cool man. Yea it's a fun hobby at the very least
Involve her more; she might change her mind:)
I loved working on mowers will get back into it one day
Mechanics around here charge $75 / hour labor fee. I can make a lot of mistakes and still make money. 😀
@@cwmaxfield2000 the uk market seem to be heading towards battery power then chuck it away
I am slowly starting this kind of thing with vacuum cleaners, I am sure this can apply to that :)
Great video. I started in fall of 2015 averaging $300 a month. Now I average $1500 a week just on free mowers. I do sometimes buy them for under $20. I usually service, clean and polish them before selling. A clean mower sells quick and a polished mower even quick. Great hobby!!
thats great man, wish I had that much of a demand here its pretty good but I usually run out of stock pretty quick
yea man i started by fixing my dads pressure washer jus watchin youtube videos nd from there i took off ive fxed mowers blowers weedeaters generator nd even a go kart for my lil bro not to mention the 100’s ive made buying cheap nd reselling for more
Hank, can you do a video just like this for riding mowers? Thank you
I would like to thank you Hank for show me how to fix mowers and all the other UA-cam that I've seen and I'm thinking about starting up my own shop what do you think
Nothing wrong with starting your own shop man!
Gasoline is the same way here in Arkansas too , not cutting people down - but people just don't know how to take care of there power equipment. They let it sit outside in all the elements and expect it too last and run - and another thing they think that there mowers are worth $20 , 30 , even $40.00 not running - crazy .
I'm from Arkansas too
Yeah. I find the parts on parts websites, but buy them on amazon. Saves a lot of money.
Crisp Cuts Landscaping quit moving the camera so I am dizzy
Not when you include shipping to Canada!
This is a Great cottage industry. Its nearly impossible to find good small engine mechanics in my area. Ive found my niche as a part time home based business.
How come when I try to pull motor bolts snap off all 3..did I do something Wong.
they all do that ive done it to so many mowers but ur suppose to heat them up nd cool but even then i break sum
just curious, do you do an oil change and basic tune up to all your mowers before you sell them? i started doing this and it doesn't seem to matter to most. i have found more satisfaction out of it rather than just getting it running, going through it and cleaning it up. it costs about 10$ more per mower however on average but i see most my competition here does not.
about 80% of the time I do. I advertise that my mowers are fully serviced up when I go to resell them, idk if it actually helps with selling them but it can't hurt I guess
I do the same thing. I feel it's good service for the customer.
I always change the oil since its cheap and if you tell the customer the oil is changed or show them the dpistick they think it is a better cared for mower.
yeah I have gotten lucky. I got a real nice john deere sabre last year for free no rust. all it needed was a 30 dollar starter and I could get 500 to 600 right now for it. it's too nice to sell its mine now.
Dam $120 and I bet you didn't put more than $20 in it.
I noticed you had a edger frame back there knext to the mclane,it's from the fiftys is it for sale and is it salvageable? ? I'm looking for one along with any okd reel mower parts a long with cooper klipper mowers.
it was salvageable but was bought by a collector locally.
I’ve given my mower a tune up but it bogs down when it’s being used. Some white smoke and black smoke. Seems to run better when I take the air filter out. What is going on? Needing some help .
Clean the carb out. 90% of the time that’s the culprit
Thanks for the vid's
They should run the mower out if gas when it is being stored for winter. Also, I bought a working lawn mower for 20$ it is a Craftsman silver series and all it needed was a clean or new air filter. I sold it for 90$
I get 99% of mowers for free. Spend little or nothing on them, rarely change the oil, filter, or sharpen the blade. Just clean the carb get them running decent & sell them for a fair price depending o overall condition. Overall it's a solid money maker!!! ☺
The mower market here has been crashing lately. I was able to sell 2 at full price, but one had an MTD transmission shit the bed in a week and I had to refund. I did sell another mower but I had to go down on the price. Recieved no trade ins however. And due to the covid 19 outbreak, I was unable to sell the last mower I had.
Yea ours has been crazy right now.
hey bud great videos. I allready fix and sell in minnesota. I also do tractors too. I'm not very good with electrical yet on riders. and I need to get better cause I have 2 now that have electrical issues.
+peter55343 Thanks man, sweet it's easy money for sure. Yea lawn tractors often time are not worth it to mess with around here sadly, if I had alot of tractors on hand to pull parts from that would be much different
I get 300 to 500 a tractor here. Get them free or or 50 bucks or so. I got a really nice dixon zero turn last year for free. I have 10 riders and 20 push mowers left to fix lol.
peter55343 ya you have more than I do, here I have only ever picked up one for free and another for 25 bucks... people just dont part with them all that easy around here.
best thing you can do for the electrical is get a digital voltmeter and start checking resistance at the brake, deck height and seat safety switches. the ignition signal on some of these has to travel through all those switches to pass signal to the solonoid from the key switch. sometimes its a ground that kills the signal if not isolated via the switch or sometimes its the actual voltage signal that passes through the switches. i always work from the starter back with voltage checks until i hit the key switch. if nothing i check the battery for proper ground and its connections. if still no signal from key switch i ohm out the switch to check it, if thats good then i start checking connectors and switches wires etc.. this will usually lead you to the issue. these are pretty simple for the most part, you have a solonoid that needs a 12v signal from the key switch, this signal is passed from the battery. given the different variations you have a few safety switches to check out but once you get to doing these youll figure them out. if it cranks but no start thats usually a seat switch as it most the time is wired to the coil to kill it in case you fall off. if it does not crank at all its connection, deck height, brake or blade engagment switch or possibly a bad ignition switch or dirty one.
