I Can't Believe what this Old FREIGHTLINER Semi Scrapped out for! 

plus $600 for the transmission and engine was seriously low

Agreed , that is a bargain,

@@Scottybravo1 I had them advertised for $1,000 for almost a year with no luck. Next step was scrap them for $400

People looking for a truck want to drive it people looking for parts probably would've been the ones to go to but that engine is a farm truck engine not a daily driven engine

@@davidwoermansr I like someone to try to defend someone for their actions. I like Silas and agree with his actions. I also have owned and was a professional driver of a fleet of trucks. I have been a professional mechanic for a large portion of my life as most know to run a business of large trucks, both highway and off highway rigs.... you should know how to work on them. I started working for my dad in the late fifties as a helper to him. I am a native man who was not allowed to go to white schools..,.. just the way things were then. I hold no offense to this as I got my own education in the army as well as working in the motor pool for two years certifications earned were in diesel mechanics. I have heard of tuning a engine for farm applications or as a unrestricted fuel engine because of not needing to pass emissions for the highway. All said and done,... no such thing as a farm truck if its hauling grain to market... those trucks... example is Welker farms, they did shows showing rebuilds of their farm licenced trucks that had to haul grain (Products) to their markets or even cole the cornstar has some videos of his brother and their working hard on trucks they pick up to fix for farms or highway use. I will never make a statement to lead you or anyone else wrong about the mechanical stuff because it was my bread and butter for a good many years. If you mention my first name Morgan in the southeast alaska communities, you will find I was known by that name as a good mechanic and machinist/fab work from the late seventies up to 84. I only moved to anchorage to keep my son alive as long as I could. He had infantile Leukemia. I spent from my own pocket every dime I had including selling everything I had to do this. He came down with this horribly deadly disease on his mom's birthday in october.. and in the start of two years or twenty months later, on june twelfth at 2:26 pm, he looked at me knowing I and his mother were by him said I love you momma and po.... gone! I am sorry for a very poorly structured sentence or all of them for that matter. English to me is almost a second language as we spoke our Hyda language as much as possible for Nana or grand mother was only able to speak the native tongue so respect for her was extremely high. If I offended you by replying with poor english, I humbly apologize for it and just cuss me as many do not like the native man. I had five very beautiful daughters and there was no shortage of boys calling.... mostly white boys as our numbers are not high in the population and we do not intermarry among ourselves. I now am way off of subject.. Almost any later model engine put out by cummins or other major manufactures have records of their engines as warranty and many parts are only one engine series specific so ordering say a water pump. You put in year, model and applications to find it and it will come back with long or short shaft, high mount or low mount style (ask any repair shop that does professional work)... you just can't give too much information on your engine or other parts .. information is your best lead or friend. I agree that people like to test a engine or whole rig and Silas mentioned he was selling it as a parts rig for the title would prove hard to replace and anyone going to DMV, will attest to how its quite hard to get titles that are lost or a rig just abandoned to field, or wrecking yards...etc. Any transmission that would fit this truck.. even a bad transmission, say case is cracked in a wreck would cost more than he asked for this rig. I can tell you that until a Chinese nock off came to be, radiators will for big rigs cost as in a range of used about a thousand and rebuilt are high, no one works for free. A new radiator is probably and now just guessing at prices, I haven't bought parts now for a quite a few years. After I got crippled up in 2005, i worked as a parts consultant until my health put my on dialysis which just finally took me out. I am sorry I have wasted a good portion of your day trying to read something our gradeschool children could do much better at. In a longest reply to your statement of a farm engine, this was not a farm only truck because it carried licence and required lighting, exhaust, mud flaps, etc that are obvious to a persons eye. That truck was capable of being driven to anywhere in state or depending on his carrier permits able to go across country just like any other highway truck. I sent this by personal e-mail to Gentry and sons located in Tennessee this truck was available. I have spoke only by email with Tim and so with the many he has subscribed... I really doubt he would remember me by name or other as he has no reason to. I really do like helping some find pieces or parts for different stuff if I can.... this reply is just way way too long. I in short am saying this is not a farm only engine and even if it was, a block that could be rebuilt is in the range of a couple thousand dollars and shall say if you can even find a able to run engine for that price. I could go on for days and to tell the truth said too much. So sorry if I offended you

Huh

@@davidwoermansr how do you figure that's not a daily driver Cummins is the only engine you can get in new trucks today that was a great engine not a farm engine it's more popular then Detroit or cats even though people want cats more but you can't get rebuild parts for them now same with Detroit's there hard to get but there are parts for the older Cummins

@@timatwell3728 it just wasn't a dependable enough engine to be desired in OTR rigs that's why they're commonly found on farms they don't see as many miles in several years as an OTR truck sees every year

If that had a title it’d be a 10k truck. It’s too bad nobody bothered to try and get one.

@@mintyman1968 12.5 k

That’s how it goes. Some day I’m going to find a car and an identical twin. Crush the twin car and when everyone says they would have paid $$$, I’ll offer the original and see what their excuse is 😆

@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch If I would’ve known it was a part out I know a fellow who would’ve bought the hood, cab fairings, fuel tanks and maybe interior pieces

@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch i was blowin minty man shit silas ....i love watching u smash stuff .....no need in explaining its ur stuff man ...do what cha like ..... i do love the twin thing ,,,,HA oh i would gave ya 2 k ..."oh really i have another exactly like that onw when can i sexcpect u to pick it up" ...LMOa

I’m just not in to selling parts. I did that for over a decade and got very burned out.

@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch I don’t blame you I have a ton of stuff from doing storage units and junk removal and figuring out what some of this stuff is sometimes is harsh and time consuming. We both know time is valuable.

He said 400

Metal is way up

@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch oh ok,

Is this my uncle RON from Texas?

We paid them $40,000. If they weren’t willing to get a title for $40k, I doubt another $500 would do it. Not worth the hassle anyway.

The difference between a salvage yard and scrap yard is you can buy stuff at a salvage yard

Weak sauce

Yeah I just talked with him he said he could’ve used them parts

You should have bought them for $150 when they were for sale 😆

@@AdventuresMadeFromScratch I would have never heard of you before you scrapped it.

That’s not my car

Yes! Email me if interested. My email is in the description of the video.

The same thing happens to me. If I have it, it’s junk. If someone else has it, it’s priceless 😆

It was on marketplace for 2 years. All people had to do was do a search for it. If I put my phone number out for everyone it would ring 24 hours a day and I’d never get anything done 😆

Very little actually. I have 10 oxygen bottles and 3 propane. I spend about $500 per year

After trucks in the U.S. go for 5 or 6 years (or 800K to 900K miles) they are usually sold to Mexican trucking firms. Less regulations and maintenance costs south of the border. Also, companies in the U.S. try to (generally) keep newer trucks to retain drivers.

😆

They aren’t his family was the problem I think. Wasn’t that important to them, which I guess I can understand. They sold it to us for scrap price so we can’t complain

An empty diesel tank has a 0% chance of exploding especially when the torch isn’t cutting anywhere close to it. If it was gasoline and you were actually cutting a hole in the tank then yeah it would be dangerous.