10 Banned Tools Every Grandfather Kept in His Barn (I Still Own 4)

THE BARN FIND BIBLE: the maker marks, the stamps, the dating rules and the real sold prices, all in one place: https://barnfindbible.com A ban does not destroy a thing. It freezes it. They outlaw it, the factories stop, careful people haul theirs to the dump, and every year after that there are fewer of them and the fellows who want one have more money. That is the whole video. I am Otis Granger. I am 64 and I have spent 40 years picking barns, estate auctions and farm sales across the Midwest. I am a picker, not an appraiser, and I am not a lawyer or a chemist. Here is what makes this one different from every other list on this channel. Every item gets TWO answers, in this order. What it is honestly worth, common case first. Then whether you should lay a hand on it at all. Four of these are just objects, and four of those four are on my own shelf, which is why I am not going to preach at you. Six are hazards wearing the shape of an object, and for those six the warning sits inside the entry where you will actually hear it, not saved for the end. WHAT IS COVERED, counting down: 10. LAWN DARTS. Banned outright by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1988. The one second tell is the tip: a rigid steel point is the outlawed kind. Complete boxed set $100 to $175, sealed $200 to $300, loose darts $50 to $80. Legal to own, not legal to sell, and I explain why the comps are so thin. (One of my four.) 9. OLD STEEL TRAPS. Read the pan, not the springs. S. Newhouse of the Oneida Community against the V of the common Victor line. A plain rusty Victor is a $10 to $45 trap. The number 6 bear trap with a real sale under it at $3,491. Restricted for USE in 8 states, and New Jersey reaches possession itself. (Two of my four.) 8. IVORY ON OLD TOOLS. Folding rules, caliper rules, knife scales. Schreger lines under a glass, and how bone and French ivory celluloid give themselves away. $200 to $700 where a sale is legal. Legal to own and inherit, effectively impossible to sell, and I explain the antique exemption and the small component rule. (Three of my four.) 7. THE MACHINES FROM BEFORE GUARDS. Naked table saw blades, open jointer heads, farm buzz rigs on flat belts. These are RESTRICTED, not banned, and I correct my own title out loud. Vintage cast iron Unisaw $300 to $800. Own it, do not run it. (The fourth of my four, and it has never been plugged in.) 6. OLD CHEMISTRY SETS. Including the A.C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, which is the biggest honest number in the video: $16,500 at RR Auction in December 2024. The common Gilbert or Chemcraft set is $75 to $500. Handle the box, never open the vials. MID COUNT: THE FOUR STEPS, handed over once instead of six warnings you will not remember. Stop. Do not clean it, and why a shop vacuum turns one shelf into one barn. Get people and animals out and photograph the label. Then make one phone call to your county household hazardous waste program. 5. MERCURY. Thermometers, round wall thermostats, tilt switches, manometers and the barometer in the hall. Restricted rather than banned, sale prohibited in at least 13 states. Barometers run into the low hundreds, and a mid Victorian English one $300 to $450. The Postal Service will not carry any of it, which decides everything for a seller. 4. OLD FARM CHEMICAL. DDT, lead arsenate, Paris green, chlordane, seed dressings. The artwork is the money and the chemical is worthless: a clean empty tin is a $20 to $40 advertising piece. Which ones were truly cancelled and when, and why strychnine is restricted rather than banned. 3. CARBON TETRACHLORIDE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS. A genuine outright ban, 1970. Telling the brass pump Pyrene from the harmless soda acid cylinder, and the glass grenades in their wall brackets. Common brass under $100. An aqua Harden's grenade at $102.50, a cobalt blue at $300. Never discharge one, and what it turns into when it hits a fire. 2. RADIUM DIALS. Clocks, aircraft instruments, compasses. The tell runs backwards from what everyone expects: it does NOT glow, and a dead dial is not a safe dial. Legal to own. A common radium alarm clock is a $20 to $75 clock. This is a collectible, not a payday. 1. ASBESTOS, and it inverts the whole video. Worth nothing. There is no legal market and no honest one. Where it hides in a barn, why most of it was never actually banned, why you cannot identify it by eye and neither can I, and the shortest instruction in the video: leave it where it is. A NOTE ON THE LAW AND ON SAFETY: rules on traps, ivory and mercury vary by state. I am not a lawyer and I give no legal instructions here. I am a picker, not an abatement contractor, and for anything hazardous the answer is always the same: leave it where it is, do not disturb it, and call your county household hazardous waste program. Tell me below which of these is in your barn right now, and where you're watching from. I read every single one.