SE-Ia Cowman
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Well I updated service trucks a few weeks ago and I am amazed with the room and quality of the new truck, I had a 2004 F550 with the 6.0 powerstroke and a full hydraulic crane and air compressor with auto crane body, I was always fighting the junk e brake it might hold on the level but never on a slope, I was also completley out of room. When I bought it 3 years ago it was my first truck and it worked OK but never well. When fully loaded with tools and cribbing blocks it weighed 19,000+ when on a job sight you were very hard on the clutch when starting in soft ground,
The new truck, 2006 ford F650 has a cat C7, 7 speed trany, air brakes, hydraulic outriggers, and a wireless remote for the crane, it also has 2, 50 gallon oil tanks with air pumps, and the welder is mounted between the cab, it is so nice not to have to crawl up to start and stop and hook up the welder. I have everything in this truck I had in the other and more it only weighs 22,700 and it handles the weight and makes starts and stops with no problem, I also have about twice as many drawers as before, and that makes organization much easier. The new body is a STI and it is very well built my only complaint is the crain only has 1 hydraulic section makes it tough in a building to manuver. It also has air ride suspension wich is nice and I plumbed a electric dump valve in to make it easier to get in and out of the back. I will try to get some more pictures posted but here is one
The new truck, 2006 ford F650 has a cat C7, 7 speed trany, air brakes, hydraulic outriggers, and a wireless remote for the crane, it also has 2, 50 gallon oil tanks with air pumps, and the welder is mounted between the cab, it is so nice not to have to crawl up to start and stop and hook up the welder. I have everything in this truck I had in the other and more it only weighs 22,700 and it handles the weight and makes starts and stops with no problem, I also have about twice as many drawers as before, and that makes organization much easier. The new body is a STI and it is very well built my only complaint is the crain only has 1 hydraulic section makes it tough in a building to manuver. It also has air ride suspension wich is nice and I plumbed a electric dump valve in to make it easier to get in and out of the back. I will try to get some more pictures posted but here is one