These are the guys I want to get truck parts from

[crane operator]

Too bad they retired and sold out. Purplewave today sold these two homemade forklifts and two homemade material handlers.

These things are a dream, and actually brought more money than I thought they would.

The company was G & R Truck parts in wichita KS.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Can't afford a forklift - just build your own. This is america at its finest- no fine tuned german engineering here- just someone with access to a junkyard and time

 

[crane operator]

 

[crane operator]

More great pictures

https://www.purplewave.com/search/*...erAlt=440f7947afdad679468298507f98ecc0&page=1

 

[kenh]

They look rather robust, something that can be handed down from generation to generation for a few centuries!

 

[Birken Vogt]

They look rather robust, something that can be handed down from generation to generation for a few centuries!

There are some machines like that on the farm I grew up on.

If any part ever breaks they cut it out and weld it back with new material twice as thick as it was before.

 

[kshansen]

Reminds me of the TV series "Junkyard Wars" !

 

[Muffler Bearing]

those are great! I like the manifold to muffler exhaust