So I've been keeping my eye's open for a deal on a Big Boom truck for a while. Looked at several oil field boomers that were too far away, and some junkyard boomers that were way too big to haul. A few weeks ago a guy I knew gives me a call and asks if I'd go with him to look at a couple big trucks, a 2 ton flatbed he's interested in and a "Tow" truck he thought I'd like. We get there and it's not a tow truck but this old Junk yard boomer. After talking to the owner for 1/2 hour we made a deal on both. In the end it worked out that my buddies towing truck had some mechanical issues so I ended up working the deal in exchange for me towing his to his place and storage of one of his 1/2 Tons at my lot for 4 months.
The story goes the owner bought this truck from a junkyard that went away up in Leavenworth, KS called Cristie's some of you might know it. He said it looked just like this when he bought it with the exception that the single duals were on the inside at the time, he moved them out for more stability. He used it at his farm to set some posts for a pole barn and other projects and doesn't need it anymore. Originally he wasn't going to include the winch but I convinced him that it would be too hard to remove/use for the project he was talking about.
He was using it regularly on the farm til a guy that was hauling off some scrap for him stole the radiator earlier this spring.
I found it interesting that it has a later 235 with a Big coil in cap HEI, and the lines where the external oil filter would be have a looped piece of braided hose with AN fittings. Soon as I get a chance I'm going to stick a radiator in it and see how she runs. He said the whole time he had it he ran it off a battery setting in the passenger side with a boat tank there too. I find the Car tank hanging from chain on the boom pretty funny.
The front fenders and bumper were trimmed off so it would better fit down the rows of the junkyard. The cab is toast.
Junk Yard Boomer She doesn't look like much but I'm pretty happy, really just what I was looking for.
Mongo