Great info. As a hobby I am starting to do this but on a much smaller scale. I love to work with my mind and hands and fix things. Just wanted to ask what do you think of electric mowers? I know the resale on them I my area is almost nothing. You will have to give it away for free here In The ATL I get rid of it.
+D Fields yeah that's the one bad thing about electric lawnmowers is they don't have much resell value, however the newer they are and if they are battery powered that can be different. But older ones run by batteries or old or new ones that plug into an extension cord are not worth all that much. Personally I think the market on the consumer end is going to gravitate more towards battery powered lawnmowers and equipment. The technology has definitely improved and for your average consumer that will never change the oil in their lawnmower it is suffice to say that this is the best option for them. Most people these days don't bother to maintain their gas powered equipment sadly.
Just a quick question apx how many mowers do you selling in a given season/year? Just curious, just a ballpark range.
+D Fields it varies some months 15 or so depending on how many I have on hand. Other months I'm lucky to sell 2. Depends on the time of the season. Average maybe 5 or so
My man thank you so much for providing useful information and it sounds like you got a good thing going have a nice day
Do you buy any straight up? Working or non? If so, how do you appraise those? How do you appraise riding mowers?
Sometimes. It depends on what it is and what it needs. As for lawn tractors it’s rare. Unless they do t need much and they normally need a lot done they generally aren’t worth it. Parts for them are a lot more pricey than for push mowers and not near as interchangeable.
Yeah my dads 9 year old briggs "classic" is starting to get rusty and we fixed it but it still is wobbly and creaky i actually used my personal mower for the first time in a few months the other day and yeah it was nicer but dad wants the lawn mulched lol so mine are just sitting but i keep telling him if it rusts out dont scrap the whole thing the motor is worth something and has many applications it even has the carb with a adjustable throttle speed on the front of it so i intend to steal the carb whenever he scraps it im actually surprised he rarely does any maintenance to it and its never had the carb serviced but still runs mostly good.. alright enough of my rambling lol
+Theghostmaster 87 yup, always worth pulling parts off
Hi Hank I found a weedeater 20 inch push mower on Craigslist for 15 dollars and the guy said it needs a carb cleaning do you think that is a good deal for a guy wanting to fix up and sell mowers?
a 20 inch mower serves it's purpose. i have a swimming pool that's half into a hill with a deck and you can't beat a nice light 20 inch for getting in and around and up and down the hill. almost sounds like a sales pitch.
Where's a good place to get the cables? I got a MINT 98 Bolens with a Briggs, 22" deck, mulching blade and such, gonna use it myself, but the cable is gone. Also, what's a good price to give in general for trade ins if they are in good shape but just don't run?
Amazon 90% of the time is where I get them. I have a prime membership as well which has been handy. You will have to key up the mowers model number into Partstree to get the number for the cable though
Thanks, helps a ton.
i do a lot on ebay but i happen to have a prime account, do you ever run the part numbers on ebay? just curious if your finding better deals on amazon, i rarely use mine for my side work. whats funny is i get almost all my numbers from parts tree like you however. ill start checking amazon more
Yeah older gas engines can't burn Ethanol mixed what are they thinking?
me and my dad do this all the time and some time we get so really rare one like acupl of weeks ago we got a camercal Benton hardly rustuy all original and its got copmreshon to cool right its also fun to
nice
Do you think it is worth cleaning carburetors any more? Because, chances are, cleaning will be futile, as donyboy73 has pointed out. Here in upstate New York, ethanol gas is mandatory. I always stress to my buyers to use a gas treatment religiously.
Hard to say but in the future who knows. I only suspect epa laws will be worse as time goes on
where would i find broken lawn mowers?
Post a cheap ad. You may get swamped. 😂 Amazing what people toss.
it's about business reasons.
just subbed...I do the same as you..repair and also sell.. great video
thanks man, markets kind of in a slump right now no grass growing in hot cali this time of year, should still have some small engine stuff coming
It's summer here in Canada but I'm. Getting Snowblowers now for the season tuneup. .another 2 months and that's it for mowers....I like your channel. It's real. Not alot of fluff
I heard you comment about a gas cap causing starting problems,can you explain that ?
+Guy Aldrich yea it uses negative pressure to draw fuel in. Having a bad cap affects that
Guy Aldrich happens to me in my shop at least once every 2 mounts. It's like you can't suck water from a straw with your finger on one side.
