OK listen Im done with the pissing match here! Tell me where quality trucks are sold. I will not buy an asplundh truck they are junk and the cheap way out I my eyes and I dont want a gas job and a pony motor. So this is my thread and I want nothing else about them. I wont buy one and I wont consider it.
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I disagree, all used trucks will have issues, I have had 4, 2 BIG O's, both ROW trucks have been fine, booms are certified and run great, there are many different outfits that "re-hab" these trucks, some do it alot better than others. Example: Schmitdys in Clinton Ill, they suck, knock off the rust, spray them white.
I-80 Equipment in Colona, Ill, completely rebuilds them, they leave almost new, very solid trucks, and they will paint white or your choice, but, more mula for sure. The trucks are not junk, if they were, the largest tree company on this earth would not use them. You get what u pay for, period!
I have had issues with mine, no different than a used car, its going to happen. Just had the upper half of my engine redone, now stronger than ever, even has a little rump with the RV cam! I bought mine at schmidtys, knowing who/what I was dealing with helped alot, I went with ammo, got the truck I wanted, the one untouched by them! paid 19,000,if they painted it, they would have marked it 29 thou, have put several thousand into it, because I wanted to, painted it my self and have upgraded many systems, all for way less than buying one in the same condition. The hydraulic system in these is very simple, ever looked at the system on a utility bucket! I have one of those 2, there is 10 times the amount of lines in one of those, the utility's have more boxes, out riggers, little gadgets here and there, but are a complete bear to fix, mine has been sitting for a few years, waiting for me to have the time to try an isolate a bad o ring, there is several hundred different locations that it could be in,you have to pressure check every valve and I dont have that time, so it sits. My forestry truck, has a simple system, EASY TO FIX!
I agree on the gas, wish I had a Diesel, trading my work of art in the spring for a 75' elevator like 57 has, it will be diesel, and I will paint it green and do all the other stuff I did to this one. The pony motor is for saving fuel, u can still run it off the engine if you like, but the fuel savings, as compared to a truck that dont have one is crazy, plus the are quiet.. Some day, I will have enough Mula to have one built to my specs, at about $150,000, its gonna have to wait!
Buy what u want, google will tell you where, but the forestry trucks, they are not junk.
