How Many MILES are on your plow rig

[Big Nate's Plowing]

mostly curious, poll is mutiple choice for more then one truck:D

[scfall]

1991 K1500 5.7 ltr. and still runs like a champ. But I do need to replace the rocker panels this fall drivers side has a quarter size hole in it .


:burnout Scott

[wyldman]

My truck has 460,000 KM on it,or about 290,000 Miles.Most of the other trucks are all high mileage too,but they are older.One of the sidewalk vans has almost 700,000 KM on it now.

Only low mileage vehicles are the salt trucks,which have around 120,000 KM,but they are ex-city trucks,and have a ton of hours on them.

[SIPLOWGUY]

93 F150 with 68,000 miles.

[sno-mover]

04' f-250 and as of today about 18.5k:( October 6 will make a year.:burnout

[PSDF350]

just about 15000 miles thursday (8/26) it will be going in for 15000 mile service.

[Pickering Snow]

from the top

04 f350 srw 1500 miles
03 f350 service truck 16,500 miles
02 f250 4900 miles
01 f250 8500 miles
97 f350 87,000 miles
97 jeep wrangler 16,000 miles
91 ford f150 91,560 miles
86 ford f250 97,750 orginal miles

Most of mine set during the off season there a long term investment and hope to get many years out of them look at the age and miles of the older trucks the 00 i sold in the spring had 24,500 on it . The service truck will end up with way higher mileage my old ranger service truck i sold with 238,000 on it

[PSDF350]

pickering snow you definitly dont have many miles on those. have you had them all since new?

[Western22288]

my ford f-250 now has 117,290miles on it. its pretty much all original. this will be its first year plowing with a 9ft boss

[PSDF350]

Originally posted by MEYER22288
my ford f-250 now has 117,290miles on it. its pretty much all original. this will be its first year plowing with a 9ft boss

not if you listen to chris in your thread i need help. you got it what you do with it is up to you.

[Honest Mike]

I voted the 150-200k mile option. Without going outside to look at it, I think I have about 157k or 158k miles on it. But like said above, she still runs fine, you would never know it had that many miles on it. It was purchased new though and taken care of like a baby from day one. With that said, anyone wanna buy this piece of crap from me?? :D Just kidding!! Mike :D

[Western22288]

hey mike ill give you $50 for it. $75 with the plow!!:D

[Honest Mike]

Add 2 zeros to the $75 and its yours. Mike :cash

[PSDF350]

Originally posted by Mike 97 SS
Add 2 zeros to the $75 and its yours. Mike :cash

o.k mike you have a deal $0075 didn't say where to add the 2 0:D

[Honest Mike]

I knew one of you guys would have a comment about the 2 zeros thing. I thought it would be the $75.00 comment though. ;) No the 2 zeros have to be to the right of the 5 and the decimal point after the second zero. When you are through, it should look like this: $7,500.00. Note I am not trying to sell my truck, so please dont move this thread to the For Sale forum, thank you. Mike :D

[PSDF350]

just goes to show you how dense i am i didn't even think of putting the zeros there:headwall

[jakegypsum]

Hmmm, Let's see.

1980 10' Western plow. (Official plow of the 1980 Olympics, Lol).
It's been on three trucks so far.

1972 Ford F-700 // approx 200,000 miles
1984 Ford F-700 // approx 150,000 miles
2003 Ford F-650 // 42,000 miles

1987 7'6" modified to 8'8" Western plow.
Two trucks so far.

1985 Chevy Blazer // approx 35,000 miles
1987 Ford F-700 // approx 150,000 miles

1982 6'6" Meyer
Four trucks but upgraded to 7'6" last year.

1982 Ford Ranger // approx 85,000 miles
1983 Ford F-100 (2 wheel drive) // approx 80,000 miles
1992 Ford F-250 // plow undersized but still got 50,000 miles.
2002 Ford F-250 Superduty // Just replaced plow but pump, controls, and lights still running strong, lol.

