In the Blue Ridge Mountains, Eustace
is taking stock of his assets in a bid to raise a lot of cash
fast.
Hey, man.
- Doing all right, Scott? - I'm good.
How about yourself?
Pretty good.
Scott Beam is an antique dealer specializing
in vintage farm equipment.
The two seater buggy dates back to 1890
and was once used for day to day horse drawn travel.
Let's get it right out here where you can see it better.
Course, the more I see it, it might change my mind on this.
I like it.
How much can you give for something like this
and make a little profit?
Lookin' maybe 18.
I don't know if I can let it go for 18, Scott.
How about $2,200?
Any way you can do that?
I need some money.
I don't know.
Might be get that seat fixed and a little cleaned up.
What if just split the difference?
I think $2000 will cover it.
I believe you picked the right day.
All right. $2,000. - Good deal.
Yeah, I got the tongue right in here.
The tongue is a wood and metal frame
that connects the steering axle of the car
to the horse's harness.
Grab the end of it.
Put this together here.
Now let's see if we can move it up in the road
where you can load it more easily.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Too tight.
Oh man.
Oh [bleep].
We broke the tongue.
That was kind of embarrassing, honestly,
to have a tongue break right there
while I'm making the sale.
Doesn't look too good on me.
I hope that he still wants it.
I'll try to-- I'll make it right, somehow.
We'll get another tongue so we can
have a solid tongue for you.
A man doesn't need anything like that, that's for sure.
- Nope. - Sorry about that.
It'd be a bad day.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'll try to get it done by the end of the day.
Can you come back this evening?
I can come back by here.
From my way back down the road.
- OK. - All right.
Thank you. - Yeah.
Well, I'm sorry about that. - That's all right.
But I'll take care of it.
I've got $2000 on the line here on this sale,
and I've got to get this tongue in a satisfactory condition.
And that means I've got to get to work
here and fix this and make it so that he's happy with it.
Because if he's not happy with it,
I'm not going to go away with $2,000 today,
and I need that for the land.
The broken shaft is an essential component
that connects the axle to the horse's harness.
To replace it, Eustace first separates the broken pieces
from the tongue's metal framework.
Well, I'm getting it loose one bolt at a time.
I'm running into a bit of a problem.
There's a few of these bolts that
just don't want to come off.
So I need to take a cutting torch to take them off.
This will get it so hot, I can blast
the metal right out of there.
The red wrench always works.
To make the repair, he's scavenging
another wooden shaft of similar dimensions from his collection.
It looks like it will fit in there.
I guarantee you that I'm going to fix it.
Yeah, pays to have a few scrap pieces around.
That's part of the deal that we agreed on,
and I'm going to make sure he has one.
Sweet.
I'm pretty happy with my fix.
I just really hope that he's happy with it.
I need to walk away with $2,000 out of this deal.
Hey man, did you get this fixed up?
I got it all fixed up.
I pulled the tongue out of another one,
and got one that fit just right back in there.
I spent a lot of time putting all this together and getting
a good tongue in there.
He's going to look over my work and he's going
to make sure it's satisfactory.
I need some money, I need to buy that lamp.
Might not be the original tongue, but it's sturdy.
Do the job.
Tongue looks good, Eustace.
Well, I'm glad you like it.
I wanted you to have something good.
Works for me. Good deal.
- Good deal. - Let's get it loaded up.
All right.
This puts me $2,000 closer to coming up with a down payment.
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Take care, bud.
Thank you.
It's really important to me to keep this land wild and keep it
natural and buy as much buffer around my farm
as I possibly can.
But right now, it's just a hope and a dream and a prayer.