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gotta pass up a deal!!!

junkhound | Posted in Tools for Home Building on March 13, 2009 03:48am

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180334398934

Ends in 2 hours, current bid under $5K!

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Gotta go to France Sunday, would bid on this thing if’n Iwas gonna be home next week to go get it, no time tomorrow either.

Ack well, some of the goodies get away once in awhile.  I’d probably convert it to a telehandler type piece of equipment, would never even try to license it in this state with gross weight fees what they are.

Heck, could build a small solar system in some states that pay 37 cent kW-hr for green generation, use the cat engine out of this thing for a co-gen heating system and pay for itself in 5 years? 

 

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  1. davidmeiland | Mar 13, 2009 04:08am | #1

    You want me to pick it up for you?

  2. ponytl | Mar 13, 2009 05:00am | #2

    man if it was closer...   i could use it..... or scrap it ... the tires are worth 1k...

    and thats just the start.... of course i could never scrap it.... 

    thats a long drive to memphis in that thing... ( i thought about it)  @ maybe 55mph   maybe?

    have a great trip...   I'm sure you could leave it til you got back....

    p

  3. collarandhames | Mar 13, 2009 05:04am | #3

    That is SO cool!  We could use a rig like that for timberframing.  or ?

    I want it.  ;-(

    d

     

     

    1. wallyo | Mar 13, 2009 07:55am | #4

      Dam the tool box in the back is worth a couple of grand, and it comes with a bathroom!Wallyo

      1. Piffin | Mar 13, 2009 02:41pm | #5

        That's not a bathroom, it's the refill reservoir for hydraulic fluid.;) 

         

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        1. junkhound | Mar 13, 2009 04:07pm | #6

          It went for $8600, but really think the dealer bought it back? 

          Really considered bidding up to 10K, but DW said

          "you aint bringin' that big piece of junk here to sit in the yard for 4 years tilll you get around to doing something with it, and whatt'am eye going to do with it if you die"  ... or something to that effect. 

          1. cliffy | Mar 14, 2009 03:41am | #7

            After I read your post I thought for sure we must be brothers in law!

            Have a good weekend

            Cliffy

            P.S.  Where is PNW ? (I'm Canuck)

            Edited 3/13/2009 8:42 pm ET by cliffy

          2. junkhound | Mar 14, 2009 04:45am | #8

            The dealer for the big bucket truck is in Seattle, I'm a little south in Renton.

            PS: bil <g> Ya, but those virtual sisters do put up with some, huh?  DW was THRILLED when scrap metal prices were over $200/ton, got rid of a few old cars in 07 and first 1/2 of 08.

            Edited 3/13/2009 9:47 pm ET by junkhound

          3. m2akita | Mar 14, 2009 05:14pm | #12

            Huh, didn't know you where married to my wife. Poor woman.Live by the sword, die by the sword....choose your sword wisely.

    2. DanH | Mar 14, 2009 04:47am | #9

      I was thinking it would be perfect for hanging Christmas lights.
      The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith

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        Jeff_Clarke | Mar 14, 2009 04:04pm | #11

        I was thinking cleaning gutters out ... but then there's the collapsing foundation wall ...

        Jeff

  4. bobbys | Mar 14, 2009 08:38am | #10

    With that you could have strung your cords from tree to tree instead of putting them underground>G<

    1. junkhound | Mar 14, 2009 05:32pm | #13

      instead of putting them underground>G<

      Ended up direct burying some old 12-2 w/14g ground wire instead of extention cords......didn't know ah still had a roll of that (1970 code change??, not sure of the date) till I went looking thru junk piles for more old cords.....

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