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Jonseredbred
04-11-2009, 05:42 PM
If anyone is looking to get a bucket truck, I really think this truck is a steal.

http://equipment.treetrader.com/user_images/8889288.jpg

$18,000 is easy money for this truck. I am thinking about buying it, I think it would be an easy flip for the $$

http://equipment.treetrader.com/index.php?a=2&b=2694
Skwerl
04-11-2009, 05:50 PM
That's a 91. My blue one was an 89 and sold for $16K a year ago. Same working height plus material handler plus gobs of tool storage boxes. IMO there are lots of deals to be had in this economy if you have the money.

Here's a bunch of good deals on bucket trucks. I see they have that 1990 Ford with the old style cab and AM650 down to $10,500 now. They have been trying to sell that one for over a year.
http://www.sagontrucks.com/products.php?category=1
squisher
04-11-2009, 05:53 PM
Yah I don't think that trucks a steal of a deal either.:P
Jonseredbred
04-11-2009, 05:56 PM
No offense Brian, but there is a world of difference between that ALC truck and a utility truck when it comes to residential tree work.
Skwerl
04-11-2009, 06:00 PM
I'm well aware of that. My material handler doubles the value of my truck. ;)
Jonseredbred
04-11-2009, 06:04 PM
They are not too popular around here. Too heavy for our soil conditions up here, never get them in anywhere.
Wagnaw
04-11-2009, 07:52 PM
This is my kind of truck.

http://equipment.treetrader.com/index.php?a=2&b=2104
rumination
04-11-2009, 07:54 PM
Yeah, I saw that one. It looks sweet.
Thor's Hammer
04-11-2009, 08:09 PM
I saw it too :D quite fancy importing that baby...
Wagnaw
04-11-2009, 08:11 PM
I wonder why it's so cheap. :/:
Skwerl
04-11-2009, 08:13 PM
He's probably depreciated it down to nothing so it's no longer a tax writeoff, and he's probably replaced it with a newer, nicer truck. And summer is coming and it's miserable in a truck without AC.
Wagnaw
04-11-2009, 08:22 PM
And summer is coming and it's miserable in a truck without AC.

Especially if you live in Florida! :P
stehansen
04-11-2009, 11:21 PM
It's a gas engine also.
sotc
04-12-2009, 01:14 AM
Thats a sweet truck but no tool storage
squisher
04-12-2009, 01:15 AM
I'd store the mini right on that deck.:/:
treebogan
04-12-2009, 03:47 AM
I used to drive one of those with a Detroit Diesel engine in it.It had been repowered from Gas,great truck but dead slow.
NeTree
04-12-2009, 09:34 AM
The gas powered ones weren't? :lol:
thattreeguy
04-13-2009, 01:03 PM
i had to get a gas man cab to a site the other day, jesus was it scary a 4x4 chip rig woulda kept my shorts dry for sure
3rd and 2nd gears wound out up a logging road (mud and rock)
chipper caught air in 1 spot,
had to drive like an a hole or i wouldnt have made it up hill, without a cat pulling me
was even more fun getting out,
i want 4 wd everything up here