Jake.

[snowjoker]

155,000 on my 93 Chevy, not sure about the 84

[Tileman]

My 2000 GMC service truck has 58,000 +

B J s 1979 Chev the truck that has had the plow on it the longest. 150, to 200,000 miles 3rd or 4th motor, second trany, trans case rebuilt once. This was our first salt truck ( bags). This one goes out of service this year.

Himmys 1977 Chevy who knows?

Both boys are building 2 new trucks for this winter.

[snowplowjay]

The 96' Cherokee has 68,000miles
The 94' F350 has about 80,000miles
The 01' F250 has about 75,000miles
and when we took the test drive in our new F550 it had about 50miles on it :D...............................



Jay

[Honest Mike]

Jay, are you saying you guys picked it up?? If so, are the pictures soon to follow? :shades Mike :)

[fordsrule]

I have no clue how many miles are on my plow rig. a shovel:D its gotta have a few miles on it. shovilling the most of of the side walk on my street.:) two years untill i can drive and tell you the miles on my first plow truck

[snowplowjay]

Originally posted by Mike 97 SS
Jay, are you saying you guys picked it up?? If so, are the pictures soon to follow? :shades Mike :)

This coming Friday is the day Mike!!!!

I am going to be clearing a card for my digital camera to take some shots for sure!!!

Friday looks like a BBQ night down at Snow Plow Garage :D

The Three B's.........Beers and Burgers and B.S. in the bed of the new truck :)


Jay

[Pickering Snow]

Yea all the new suprdutys i bought new, the jeep i bought brand new when i worked for the jeep dealer, the 97 f350 had about 40k on it when i bought it my 91 f150 was around 60k when i found it and my true pride and joy of the fleet is the 86 f250 it was my dads and was new when he bought it when he died i bought it from my mother.

Jay this new f550 is becoming very similar to having a baby is comming just kidding looking forward to seeing it but i have bought enough new trucks to know it takes time to put deals together iam happy for Bill will ya please tell the one eyed bastard hello for me!!!

[snowplowjay]

Originally posted by Pickering Snow
will ya please tell the one eyed bastard hello for me!!!


Lol he is lurking around here too..............Its just that things are very busy so he hasn't been posting all that much lately 1eye1


Jay

[76chevyman]

The Three B's.........Beers and Burgers and B.S. in the bed of the new truck


Sounds like i need to take a ride up your way Friday. Ill bring the SOCO

Rich:burnout

[snowplowjay]

You should take the trip up!!!

We haven't seen you in ages Rich


Come on up or 2 way me Friday!!!


Jay

[BWhite]

I think I am up to 3500 mi

[76chevyman]

I think i can manage a trip up your way friday. Ill two way you friday. whats a good time.

Rich:burnout

[snowplowjay]

Any time im taking the day off from all work but Shop work and picking the truck up!!!!!








Jay

[business]

04 F-350 Diesel (Blue) 4000 miles
04 F-350 Diesel (Burgundy) 3000 miles
03 Kubota M-9000 219 hrs
04 Kubota L-5030 2.5 hrs

The truck runs awesome.

[Assured Services]

1994 Ram 2500 gasser, has 192,000 miles and still racking them up day by day. As for reverse, most likely have a ton of miles. Now that would be interesting to see how many miles us snow plowers have driven in reverse, LOL... :shades

[GMCHD4x4]

On the 02 HD daily driver 27,800 miles. On the 88 Toyota 187,000 miles and bought it with 100,000 and then put a blade on it, and not one problem!

[JustUsDe]

Here's some of our miles and hours.

2004 dodge 2500 cummuns - 1,000
2003 chevy 2500 hd - 14,000
2002 gmc 2500 - 37,000
1995 ford 150 - 138,000
2005 bobcat s175 - 15 hours
? case 580e backhoe - ?

