I decided to go in with my neighbor and coworker who has a farm to buy an old dump truck. With me and my neighbor wanting to dig out our basements, and my coworker wanting to dig a pond on his farm, I found an old dump truck for $2500. Driving it back took about 4 hours, and learning to drive an unsynchronized transmission is a lot harder than I thought.
I decided to get it weighed after I got it back to the farm:
The interior is in super rough shape, most of the guages don't work, the one working headlight is basically useless, only 1 of the 2 brake lights on each side works, the brake pedal sticks just enough for the tail lights to stay on, and the dump box is in super rough shape (works properly though). But it runs (and starts) great with a decent battery, and was way cheaper than a reasonably sized dump trailer for my truck. It's a 1979 GMC Brigadier with a 6-71 2-stroke Detroit Diesel and manual 13-speed Eaton transmission.
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