I am offered a "free" splitter.... It hasn't been operated in a decade and was parked because it wouldn't return the cylinder a lot of the time. Haven't seen it but they said it is "yellow, electric and like 5 ton." I exclusively hand split so a splitter would be nice but how much work should I put into figuring out this thing if it gets delivered? Any ideas what could be wrong?
I have spent hours and hours and hours on free stuff. But usually it's not something that was just a few hundred dollars new and not working now. It's usually something like a mower or fourwheeler that's worth $300 to several thousand dollars. I will get free mowers and spend a little bit and a few hours to get them running and sell them. I got a free ZT mower that was about 8 years or so old, but needed both head gaskets replaced and other smaller issues, but that was like a $4000 new mower and running might of been worth half that maybe less at the time so it was worth the hours of work and few hundred dollars in parts I purchased. Several years later that is still my primary mower. I got a free ATV last year and have spent hours on it, cleaning it up, brakes, various broken things. But it's probably $500-700 as it sits maybe more?
