A guy I know has one of these that looks almost the same as the piece in the picture. I've never heard of the thing before yesterday. He priced it at $700 as a non-running machine. It's an inline 6 cyl gas engined machine. It looks very heavy and appears that the hydraulic cylinders are plenty strong.
His story (which I tend to believe) is that it was running up until he shut it off and left the key on, which burned the points. Supposedly he can't find the points at auto parts places, but hasn't checked tractor supply. i'm only assuming at this point that it doesn't have a cracked block or something.
Any opinions?