Picking up an FLU419 tomorrow. Checked it out today. It was this one from GovPlanet, local guy is reselling it.
http://www.govplanet.com/for-sale/E...=FLU419,pstart=60,sm=1,sort=ad+asc&pnLink=yes
He hasn't done much other than clean it up some, but I felt more comfortable buying one I could test drive ahead of time. Plus I don't have to pay shipping on it. Comes with all sorts of neat hydraulic tools (chainsaw, breakers, drill bits, etc.) that unfortunately I won't be using or need.
I'm going to be stripping it down to basically just the tractor itself and mounting a Diedrich D-25 drill rig to the back, using the PTO that ran the backhoe to power my drill rig hydraulics. I'll start a build thread once I start tearing into the truck Lots of great info on this site so far! About the only things that aren't working correctly on the truck are the tach is inoperable, the parking brake is seized, and some of the air lines are split, I could hear them hissing. Hopefully it will all be fairly simple, it looked like an easy to work on truck when I was climbing around underneath it today.
http://www.govplanet.com/for-sale/E...=FLU419,pstart=60,sm=1,sort=ad+asc&pnLink=yes
He hasn't done much other than clean it up some, but I felt more comfortable buying one I could test drive ahead of time. Plus I don't have to pay shipping on it. Comes with all sorts of neat hydraulic tools (chainsaw, breakers, drill bits, etc.) that unfortunately I won't be using or need.
I'm going to be stripping it down to basically just the tractor itself and mounting a Diedrich D-25 drill rig to the back, using the PTO that ran the backhoe to power my drill rig hydraulics. I'll start a build thread once I start tearing into the truck Lots of great info on this site so far! About the only things that aren't working correctly on the truck are the tach is inoperable, the parking brake is seized, and some of the air lines are split, I could hear them hissing. Hopefully it will all be fairly simple, it looked like an easy to work on truck when I was climbing around underneath it today.