bought a turbocharged aftercooled shed with sweet five spoke twenny tooz

[Stingray]

Pretty much, I drove lived in an f650 for a few years that was a former expediter rig, low miles but 10,000 hours. No apu.

So is something like that gonna be beat? I like the layout, but would go for more miles with less abuse.

My work rig sounds similar, Freightliner M2 Chassis stops and starts all day, not high miles but higher than normal hrs.

 

[Thatg9659]

So is something like that gonna be beat? I like the layout, but would go for more miles with less abuse.

My work rig sounds similar, Freightliner M2 Chassis stops and starts all day, not high miles but higher than normal hrs.

The one I drove was, but it was very stripped down, think he paid $10- 15k for it. it seemed to have been idled nonstop. The one pictured should have an apu and a much higher buy in so maybe better treated? They’re all independent contractors so not fedex owned.

 

[Lurker]

it will probably never see the road again
no insurance and it's rated at like 29k lb where in mn you need a DOT number and physical to have plates over 10k
so overloading the fuck outta my f350 makes a lot more sense than an mdt

Perfect! I have a bus/shed in my back yard currently, hoping it becomes a motor home at some point. I am going to use it to move first this next spring, then figure out what to do with it. Mine has a ISM though

 

[[486]]

Perfect! I have a bus/shed in my back yard currently, hoping it becomes a motor home at some point. I am going to use it to move first this next spring, then figure out what to do with it. Mine has a ISM though

I... you... um
your previous post makes less sense than it did before
rear pusher and an electronic motor atop that
You realize that the other engine option for this bus was an n/a IDI governed to 2800, right? Never mind the 9L or the various gas motors that the older int'l chassis got

I want a dt360 to put in an f350...

it's... heavier than a b series in the right places, so it should hold up to decent power once you get a p-pump on it
they're just very excessive for anything around here
we have like two hills in the state, so for any real roadgoing purposes you're better off with smaller and lighter engines so when the DOT stops you your white privilege tax (overweight tickets) are slightly less in size

 

[[486]]

Pretty much, I drove lived in an f650 for a few years that was a former expediter rig, low miles but 10,000 hours. No apu.

hundred thousand and ten thousand on this one
probably spent a few winter months idling (oh, found the transfer papers from '03, the bar that owned it bought it from the city of remer mn lol)
it's got a fuel heater on the back of the cylinder head, just like a trans cooler but hooked to the fuel lines

 

[montrose818]

it's... heavier than a b series in the right places, so it should hold up to decent power once you get a p-pump on it
they're just very excessive for anything around here
we have like two hills in the state, so for any real roadgoing purposes you're better off with smaller and lighter engines so when the DOT stops you your white privilege tax (overweight tickets) are slightly less in size

whts a B series?

smaller than a 360? thats pickup sized already though

 

[Thatg9659]

whts a B series?

smaller than a 360? thats pickup sized already though

5.9 Cummins ie: ISB

 

[Yotota]

Hahahahaha this thread is awesome. I've been casually shopping cheap medium duty trucks, but now I'm going to add busses to the list. Flatbed the rear and it could be a halfway decent crawler hauler.

 

[Dan]

Are these chassis tempered or hardened somehow? Maybe it's freightliner I'm thinking of?

I always wanted to use the C channel hardened frames to build a big ass press. You might even have enough left over if you do a body swap. Just a thought, nice score.

 

[[486]]

smaller than a 360? thats pickup sized already though

yup
kinda sucks that there isn't anything in the 3.0 liter range in the US
one of those rover 300 motors would be perfect, or an om606 if they weren't cast out of silver

 

[[486]]

Are these chassis tempered or hardened somehow? Maybe it's freightliner I'm thinking of?

I always wanted to use the C channel hardened frames to build a big ass press. You might even have enough left over if you do a body swap. Just a thought, nice score.

presses are all tension loading
get you some 5/8x4" a36 flatbar and 1.5" round stock for pins
bingo bango a set of press uprights I'd trust with a hundred tons of terrifying in it

using c-channel is a wonderful way to make your table rock on the pins

 

[billybob_81067]

I drug this pile-o-shit home yesterday... Made it 4 hours home through Denver traffic with no plates and didn't get pulled over.

 

[[486]]

I drug this pile-o-shit home yesterday... Made it 4 hours home through Denver traffic with no plates and didn't get pulled over.

fuck yeah bud
if I had one of them I'd prolly just slap a SMV triangle on it rather than deal with any sort of licensing or insurance bullshit
there's a gravel yard a few miles down the road, so being limited to 30 ain't a huge deal

 

[[486]]

wait what, that doesn't even have daytons on it
wierd

how much did you get it for?

 

[billybob_81067]

wait what, that doesn't even have daytons on it
wierd

how much did you get it for?

Yeah I am glad it doesn't have daytons on it. I gave 7,000 for it, and that's probably too damn much, but that was cheaper than any other tandem dump truck around that ran by at least half... Apparently has a big cam Cummins (Haven't verified if it is a big or small cam Cummins yet) and its got a 13 speed. Had tons of power on the trip home so I think it'll do fine for what I'm wanting to do with it. Twin screw rearends which will be way better than a tag axle in my application. I mainly bought it to haul and stockpile manure from local feedyards to my farm. Even came with a couple crescent wrenches, a pipe wrench, few screwdrivers, a ratchet strap, two Alcoa aluminum steer wheels/tires and a bit of scrap that was left stuck in the bed!

