Buying a old bucket

[YoungTreeGuy]

Found 1986 Asphuld bucket for $3k. It has basically a new rear end, 40k miles, but it is run on propane and needs a new bucket insulator.

Any idea how much it will cost to get this on the road? Will I have to switch it back to gas so OSHA will leave me alone? I can keep up with a bucket climbing but there has been a few jobs I've had to say no to because they are to dead, their dead over a house... Worth it or not?

 

[KRP]

Ford? what engine?

 

[mckeetree]

Found 1986 Asphuld bucket for $3k. It has basically a new rear end, 40k miles, but it is run on propane and needs a new bucket insulator.

Any idea how much it will cost to get this on the road? Will I have to switch it back to gas so OSHA will leave me alone? I can keep up with a bucket climbing but there has been a few jobs I've had to say no to because they are to dead, their dead over a house... Worth it or not?

Be careful with buying old Asplundh aerial lifts. Some of those on trucks that old are remounts of the old models that were ordered cut up at 25 years of age. Some not all.

 

[YoungTreeGuy]

Ford? what engine?

GMC Flat bed with tool box... Not sure what engine is in it. He only uses it local. It's been on the road in the last 2 years. Other than a steering box seems alright. It's made $2k in 4 days already.

 

[coral springs]

old buckets

Parts supply for old buckets can be hell.
start looking for suppliers now.
If you find a supplier for asplundh parts
please tell Me. John, at [email protected]

 

[lxt]

leave that thing alone!!!! on all accounts.

1986 asplundh bucket.....the boom is a disaster waiting to happen & propane ran engine.............they`re terrible, slow & never heat up properly cuz propane is in the negatives as cold goes, plus good luck at filling that up!!

Pass on it!!


LXT...............

 

[TrillPhil]

#### let me know where it is for 3k...

When it breaks, part it out... Then sell the truck... Engines still gonna run... propane burns clean.

 

[ddhlakebound]

GMC Flat bed with tool box... Not sure what engine is in it. He only uses it local. It's been on the road in the last 2 years. Other than a steering box seems alright. It's made $2k in 4 days already.

Looks as if it's already bought and working....

I know one thing for sure. I feel a WHOLE LOT safer on the end of a hundred and fifty dollar rope than I would in a $3k bucket.

If ya wanna gamble, just go to vegas. At the very least, have that thing checked out VERY THOROUGHLY by a certified boom mechanic.

 

[Blakesmaster]

I know one thing for sure. I feel a WHOLE LOT safer on the end of a hundred and fifty dollar rope than I would in a $3k bucket.

I'll second that. What part of NY you in YoungTreeGuy?

 

[Scrat]

Yeh what part of NY are you in?, That goes for you too Blakesmaster.
Nice to see some other guys from NY !!!!

 

[TrillPhil]

Just realized post is over a year old. :/

And I feel alot safer on the end of a rope than I do a bucket truck, until the tree is dead, has some visible defect, etc.

 

[Scrat]

Observant Trillphil. Why did it sit so long?

 

[PinnaclePete]

I know one thing for sure. I feel a WHOLE LOT safer on the end of a hundred and fifty dollar rope than I would in a $3k bucket.

If ya wanna gamble, just go to vegas. At the very least, have that thing checked out VERY THOROUGHLY by a certified boom mechanic.

Dr. John Ball statistics = "majority of bucket failures occur on lifts 15+ yrs, to the second owner" TCIA Expo 2009 Baltimore

Let the buyer beware, buy a rope.

 

[tomtrees58]

Be careful with buying old Asplundh aerial lifts. Some of those on trucks that old are remounts of the old models that were ordered cut up at 25 years of age. Some not all.

you cant get parts for it don't get it

 

[jefflovstrom]

Wonder where the OP is now. His last post was a month after this one. Wonder if he 'bought it', the truck I mean'
Jeff

 

[ozarktreeman]

Been there done that, Let that truck die in piece.
Cause you won't once you buy it! Will be a money pit and a death trap.