[Plower737]

U gonna put a blizzard on that dodge, Just UsDe?

[kawdude]

Odometer stopped in august of 2002 at 200,289 on my 88 k1500

[JustUsDe]

Originally posted by Plower737
U gonna put a blizzard on that dodge, Just UsDe?

Brian,
Sorry it took so long to get back with you. I have been real busy. I shouldnt of said anything about the dodge until yesturday when it was official. I gained the dodge in one of the buyouts I am doing. I made settlement on the purchase of Dixon Landscaping. The Dodge is part of the business I bought. I have no plans for the dodge as of yet. I am still involved in some other dealings that is requiring me to purchase eqiupment more so than pickups with plows. I cant say anymore at this time to protect my investment. Monday after the contract is signed I can spill the beans. If all goes well I will be leaving DOT by the first of the year. The simply answer would be if the dodge is to get a plow it would be a Jerre Blizzard.

[Plower737]

WOW, and I thought you said you wanted nothing to do with lawn work? Good for you though. Hope all goes well with the deal.

[wyldman]

Just picked up a Ford diesel for another plow truck.She's just getting broken in at 467,000 km. :D

[PSDF350]

what kind Chris? pics what plow you going to put on it.

[wyldman]

It's an 84 Ford F250 with a 6.9L diesel,C6 auto.I used to have an 86 just like it way,way back.It was an awesome truck in it's day.

First order of business is to strip the stupid IFS out,and put a solid front axle under it.As far as a plow,I haven't decided yet.It will most likely get one of my spare Western 9 footers,with extensions.

The box is shot,so it will either be a flatbed,or a v-box for backup.

Here's a shot of my old 86.Hopefully I can restore this one to look just like it.I still have that homemade lightbar kicking around somewhere........ :D

[PSDF350]

i like the 86 Chris i have one sitting in my yard i bought last year with the intentions of fixing up but that hasn't happend yet. has 89,000 on it. curious how much and how difucult do you think it would be to convert from the 350 motor that needs a rebuild, to a diesil. also how hard is the front axle conversion. my plans for the truck is to either rebuild motor or buy crate motor or put in diesil, convert axle and rebuild tranny/transfer case (there both fine but figuire if i'm doing motor). then i figuire it will be a nice truck the problm i have is the work will have to be done by someone else becuase i dont have the skills or tools.

[PSDF350]

that should actually be a 351 windsor motor not a 350 my bad.:headwall

[BWhite]

I just past 4K miles , time for a new truck LOL, wanna Cummins 600

[JustUsDe]

Originally posted by Plower737
WOW, and I thought you said you wanted nothing to do with lawn work? Good for you though. Hope all goes well with the deal.

I still don't want anything to do with lawn work. I am retaining all employees for now. I am retaining the previous owner and his top foreman to run the landscaping side. My biggest reason for doing this was to obtain a few contracts with some brokers and properties management groups who wanted a one stop price for snow/lawn/development work. After a year the previous owner will retire and I hope things work out to where I can rely on the same foreman he has relied on to keep the lawn side running.

More growth and exciting news to come later this week.

P.S. If you or crafty want to bid some road plowing for a couple of subdivisions in odessa and smyrna I have the contacts I can lead you to. Bids need to be in by oct.4

[wyldman]

Originally posted by PSDF350
i like the 86 Chris i have one sitting in my yard i bought last year with the intentions of fixing up but that hasn't happend yet. has 89,000 on it. curious how much and how difucult do you think it would be to convert from the 350 motor that needs a rebuild, to a diesil. also how hard is the front axle conversion. my plans for the truck is to either rebuild motor or buy crate motor or put in diesil, convert axle and rebuild tranny/transfer case (there both fine but figuire if i'm doing motor). then i figuire it will be a nice truck the problm i have is the work will have to be done by someone else becuase i dont have the skills or tools.

The diesel swap,and the axle conversion isn't too hard.It's a driect bolt in if you have all the parts.It helps to have a donor truck for everything you need.