 

[[486]]

I seem to remember ones only fit for in-pit 'rock truck' service going for around that up here

dump trucks aren't cheap until they're rusted out and broken in half, and even then they seem to go well above scrap

 

[JR4X]

Stan Haynes of Branik machine just sold a bad ass expediter for $10,000. I went to go do a screen shot so if one of y’all wanted it you could reach out but its been deleted.

edit, found a pic but the ad is gone. Must of sold.

 

[[486]]

So, placed some concrete blocks 2'x4' ro so to park the front pizza cutters on, because this is going to sit in an area I just made about 20 yards of topsoil "disappear" into.

Get the motherfucker up to about 20 or so in the yard aimed at these plinths of virtue and justice
Mind you I've only got front brakes and I don't want to skid the concrete bits outta where they're sitting
so I end up becalmed just before the final resting place, shoulda given her a little more beans, hadn't spun the tires yet, so it still could go well.

Skidsteer won't pick up a single corner of this fat whore, and it just ain't got the traction to push it up onto those plinths, so I give it some thought. Could call the neighbor over to push with the skid steer while I drive the busmobile... Nah wouldn't want to be a bother.

So I chain the bucket to the rear frame crossmember so the bus won't take off on its own, get bus in low gear and apply the hand throttle to about 1500 rpm. Gave a brief thought to tying a rope to the shutoff cable and running it through the back door but decided against it.
Ran around, hopped in the boob**** and started pushing, getting nowhere so shut it down and jack up the front to put it on higher blocks so there's less of a hill to climb.
Set it all up running and push/pulling again and it is still not moving.
I start rocking it and finally get moving a little! Whoo great, now time to stop, get some tension on the chain and that's about where the bus takes off good enough to drag the skidsteer along with it. Yup, drove right off the front of the foot high blocks.
Motherfucker.
Well alright, I'll just do the same thing but in reverse.
Proceed to spin the tires and dig to china.
Jack up the rear (more like jack a bunch of rocks and plate steel down into the manure/topsoil) and toss some old trailer ramps under the rear.
Jack up the front (same deal where the ground moves 3* what the bus does) and try and angle the jack to it pushes it back and onto the blocks, sorta kinda successful looking until I start pulling it back with the bobcat, then it pushes the blocks outta the way and drops into the poop again.
Fuck.

So to put it succinctly, life is hard when you're one person.
I'll work at it more tomorrow.

 

[bdkw1]

You need to film this shit in black and white so we can speed it up and put Benny Hill music on it.

 

[[486]]

I took pictures but fuck stripping them of exif, resizing and uploading, I'll do it some other time maybe

 

[M92PV4U]

Damn, good luck tomorrow.

 

[87manche]

The farmers here cut the walls about halfway down and make giant pickup beds out of them for hauling sweet potatoes and melons.

they do the same thing in the muck fields here.

flatbedded schoolbus with about 20 migrant workers on the back rolling down the highway is always something to see.

 

[Blacksheep10]

they do the same thing in the muck fields here.

flatbedded schoolbus with about 20 migrant workers on the back rolling down the highway is always something to see.

Make haywagons from them here. Haven't seen on in a while, and very few migrants will throw hay around here, too much KC construction available. Farm kids are in short supply now, so square baling has left or become automated.

I have 3 of the 40x9.5 high cubes. Really pissed I didn't grab a few more when I could. They are fawking ridiculous now. Putting a 40x40 roof over 2 of them, would like to do 2 of them.

 

[billybob_81067]

Make haywagons from them here. Haven't seen on in a while, and very few migrants will throw hay around here, too much KC construction available. Farm kids are in short supply now, so square baling has left or become automated.

We used to put up a ton of small square bales (50,000 a year for a few years) Fuck that noise. I can get just as much for it per ton with 3x3 bales and its probably only half the work.

 

[[486]]

We used to put up a ton of small square bales (50,000 a year for a few years) Fuck that noise. I can get just as much for it per ton with 3x3 bales and its probably only half the work.

no stupid horse people near you that complain when your small bales are "too heavy"?

 

[Filthy McChevy]

A friend of mine had a few buses full of car parts, it was a nice setup. I used a 6x6 as a shed for a few years before I sold it. I had to empty it once a year for the 4th of July Parade and another parade here at the end of July. Kept the trainhorns and siren and ahoogah horn though.

 

[[486]]

so got the front end jacked up and shifted over onto the pads, one of them busted into pieces while I was shifting it over but w/e
tomorrow I'll jack up the rears and set them down on some old 10r20 tires that got steel sidewalls so I can't cut the sidewalls out to get them to take on dirt for my other ground-stabilization project

got a late start, had to stop in at work... previous work? whatever
had to get more ATF for the car and tires for the back yard and fix the A/C in the upstairs office. Guess I do kinda still work there, just a ton of benefits with none of that 8hrs a day 5 days a week nonsense

 

[[486]]

A friend of mine had a few buses full of car parts, it was a nice setup. I used a 6x6 as a shed for a few years before I sold it. I had to empty it once a year for the 4th of July Parade and another parade here at the end of July. Kept the trainhorns and siren and ahoogah horn though.

I'm certainly going to keep looking for more of them
I remember a couple years back one was on the free section, needed brake work but that's the same as this one. Just saw the rear circuit was dry in the master, so cut the line to the rear and vise gripped it shut.

 

[Filthy McChevy]

I could have had one with a 429 for 500 bucks a few years back, I decided not to mess with it, thanks for making me think about it again.

 

[[486]]

I could have had one with a 429 for 500 bucks a few years back, I decided not to mess with it, thanks for making me think about it again.

we all have similar regrets
mine is a 42"x40' monarch NN for $3500 and a K&T #5 vertical for free