Haul roads toward the Chino copper pits
Twelve miles due east, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records two metal-mine entries side by side: Chino Mine and Chino Mines Co Mine. A tractor, dump or service body that has spent its shifts going to and from those gates is the kind of equipment we collect from around Little Walnut Village. Tell us which side of the operation it served and send the VIN with your first message.
Equipment tied to a mine site often stays parked near the yard it worked from rather than at a house in town. If yours sits at a lot east of Silver City, give us the gate or road name so the pickup driver knows exactly where to go, and say whether anyone needs to sign it out.
Quarry and gravel plant south-east of the village
Roughly eleven miles out on a south-easterly bearing, federal mine-safety records place Limestone Quarry/Fabtec 3, a crushed-stone quarry, at 10.8 miles, and a sand and gravel operation called Portable Plant at 11.1 miles. Belly dumps, end dumps, water trucks and mixers are the units that usually run between plants like these and the job sites they feed.
If your dump body or mixer drum has hauled aggregate from either site, photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab interior in daylight. Include a shot of the registration card too, showing the plate number alongside the frame tag.
Cattle, goats and horses on the ranches around the village
Around this corner of New Mexico, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 334 farms in Grant County, with cattle first, then goats, then equine. That ranch mix keeps livestock haulers, flatbeds carrying hay and pickups with gooseneck hitches busy on county roads.
A stock truck or hay hauler on a ranch is usually parked by a barn or corral, sometimes well off pavement. Describe the gate, the driveway surface and any cattle guard on the way in, and we will plan the collection around the property instead of asking you to move the truck.
Silver City MVD
A duplicate title from the Silver City field office on the highway east
Only 3.2 miles from Little Walnut Village, the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division runs its NM MVD Field Office - Silver City at 1876 E, US Hwy 180, Silver City, 88061. That field office is where an owner here can apply for a duplicate if the original title has gone missing.
Bring photo identification and the VIN to that counter, and if a lender once held the truck, ask for a lien release first so the replacement prints clean. Once the duplicate is in hand, the title, the current registration and any service records you kept are everything we need to complete the purchase.
Emission rules on the books for Little Walnut Village trucks
Two state regulations are listed as in force: the Advanced Clean Trucks rule, a medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle requirement with reporting and compliance terms, and the Heavy-Duty Omnibus rule, which sets exhaust emission standards for heavy-duty engines.
For an owner in Little Walnut Village, the practical step is simple: keep the engine’s emission label legible and note the engine model year when you write to us. With that label and year in hand, we can confirm the truck’s certification without a second round of questions.
The questions we get asked in Little Walnut Village
- Will you come out to a mine yard near Chino to collect a truck?Chino Mine sits 12 miles east of Little Walnut Village by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect from where the truck is parked, including yards out that way. Send the address and any site access rules with your photos.
- My title went missing; which MVD counter near Little Walnut Village issues a duplicate?The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division’s NM MVD Field Office - Silver City, at 1876 E, US Hwy 180, is 3.2 miles from the village and handles duplicate titles for owners here.
- Do you buy livestock trucks and hay haulers off ranches here?Grant County’s 334 farms, led by cattle in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, keep stock trucks and flatbeds working, and we buy those from the ranch where they sit. Tell us what the truck carried and how to reach it.