LR50 bucket

[Climbing mike]

Is there anyone using the asplundh lr50 booms on their trucks? Did you know they are suppose to be totally redone at 15 years regardless of hrs? Does anyone know how much that may cost? Would love to here from anyone about this.


Thanks Mike

 

[DDM]

From what I understood Its a Butt covering for asplundh due to people abusing and not properply maintaining there units. http://www.asplundh.com/bulletin.html

 

[NeTree]

That comes due to certain utilities requiring a lift and chassis be no more than a certain age, not necessarily a requirement- unless you're doing line clearance work.

 

[Menchhofer]

Last info I have seen for a complete rebuild, about 10k.

 

[Climbing mike]

Asplundh does not make booms any more their operation was taken over by altec, this is what I was told. I tried to order a part for my boom they told me I have to give my serial number, when i asked why they told me that if my boom was over 15 years old and has not had the 15 year overhaul then they will not sell any parts to the person that owns the boom. The company mandates that at 25 years the boom be dismanteled and cut into peices. The only part Im tring to get is the cover to the controlls. Does any one have a LR50 that has been overhauled?

Thanks Mike

 

[NeTree]

You're better off just making one out of 1/4" plywood. If you're decent at it, you can do the corners with glass and you'll hardly notice a difference.

Yes, Asplundh sold their lifts and chipper mfg to Altec.

Seems hard to swallow they wouldn't sell parts, and even harder that they'd mandate it be cut up. C'mon, get real. My Skyworker is 33 years old, and still going. Still get parts, and nobody has told me to cut it into itsy-bitsy pieces.

 

[Climbing mike]

The policy to not sell parts unless they have been overhauled is about 2 months old. I should have ordered when it broke .

 

[NeTree]

Wow... that's pretty scrwed. Sounds like anti-trust to me, Mike.

That's like me selling you a chainsaw and calling you up next year saying you have to junk it unless you buy my $400 rebuild kit.

As far as "overhaul" goes, it depends on how deep they expect you to get into it. Did they tell you what they define an overhaul as?

 

[Bob Gregory]

Asplundh does not make booms any more their operation was taken over by altec, this is what I was told. I tried to order a part for my boom they told me I have to give my serial number, when i asked why they told me that if my boom was over 15 years old and has not had the 15 year overhaul then they will not sell any parts to the person that owns the boom. The company mandates that at 25 years the boom be dismanteled and cut into peices. The only part Im tring to get is the cover to the controlls. Does any one have a LR50 that has been overhauled?

Thanks Mike

I contacted altec as well concerning an lr50 lift ( 1986 Ford f700 with an lr50 lift ) and was trying to get a maintenance , parts , and installation manual and they would not give me one as they said they got rid of all the information on the old lr50 lifts. I said you mean to tell me that you got rid of all the hydraulic schematics for a piece of equipment that you purchased the rights to and bought and all the patent information and designs and just threw them away? I said whoever did that should be fired , right along with all the people that let him get rid of that information. I told them that they could put all the information from the library of Congress on a chip no bigger than a quarter inch square so there was no reason to get rid of that information and just throw it away. ( I actually knew why they got rid of all that information, and it was because of the lawsuits that they went through when a LR50 boom cable broke killing a man and others getting injured from malfunctions but I didn't let them know that.) But it just went to prove that Altec is a no good company if they will lie to somebody about why they will not give them information concerning a lift from a company they purchased years ago.