Cheap Bucket truck

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Jonseredbred

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• Apr 11, 2009

• #1

If anyone is looking to get a bucket truck, I really think this truck is a steal.

$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

 

SkwerI

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• Apr 11, 2009

• #2

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

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• Apr 11, 2009

• #3

Yah I don't think that trucks a steal of a deal either.

 

J

Jonseredbred

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• Apr 11, 2009

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• #4

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.

 

SkwerI

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• Apr 11, 2009

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I'm well aware of that. My material handler doubles the value of my truck.

 

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Jonseredbred

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• Apr 11, 2009

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• #6

They are not too popular around here. Too heavy for our soil conditions up here, never get them in anywhere.

 

W

Wagnaw

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• Apr 11, 2009

• #7

This is my kind of truck.

http://equipment.treetrader.com/index.php?a=2&b=2104

 

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• Apr 11, 2009

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Yeah, I saw that one. It looks sweet.

 

Thor's Hammer

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• Apr 11, 2009

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I saw it too quite fancy importing that baby...

 

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Wagnaw

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• Apr 11, 2009

• #10

I wonder why it's so cheap.

 

SkwerI

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• Apr 11, 2009

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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.

 

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Wagnaw

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• Apr 11, 2009

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Skwerl said:

And summer is coming and it's miserable in a truck without AC.

Click to expand...

Especially if you live in Florida!

 

stehansen

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• Apr 11, 2009

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It's a gas engine also.

 

sotc

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• Apr 12, 2009

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Thats a sweet truck but no tool storage

 

squisher

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• Apr 12, 2009

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I'd store the mini right on that deck.

 

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• Apr 12, 2009

• #16

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.

 

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NeTree

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• Apr 12, 2009

• #17

The gas powered ones weren't?

 

thattreeguy

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• Apr 13, 2009

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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