A 400 pound Estate Sale Adventure

[alexb1186]

Jamie, in response to stairs being a bitch, I went to a sale 2 weeks ago and there were about 5-6 people trying to get a freezer upstairs without a handtruck/dolly. Ooh that looked painful just watching.

Greg, I'm gonna be at the convention in September and I went to omaha.com to check out how they list yard or estate sales. Does the World-Herald printed paper have a separate classified section for estate sales or are they combined with the regular yard sales?

 

[tolivac]

Wow-Would think it would be worth it to hire someone that does heavy appliance moving-and has the equipment to do it-would save the machine-and your life!Vending machine techs are good at that-may be worth hiring them to do that.

 

[jetcone]

How georgous

A nice large 400 pound object filling space. Empty space is such a waste these days, its highly overrated, that's for sure!

Can't wait to see the Dinah Shore Chevy Show in living black and white again!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Greg. We have a very similar model that might be a year newer because it has two ovens. The buttons lighted up for each heat; see the blue button for the right rear unit showing that it is set to Warm heat under that West Bend aluminum pan and the green light showing that the deep well is on low heat. Unfortunately, this was from the time when range manufacturers were experimenting with hidden bake elements so most of the oven bottoms are shot to hell if they had even moderate use over the years.

 

[gansky1]

Alex, the Omaha Weird Herald has Estate Sales listed all over the place - depending upon what section the purchaser instructs the ad to placed. You can do a search of the "Marketplace" ads for "Estate Sale" but that doesn't guarantee all will come up. They have recently changed their website and it's organization and sorting functions are a bit lacking. Then, there's the sale companies that don't even call them estate sales which complicates the searching even more!

Tom, the Hotpoint at the sale did have two ovens, but I can't remember if the elements were hidden. Seems we've come full-circle in the hidden element feature, perhaps the engineers and feature-dreamers should visit a junkyard and have a peek inside some of these old appliances - there would be much to be learned!

 

[jetcone]

Robert is

that TV sitting in your old house???
The room doesn't make sense!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Greg, I told them about that bit of history, but they were just people following a poor script at a sales dinner/meeting when the new stuff was introduced years ago. I have learned that nobody can tell engineers nothing until the damn thing blows up in their faces. Just look at how many models of KitchenAid DWs filled then heated water then started circulation before they finally stopped that inefficient foolishness.

Sorry for thinking the stove was a single oven model; I thought the ad was an exact match. Sorry.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Have ya played a record

Yet?

 

[veg-o-matic]

I think Vint Aqua Blue's Greatest Hits would sound fabboo on that changer!

veg

 

[alexb1186]

ah jeez

Thanks for the headsup Greg, now "game-planning" is gonna be harder than I thought come September