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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.24] on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 23:53:28 :
What do you do? A young guy I know who does a lot of scrapping is trying to sell me an M211/M135. My M211 brush truck now has a smashed cab as well as a blown tranny, so I went to look at his. It's pretty rough looking. On the plus side the sheet metal is good, it has the spare tire carrier (which I don't have) and it has a front winch that, from the shininess of the cable, looks like it's been used recently despite the shifter fork being broken. He says it goes forward fine but reverse has not been right since he used it to pull somebody's mobile home out. Has a home-made hard-top cab that I wouldn't want want. Engine has been fairly civilianized with a 12V starter, civilian coil and plugs. Air cleaner is not connected to carburetor.
So, it has some parts I might want, but I'm not sure I want to try to tackle making one good hydramatic tranny out of two bad ones. If it was cheap enough, I'd add it to the bone-yard. The trouble is, he's getting $350/ton for scrap if cut into 3' pieces. A truck like that is probably 13,000 lbs which means it's worth $2200 as scrap. Probably less if he drove it to the scrap yard intact, but still a lot more than it's worth (to me at least) as a truck.
So what do we do these days when decent trucks are worth more as scrap than as trucks? I'd like to offer him $500 for it, but that's so far below the scrap value he shouldn't even consider it.
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