So what do you do when someone offers you two free 6k forklifts? Go rent two trailers and drag those bitches home on a Saturday.
Went in on this deal with a buddy since we both wanted one of them.
Short version: Local distribution warehouse place retired these earlier this year. They tried to sell them but got a bunch of tire kicker dealers that didn't want to touch them (high-ish hours - 12k hour to be exact). Claimed he couldn't even find anyone to take them for scrap, which I don't really believe. We had a friend that did some work at the site and got us in touch with him.
We rented a lift deck and a tilt deck trailer and showed up saturday. He had them read and even had a 12k forklift and just lifted them right on ot the trailers. Too easy. Chained them down and dragged them 100 miles back to my place.
Both had been robbed of a couple minor parts for the remaining machine they kept. We scavenged a couple propane fittings from once and had the other running within an hour of getting home. So far, it's 100% functional and just needs a few cosmetic things.
Second one, we had been warned had a hole in the radiator from the fane throwing a blade in to it. Also was missing the propane junction block and pressure release. Ran to lows and grabbed a flare nipple and had it hooked up and with a jump it was also running enough to move around. Besides the radiator, it's also not responding to throttle. We suspect it's the pedal sensor/tps but ran out of time to troubleshoot it. Otherwise, everything else seems to function well. I am noticing from the pic that the tilt cylinder apparently needs to be repacked.
Already started ordering parts - new fan, radiator. Will probably do the water pump while we have it torn apart. They had both just been serviced before they were parked so shouldn't need to do fluids or anything else like that.
I already had their older/smaller brother. My FG25 (2.5 ton) that I bought when I moved about a year and half ago. It's a little clapped out, but still runs pretty well. Plan is to fix a couple minor things, give it a Ritchie Brothers tune up and sell it as soon as we get the 2nd new one 100%.
All three are dual fuel. I run the green one on gas only because it has a very small propane leak that will drain the tank down if you forger to close the valve when you park it. The two new ones supposedly have been 100% propane and never even had gas in their tanks.