A good milking cow is bringing around $2000-2500. I could probably get a couple past my kid but I know my wife will notice, she's hand raised them all and each has a name, in fact Dalila is in our freezer right now

 

I m thinking we could tell here that we are going to go get them... Sized for a new milking machine ..... And that.... Uummm.... It will make Jr's life easier!!!
Three or four should do it!!

 

Ask Laurie what is the worst that can happen? Bring back another truck or two? Could be worse, I don't know what that could be but there's a lot of things that could be worse.

 

If it were up to me I'd have someone back a BIG cattle trailer up to the barn and haul all of them away.

The barn would be a good place to store a bunch of trucks that I could sit on for a few years and then sell them as "Barn Finds"

 

That's what I said!!!!! It s not like I have a big drug habit ......
Is old Ford trucks a drug??????:-

 

I have found they are addictive!

 

Its all in the name. We name them too Bob. We just get a bit more creative on the names. There has been "Ribeye", "T Bone", "Hamburger", etc. I think the one in our freezer right now was called "Soup Bone"

Delicious!
Bobby

 

Just noticed this thread had 60 plus replies and I just assumed we were still discussing the cross breeding of other brand engines into a Ford.........well what happened? Milk cows, manure spreaders?

 

I know, kind of degraded into farm talk, sorry. I much rather talk Ford trucks and goofy ideas involving Ford trucks.

 

The title of the thread is "BEST power plant" . That would be a MOPAR hemi......

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

Your gonna find so many rust free trucks your gonna have to
ship them by train. There is no limit (except your wallet) that
can be hauled on a train. A flat car is cheap when ya stack
them to the sky.

 

You find a truck Bob???
I'm taking Laurie to the airport on Friday morning.

 

I probably overpaid for mine, I paid about $4500 for a complete truck.

But I have sold about $2500 worth of parts I am not using.

In the end I will have close to $20k wrapped up in it after paint and that is with disk brakes, 17' chrome bullet wheels, new bed, IFS front suspension, rebuilt 302 and AOD trans, boxed and braced frame, rebuilt explorer 8.8, new interior... yadda yadda

Is there money to made there? Not much and certainly not enough to justify all that work, just to give it away to someone.

 

There are different levels of builds.

There's builds that are built to the owner's wants. Usually those are trucks the owner is building that he wants and is going to keep so cost to profit ratio isn't important. The truck will be torn down to the frame and every part taken off and either rebuilt or upgraded. Then a high level paint job with every individual body panel painted separately, assembled and wet sanded and buffed to a mirror finish.
all of these take a lot of extra time in both doing the work and finding parts. These types of builds are being built to a high standard and every part is taken off of the vehicle. These builds are going to scrutinized down to the last bolt and they cost a lot of bucks to do.

Then there are builds that can be done on a lower level. Not tearing the truck down to the frame and not taking every piece apart, blasting it clean and repainting it. I think a build can be accomplished to build something that looks nice from ten feet away, or cruising around town. Doing the necessary work to make it mechanically safe and proper body work with a simple one stage paint job with minimum after work, while the truck is all in one piece. I have know more than a few people who have been able to flip cars in this latter category. These weren't high end cars, just something the buyer wanted to use to cruise around in town in.

All of the guys I've known who were able to turn a profit on the lower end flips did all the work themselves, which I would do. I do all my own body and paint work, which is usually the most expensive part of the build. Also, I would go with a stock engine, nothing with upgraded components. I also have a fairly decent stash of parts that I can dip into so I can save a little with that.

I am not married to this idea, it's just something I am kicking around.

 

So Bob, without knowing exactly how your shop is equipped, why not investigate reproducing basic patch panels for the Bonus Builts. Nothing that would be built requiring Ford licensing, just panels that would fit. Lower fender, cab corners, etc.
Just typing out loud.