Your oldest piece...ever

[Tr33Climb3r]

No it is fine you embedded it. I didn't because it was two large. Didn't have time to resize it in the morning to not distort the page.

I can't wait to get started on it.

 

[treecareinc]

The small boom truck on the left is the oldest piece I've ever owned. The boom is a 1956 Pitman. The truck is not so old (1986 Ford F700), but the boom is. I bought the truck in 2001. I bought it from another tree service. The owner took a job with a municipality. His dad had originally acquired the truck. In the 70's. They were on their 2nd chassis. The father told me the railroad gave him the truck... which made me feel stupid... cause I was paying for it!

We painted it and got it in good condition. I owned it until 2009. We had gotten additional equipment by that point and it was not getting used much. I sold it for more than I paid for it (made me feel a little better about the whole "free thing").

I saw the truck a couple weeks ago. It is still operational and working...

 

[treevet]

Nice, bet you miss that truck sometimes when you got a tight spot.

They just made stuff real tough in the 50's with real thick non recycled steel.

Those oldies seldom let you down.

 

[treevet]

Prob reduced too much but 1936 Bean sprayer, 4 cyl Hercules engine, 35 gal. per. min. had it for about 15 years and would spray 90 ft. plus. gypsy moth etc.

 

[rfwoodvt]

Wish I still had a pic of it but my old 1964 M&M Chuck & Duck. What a work horse!!! Had her screaming at full bore put in a 6 inch chunk of maple when I heard this loud, and I mean LOUD BANG! Whole chipper came about 2 feet off the ground with the drum and engine stopped dead.

Turned out to be a 1 inch solid steel rod embedded in the maple. Bent the anvils down and out adn blew out the one knife. No harm to the engine or rest of the unit.

Ended up getting the blue wrench out, heated up the anvil support (large channel iron) till it went cherry red, then jacked it back into place. Had to do it several times but we got her back and functional!

 

[just_a_tree_guy]

sweet truck bro, bad a*S ! !

 

[treevet]

thanks from whoever's truck you are complimenting

 

[just_a_tree_guy]

treevet i was commenting on the old black truck you posted .( i think you did ) that is F"in sweet ! i love the old stuff . i just love old stuff i also collect antiques . it is really great to share what we do here on treebuzz . i always look forward coming home from a hard days work and checking out treebuzz .

 

[classictruckman]

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The small boom truck on the left is the oldest piece I've ever owned. The boom is a 1956 Pitman. The truck is not so old (1986 Ford F700), but the boom is. I bought the truck in 2001. I bought it from another tree service. The owner took a job with a municipality. His dad had originally acquired the truck. In the 70's. They were on their 2nd chassis. The father told me the railroad gave him the truck... which made me feel stupid... cause I was paying for it!

We painted it and got it in good condition. I owned it until 2009. We had gotten additional equipment by that point and it was not getting used much. I sold it for more than I paid for it (made me feel a little better about the whole "free thing").

I saw the truck a couple weeks ago. It is still operational and working...

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Wow, what were the specs on that thing?

 

[treecareinc]

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Wow, what were the specs on that thing?

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I think is was rated for 6 tons. The winch was strong, too strong for the set-up. It used to have another boom section, but it was bent and removed before I bought it. It was cable driven and that made it sloppy. The boom would sway about 1' horizontally all the time.

That truck was revolutionary to our company. Before that it was ball cart and hand load. We were able to pick logs and even pulled some trees off houses with it.

 

[treevet]

My first crane was a little like that in that it had no extension stock and was prob a 6 tonner. It was on a Chev C65 around a 71 I bought used in around 75. It had a dump bed behind the crane 11' long I believe and was formerly a railroad truck.

We were the schizzle with it we thought. Local Bartlett (Flemington NJ) bought one after we had ours. We yanked honkers up sides of mountains etc. Wish I still had it. Will put up a pict sometime. Scanner is messing with me again.