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[Willie B]

Originally Posted by txagincali

Looks nice!
How did you get the body off? Unbolt and lifted? Or plasma cut it to pieces? Just curious since I am about to tackle a similar operation on a 69 C50 former fire truck.

The TBL (Case 580K) didn't have enough reach with front loader. We used the hoe to lift the front of the body. The back being much less than half was lifted with a loader on a small utility farm tractor. Both machines were over their capacity.

The phone rings twice a week with offers to take the fire body off my hands for free. My son has a brainstorm for a pickup flatbed cutting it up. That seems OK to me. I weld aluminum. Many times I've bought at top dollar the same material this thing is built from. The cast iron pump, I'll scrap.

The 1000 gallon poly tank is the stuff VT sugarmakers use.