[PSDF350]

thanks Chris.

[cat320]

Dave you thinking of maybe a cummings for her?

[PSDF350]

i haven't got that far in my thinking Rick. a Cummings would be nice since it's my last name. but a cummins might work better:D

[Tileman]

Question? When the boys get the rebuilt trucks on the road, do they start with 0 miles or do they have to figure out how many miles are on all the parts they are using . :confused:


Let us know what to do.

Rich

[Robo]

Originally posted by MEYER22288
hey mike ill give you $50 for it. $75 with the plow!!:D

Sounds like what the dealerships are wanting to give me on my 99 for trade. Geesh I just bought this thing in January and got a good deal on it then and now they want to beat me up about $5000 from what I paid. With that said I guess I will have to let the good incentives pass me by this year....:(

Oh I almost forgot I have got 46000 on the clock...its a real junker if you listen to the brainiacs appraising her.;)

[Big Boss]

1992 Chevy 1-ton w/350 gasser,... & 283,000 FORWARD miles,...:burnout

[Grn Mtn]

31,000 this will be its fourth and last winter plowing -leased.

[Antnee77]

Yeah, I know this thread is two years old, but I figured why not.

47,000 miles so far on this Diesel beast.

[jcesar]

Lets see
96 gmc w/ western Unimount- 209,000
98 Chevy w/ western unimount- 147,000
01 Dodge w/ Boss Vplow- 74,000
Lawnmower- priceless!!!!:haha

[Western22288]

guess i should update this also, my 1993 f-250 now has 150,000 miles:grinz

the f-550 has around 45,000miles

and my 2000 f-250 has 54,000 on it:nodd

[mikelawtown]

My 90 K5 has 186k on her and runs great, maybe selling it this year though..

[niteman9]

1990 Dodge 34,000 miles former US goverment truck.

[PremierLandscaping]

2000 F350 V10 DRW - 8'6" Western Ultramount: 57,000 Miles
2006 Chevy 2500HD - 8" Western Ultramount: 3,000 Miles

[brunosplace]

97 Jeep 137K
96 Dodge 155K

[GuzmanProperties]

1997 F250 HD - 32,000 miles

bought it used with the plow this fall expecting snow.

what was I thinking........:headwall

[jdadjstr]

Wrangler has 55k on it.

[BSDeality]

turned the clock over 150K on the 94 Toyota in the tail end of the last storm we had.

[nick13]

1989 chevy blazer 6.6' fisher plow 144,664
1994 ford f150 7.6 fisher plow 134,002

[kahuna]

2006 ford 20,000 Miles

2000 ford 102,000 Miles

[sonjaab]

My 07 Chevy is about to have its first birthday and has 7000 miles!
My Western plow is 9 years old has been on 3 different trucks and
worked hard and has been about bulletproof !

Hopefully in 2 years when I get another new truck it will be finally
wore out so I can get me a badazz Erie Special and get wide !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..........geo

[King of Diamonds]

Hi

This little Ol guy is a 1987 and it has just turn 60,000 original miles!
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/Yumhaha/003.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/Yumhaha/002.jpg

I just went through the mechanicals:
All new Brake lines, Brakes, rotors, drums, , master cylinder, proportioning valves, shocks, battery, exhaust, oil pan, water pump, steering pump, fuel lines, pump , sending unit, I had to the heads off to reapir exhaust manifolds so I did a valve job while they were off. the reason I had to do this was it sat for nearly four years on an unpaved surface so moisture had its toll on it. I also replaced the plow pump motor and flushed the hydro fluid.

i plan on building a pair of HD bumpers for front and rear, I want to incorporate thye front bumper into the plow frame. I also plan on fixing a couple of small rust spots and a scrape, and painting the truck. I will need to replace the headliner since it hangs down obstructing by view. I hope to get a pair of new plow lights,a headache rack and small strobe light as well.