ISO 75 Foot Bucket Truck

@tc262 you could be right. I looked at the photos again and the rest of the truck is smooth. Looks well cared for. How's that project you got going? You picked up a box truck to turn chipper if I remember right.
 
96coal449 said:
@tc262 you could be right. I looked at the photos again and the rest of the truck is smooth. Looks well cared for. How's that project you got going? You picked up a box truck to turn chipper if I remember right.
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Most of everything I own is sitting in that truck now. We sold our house but still haven't found a new piece of property. Bought the truck to use as storage so I only have to handle our stuff one time in then one time out at the next place. Planned on turning it into a chip truck afterwards but I recently bought a much bigger chipper than I thought I'd be running. So I'm thinking I should build on a heavier truck. A 20" chipper with a chip box big enough to keep it running is just a lil much for it. It's to bad cuz it's a sweet truck. M2 Freightliner with air brakes, air ride, automatic, and 26k gross so no cdl needed!
 
If your worry is buying that elevator from tri state because it is most likely is a auction truck with new paint that is marked up 30gs. Why don't you just cut out the middle man. And go straight to the source which would be a jj Kane auction and such. Elevators go from 45 to 75gs depending on rear mount diesel etc. you grab a cheap one. Leaves you with between 15 to 45g to mint out the truck and do any repairs which more then enough.
 
KYAPLE said:
6 speed with all those hills..... truck is 10yrs old already...that being said our newest truck (2013 550) gives us the most problems. It depends what the price of the brand-new ones are. I thought they were like 120 turns out I was wrong. I will never buy equipment from either of those places based solely on what I've read on this website. @markprz has a pretty miserable bucket truck story...and I'm sure he loves when I re-open that "wound" (sorry buddy hehe) good luck Royce
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Anything I can do to help... I'll do..... I don't want anyone to repeat the experience I had..... and now I know how to avoid the pitfalls.... I'll be glad to share what I've learned.... <3
 
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al.of ct is a great boom heres my truck
 
In the event of a emergency where the climber can not lower himself in the bucket. How would personnel on the ground lower him? How would they get to the controls? Or am I missing something? Looks like the lower controls go with the elevator?
 
Royce I am relatively new here as an active member so take my advise with caution. I understand your situation with the year end coming and have faced this before in my business. One option I have used before to get around this problem is to prepay for supplies and materials you will use next year. This will increase your expenses for this year to lower your taxable income for this year and since you have pre paid money stacks up in the bank account in the first few months much faster then normal. For instance do you have a trusted commercial fuel jobber you buy fuel from? Prepaying for half of next years fuel may get you around the issue. Don't forget to negotiate for a better price or discount by prepaying. With some vendors this will put at the top of there "what ever it takes to keep you happy list". With fuel some times you can use this to lock in a price and insulate yourself from large swings in the price which is quite useful when working on fixed contracts. Just thought I would mention this option to moxe expenses from next year into the current tax year. Best of luck
 
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