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
More great pictures https://www.purplewave.com/search/*...erAlt=440f7947afdad679468298507f98ecc0&page=1
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.
Reminds me of the TV series "Junkyard Wars" !
those are great! I like the manifold to muffler exhaust