extra cash

[rocketkart]

any of you guys do anything to make extra cash on the side when you get bored. this is what i do. i pick up these push mowers up at the scrap yard for $10 to $15 bucks a pc and most of them just need a carb clean and thats it. thin i sale thim for $35 to $50 bucks. last week i made over $200 doing this. i'll get some pics up later.

 

[J_Walker]

I offer to paint houses/walls/fences to friends and their familys. 15-40$

I replace broken panes in windows. 20-30$

Cut tree branches away from roofs. 15-40$

Cut the little spiky things off palm trees. 5-15$

Give people rides..... 5-40$

It's not good constant money, but its alright when you can find something that someones willing to pay for that you can do.

I also use to clean the kitchen of my Ex girlfriends mom's house, for like 30 bucks a month. that's good gas money, when your a daily rider. 14 bucks fills me up at $3.50

 

[rocketkart]

Cut the little spiky things off palm trees. lol

 

[J_Walker]

Cut the little spiky things off palm trees. lol

I don't know what they are called, but people around here hate them... they like them naked...?

 

[Oxymoron]

I used to build PC's, do little electrical installs/upgrades, and fix bicycles... but everyone started expecting it for free, so I don't do any of it anymore. It was fine before I had kids, but my time is way more precious now.

Well, I still actually do electrical work for family and friends... for free. Whatever. It feels good to do it

 

[Doc Sprocket]

I do small engine repair and maintenance. Lawnmowers, snowblowers, tractors, rototillers, weedies, etc. Got a few ads out here and there. Folks bring me thier junk, I fix it. Last weekend I did some work on a lawnmower- $50 profit. Got a big snowblower waiting for me next. Sometimes, I also pick up bad equipment cheap, fix it, and flip it. Working on a generator right now. A few weeks ago, my neighbour paid me $200 to put a new carb on his Massey Ferguson (fullsize) tractor. I told him I didn't need that much, but he insisted. Okay, then!

 

[OzFab]

I have also flipped a few push mowers lately, some you win, some you lose...

I have a neighbour who can't mow his lawns so, I do it for him (although, I haven't done for a few months...)

 

[rocketkart]

thanks for sharing that with me oxymoron&doc&fabroman. im currently working on beginning to start my own business that started as a hobby/profit pass time for me. i have built so far 13 mini airboat that are 6ft long and use the 412 cc predator engine that use a arrowprop 3blade composite prop that run with me @ 37mph. thay run dry if you aren't afraid to hold it wide open and let it rip. lol thay are so much fun there like riding a gokart throw the swamp.

 

[firemanjim]

thanks for sharing that with me oxymoron&doc&fabroman. im currently working on beginning to start my own business that started as a hobby/profit pass time for me. i have built so far 13 mini airboat that are 6ft long and use the 412 cc predator engine that use a arrowprop 3blade composite prop that run with me @ 37mph. thay run dry if you aren't afraid to hold it wide open and let it rip. lol thay are so much fun there like riding a gokart throw the swamp.

Hmmmm,very interesting..... can we get some pics? Always wanted to build one of those and one of them flying 3 wheel go karts..... the kind that uses a prop for propulsion and a parachute for lift.....
For the last ten years, Ive been wrenching on karts ,atvs and motorcycles for extra cash. Buying karts stupid cheap , throwing a few bucks at it, then flipping for big profits. (AFTER i ride it a few days, of course....) I also do machine work off the clock for cash customers. (Boss approved) I do light mechanic work, brakes oil tune up on newer cars and a lot more with the older cars. But here lately, Ive just been turning down work due to a lack of time. Been taking a medical class, shopping for land /homesite.... getting ready for the new baby boy to come in January. Really could use the bread,but education and family gotta come first. After we move, I plan to open a weekend type shop fixin karts and whatnot. ....

 

[rocketkart]

yeah i need to get some picks up on here but my cam broke and my phone cam the button on it stick frome having it fall into the couch and all the crap my kids stuff in the couch between the cushions. lol example. yogurt pudding pizza ice cream peanut butter jelly sandwiches. we have gone throw so many couches oner the years with the kids and god! im not asking the wife to borrow her phone to take a pic. that things like her 4th child. lol

 

[J_Walker]

yeah i need to get some picks up on here but my cam broke and my phone cam the button on it stick frome having it fall into the couch and all the crap my kids stuff in the couch between the cushions. lol example. yogurt pudding pizza ice cream peanut butter jelly sandwiches. we have gone throw so many couches oner the years with the kids and god! im not asking the wife to borrow her phone to take a pic. that things like her 4th child. lol

I'll trade ya a camera for a gokart..

 

[rocketkart]

got a new kart here

also built these.

 

[J_Walker]

That orange one is perfect for our local swamps, how tall is it really?

 

[rocketkart]

about 4ft

 

[fowler]

I just fix a few lawn mowers and little 2hp air compressors
They are all interchangeable between brands so u can usually get 2 good ones out of 3 stuffed one
Then sell the air tank as an auxiliary tank on a 4x4

Then I do a bit of mechanical work on trucks and tractors
One day a weekend in a friend of a friends shop when they are behind
All cash in hand stuff

Then also do a bit of labouring for a sparky just running cables and digging trenches when I'm not in the shop
Again for cash