My nephew scored an awsome Cub Cadet for a $100
The only thing wrong was the fuel pump was draining fuel into the crankcase, so I bypassed the fuel pump for now and just letting it gravity feed, it runs like a top.
It makes me wonder how many billions of dollars are wasted every year because of things like what was wrong with the Cub Cadet, I am pretty sure whoever scrapped the tractor replaced it with another five or ten thousand dollar tractor because they did not want to fix a $50 problem, I can gaurerntee Cub Cadet doesn't make a new lawn tractor as good as the one that was scrapped.A good mower will last forever with just a little maintenance.
We have a basic yard machine that's 20 years old. All I've done is change the oil and air filter every year and spark plug once.
Pickup trucks should be this simple.