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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | words uttered by my wife when she saw my new purchase...
[img]http://homes.midmaine.com/~ramsay/5500/5500-4.jpg[/img]
1968 5500...$400.00 It runs and dumps. Now I've just got to figure out how to get it home. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | of course, it goes well with my last purchase...
[img]http://homes.midmaine.com/~ramsay/dozer/dozer4.jpg[/img] | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 | Wow, great deal, I'd sure like to find that big of a dump truck for that kind of money. Now you'll have to get a loader or back hoe to load that dump truck with. LOL | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | He was asking $700, but he dickered himself down. The conversation went something like this... "I'm asking $700, but I'd take less..." "how much less?" "I'd take $400" "deal" I'm in the market for a back hoe now.  | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 39 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 39 | Nice find! Hope you get the same kind of deal on the backhoe...... | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,470 Bond Villain | | Bond Villain Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,470 | Yasmar -- where in Maine are you? John
~ John "We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are" 1948 International Farmall Super A1949 Chevrolet 3804In the Legacy Gallery | In the Gallery Forum1973 IH 1310 Dump2001 International/AmTran RE3000 "Skoolie"2014 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley) | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 | "but he dickered himself down" I've had that happen to me. Sure was fun | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | Originally posted by John Milliman: Yasmar -- where in Maine are you?
John I'm just north of Bangor. Rickdb...I hope I get that sort of deal too!, But it probably won't happen. Backhoes are like gold up here. I'm a patient man...I don't buy until I find "The Deal" | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | Originally posted by 53moneypit: "but he dickered himself down"
I've had that happen to me. Sure was fun I figure if I'd let him keep talkin', I would left with the truck and he would have owed me money  | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | Another shot...the bed's got some swiss-cheese issues, but there's some new plate steel welded inside. There's the usual cab corner rust issues, as well as the roof/windshield area. Oh well, it'll be working work in progress.
[img]http://homes.midmaine.com/~ramsay/5500/5500-3.jpg[/img] | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,276 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,276 | Yasmar I like it. but then again I am a little partial to dumps. If you plan on doing much spreading with it, you will want to find a way to move the gate control to inside the cab. It's hard to reech tose handals with the box in the air.
Grant | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 63 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 63 | I've always said the perfect tow vehicle for a tractor is... a dump truck.
Especially when it's only $400!
Guy | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 70 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 70 | Now you have all the stuff you need to take up a solid career mining for gold.
Heheh
"After you skin yer knuckles, Mr Shifter ain't yer friend any more." 1942 Chevy 3/4 tonIn the Stovebolt GalleryPhoto Site1946 Chevy 5 window coupe/ute (new stray) 2000 Nissan Patrol 4x4 4.5l turbo diesel
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 584 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 584 | Cool Deal!....drive it home! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 13 | Originally posted by Tomcoe:
Cool Deal!....drive it home! I wish I could...but the brake booster is on the passenger side floor. The PO said it had been "re-done"... As far as I can tell, that's the only drivability issue with it. With a little work, there's a nice truck in there, but this one is gonna be a worker, not a full restoration. I've got 70 acres that I'm starting to build on, so once I get her running (and stopping) she'll be hauling gravel for the pad for my big-a$$ garage project. | | |
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