I am new here to the California area, I am in Emeryville CA but I would like to meet you and talk with you, if you are within reasonable distance to me. I enjoyed the video
I'm 14 and I'm interested in starting this I have some questions
1.) where do you store your mowers
2.) should I just spray some carb cleaner to clean the carb
3. how much is the average price for a push mower
4.) what is the average price for a self propelled mowet
You can store them anywhere you have space, ive stored them in my garage or side of house, but most I keep at my dads place seen in the video, carb cleanings you usually need to do full cleanings, ive never had luck just putting carb spray in them, prices are probably different for you, you need to browse your local craigslist and determine what they are going for in your area
+hanksranger ok thank you
Please reply, what is a fly wheel key
www.briggsandstratton.com/na/en_us/support/faqs/browse/inspecting-flywheel-key.html
It's a small clip of metal bout the size of your fingernail. It keeps the flywheel in place as well as the timing correct. Without a key the engine may backfire or not start or run at all. What happens if the power stroke tried to happen during intake? This is why you need a flywheel key.
Which mower engine don’t you care for ?
The newest consumer grade briggs
@@hanksgarage_ I pulled open my friend's mower and it had a plastic carb on it. sugar
Do you have a suggestion for a gasoline additive to add to the junk gas. We have the junk gas in Illinois also. Why wouldn't we with Chicago voted the most corrupt city in the United States of America and Illinois voted number three for a lot of other bad reasons. Thanks for the videos.
I’ve always used and had good luck with stabil
Can you make a new video with all the new tips and methods please
I fix small engines too, mowers to go karts, get them all free and sell them, mostly mowers. But can you do another video on the same topic but with more topics? For example, we are in October right now, Winter is coming up and no one wants to buy a lawn mower, what would you do? Fix them and sell them cheap or leave it for next year to fix and sell on summer? I just don't have enough space to storage them all. Love your videos man.
12:43 I am 100% it belongs to a js63c john deere (black crate left one)
close, js30
Hank's Small Engine Repair Guess js30 wasn't popular I can't find a video or picture of it without the plastic coverings. I have a youtube video of me currently fixing up my JS63c you can see how similar the recoil starter assembly appears, especially the extended oil fill tube
do you happen to have an extra bag for a lawnboy lawn mower? the model number is 10655
+Bad Drivers of Texas Nope, looks like that is a regular toro bag though, I'm not 100% sure but you might be able to get the bag off a toro recycler maybe find a busted one in your area that still has a decent bag with it and try it out on yours before you buy it.
+hanksranger alright thanks. I got the lawn mower for free and it's in working condition just need the bag.
no prob man
+Bad Drivers of Texas holy moly there is a Texas dash cam guy!? Insta-sub. I'm from DFW and watch HaloMasterMind117 all the time.
Yes, I upload a video every Friday.
The deck on that MTD made thing is so trash. So thin it's cracking where the front wheels attach. AYP Craftsman's are sooo much beefier. But I get it. They probably wanted it lightweight since it's a pusher.
use NGK PLUGS FOR BRIGGS MOWERS
How can I get hold of you? I need one of them,
What? You seriously would want to pay for shipping for me to ship you a broken lawnmower? Dude this video was made years ago these are all long gone.
that mower around here would only be worth $75 at the very most. that would probably be high
That's the beauty of California because cost of living is so high everything else is very good rate of return for sellers on the used market.
+hanksranger literally also just sold it for 120 bucks
hanksranger I'm on the other end of the country in VA xD
awesome job man. making all that money :D
Bio Hazardra yup it works for most things here man lol
people are cheap...no way a lawn mower like this is worth only 75...you have to be patient until you get more for it....75 dollars for a machine that can last you 20 years...that is ridiculous...you just gotta be patient and wait out someone that will actually buy it for your asking price...be firm and patient...
(hanksranger): it keeps my inventory fresh and easy fix.: Its dental proven!
+TheReal8deal lol!
lol
im doing the same thing your doing but im a beginner
this isnt an mtd mower its made by husqvarna
No it’s not
Has lawn mower business. Has shitty lawn...lol. Seriously nice video, was thinking about doing this as a side hustle.
Lol it ain't a Lawn it's seasonal weeds
Folks getting into the small engine repair business will be surprised at how many people decide to junk mowers because they simply have old gas in them, a lot of times all you have to do is drain that nasty old gunk out & run some fresh through it.
Yup. I tell people that all the time. It’s about 90 something percent that a nonstarting mower is carb/fuel related
I used to find them and fixed and sell but I realized it’s not a lot of value in them it’s just waist of time, and if you have to buy parts you can be negative in profit.
I've been doing it for over 10 years and am nowhere near in the negative, especially not with the UA-cam ad revenue on it all now. I rarely have to buy parts as I have so many on hand to pull from other machines. When I do have to buy new I have a sponsorship that sends me what I need.
@@hanksgarage_ Thank you for your reply, looks like you in different situations I wish you good luck, I like your videos I watch them over and over again.Thank man
Glad you like them
For being a lawnmower repair guy you sure have a crappy lawn.
It’s not a lawn it’s seasonal weeds child.
To busy fixing your fucking machine to cut his grass