Bought me a grapple/dump truck today. Photos added now

[Mowingman]

I have no idea why, but I've always wanted to have a grapple truck with a dump bed. I have no current work lined up, but I have several ideas for generating income with it. So, today I made a 774 mile roundtrip up to Arkansas to look at one. Bought it on the spot as it is a nice older truck at a fair price.
It is a 96 Chevy kodiak with an IMT grapple boom, and a LOOONG dump bed. Truck has a Cat 3116 diesel, airbrakes, tandem twin screw, Hendrickson rears, and a GVW of 56000 lbs. Grapple and dump all work great and grapple boom pins are tight. It has a bypass-type grapple on it.
I hope to go bring it home next weekend if the weather is good.
Tried to link to Craigslist photos, but seller has already removed the ad since I bought it.

 

[luckydad]

Link not working..

 

[TRISTATEFORESTRYEQUIPMENT]

post pics, i would love to see whatcha got

joe

www.tristateforestryequipment.com

 

[Mowingman]

Oops, seller already took the ad off of Craigslist. It was still there when I posted. Sorry, I will have to get photos when I go bring it home. Did not take any today, as I was too busy crawling on, under, and around the truck checking it out.

 

[Idahokid]

Can you get parts for that chevy?

 

[greg storms]

Can you get parts for that chevy?

13 mos ago, I got good parts service from Rick Stockbridge @ Industrial Power Truck & Equip't: 817-546-7593. He got me prints on parts breakdown of 2000 C8500 chevy (chassis Parts)....a good supplier!!! Good Luck!

 

[Mowingman]

Parts are not a problem, even though GM got out of the medium duty truck business. Cab and most all interior parts, are the same as Chevy 3/4 or 1 ton trucks. The engine parts are readily available, and all drivetrain and chassis parts are available from truck parts supply stores. The fiberglass hood could be a little hard to replace. However, the hood is the same one they used on thousands of Bluebird/GMC school buses throughout the mid 90's. They are pretty easy to find in junkyards.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Lets see some pics!!!!

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk

 

[pro94lt]

I seen it looks like a good one what's the gvwr on it?

 

[Mowingman]

I seen it looks like a good one what's the gvwr on it?

THe GVWR on the door frame says 56,000 lbs

 

[pro94lt]

Oh man that's a stud! You gonna be going through fort smith? Just a warning the dot is all around they got me on a back road a while back coming home in a bucket truck that I was told was under 26 gvwr I had no cdl at the time and the gvwr was 33k how long is the bed 24 the one I seen was LONG

 

[Mowingman]

Oh man that's a stud! You gonna be going through fort smith? Just a warning the dot is all around they got me on a back road a while back coming home in a bucket truck that I was told was under 26 gvwr I had no cdl at the time and the gvwr was 33k how long is the bed 24 the one I seen was LONG

Thanks for the heads up. I will be traveling along I40 through Van Buren, while bringing it home to Texas. I do have a class A CDL and current DOT medical card. I will be putting Texas temporary, "one trip" tags on it. It will not be DOT inspected until I get it home. I am going to pass 2 scale stations coming home with it, and do plan to stop at them if open. I hope the temporary tags will get me a pass on the inspection sticker. I guess I will find out soon.
I did not measure the bed length, but I'm guessing it is about 20' long.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Most states give a 7 day leaway to drive the truck home if purchased in another state.

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk

 

[Mowingman]

Thanks 2tree. That eases my mind a bunch about the trip home with it.

 

[Mowingman]

Went up to Arkansas and brought the truck home. Great luck with the DOT and scales. All the scales were closed, due to the bad weather, and numerous wrecks that were keeping all the state troopers busy.
Weather was terrible, and what should have been a 5.5 hour trip back, turned into an 8 hour "Ice Road Truckers" event. The old grapple truck ran great though, not one problem with it on the 350 mile trip home. I am impressed.
Might get photos tomorrow that I can post, if the ice storm here lets up.

 

[pro94lt]

Great man how fast did you run it? How much fuel it burn?

 

[Mowingman]

Great man how fast did you run it? How much fuel it burn?

When we were on clear pavement, about 1/3 of the trip, I had it wound out against the governor at 65MPH on level road. Probably 1/3 of the trip was done at about 50-55mph, and the final third was 35-45 mph. The truck has an 8LL transmission and the 3116 Cat engine. No idea about what the rear end ratio is.
A quick estimate I made, leads me to believe that I got about 8.25 MPG ave. for the whole trip. Much better than I expected.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Wheres the pics man?

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk

 

[Mowingman]

Here are a couple of photos, I hope.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Nice. What you pay if you dont mind sharing? Was it a old railroad truck?

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk