110/130 weight carrying ability

[Mick Dempsey]

Well, about 2.5t of chip carrying capacity to start with. Jobs where you can chip on site you'd just need to take the Landy, and off-road jobs would be a lot easier if you don't have to tow a chipper being easier to manoeuvre etc. Landy would have the payload to carry a chipper (mounted to the bed) plus spare payload and space for lockable tool boxes etc.

 

Not ideal for everything for sure, but could be good setup for those based in more rural environments?

 

I think there was a thread about this before, there was lots of issues around height of feed tray, and dragging all that weight on the bed around for quoting etc. Necessitating yet another vehicle.

It was an interesting idea, but creates as many problems (if not more) than it solves.

[mattplace]

You could always make the landrover a flat bed and load a tracked chipper on it. My 3500kgs 110 tipper has a payload of 1300kgs so without the weight of the tipping gear and high sides, you could carry a forst tr6 at 1300kgs and tow a tipping trailer.

[benedmonds]

I still think the chipper mounted on a pickup with a tipping trailer has potential.. It would definitely give you a better legal load. I have only ever seen that timberwolf on the landrover and there was a a greenmech shredder on a sprinter i think..

[Mick Dempsey]

It's too high.

 

Imagine feeding brush ito that all day!

[woody paul]

No one has ever said side tip trailer with chipper on back .

[benedmonds]

It's too high.

 

Imagine feeding brush ito that all day!

 

There should be some way to make it work.. on a turntable.. you would struggle to get short bits in..

[Burgess]

Doesn't someone on here have a small Timberwolf on an RB44? Chips into the back of the RB

[Mick Dempsey]

Very good Ben!

[Skodadog]

Mine is a 2011 and it's 6500kg. I believe it's t350 2014 onwards. That said, I'm not sure I'd want to tow 350kg behind a transit and with 115bhp not even sure you really could!

 

It wasn't that many years ago that the big arctics of the day were running the length and breadth of the country with 180 hp.

Now days you can't drag a wheelbarrow round the houses with a transit with only 115 hp !

I must be getting older than I thought, still you can't argue with progress.

[richy_B]

It wasn't that many years ago that the big arctics of the day were running the length and breadth of the country with 180 hp.

Now days you can't drag a wheelbarrow round the houses with a transit with only 115 hp !

I must be getting older than I thought, still you can't argue with progress.

Must have been better gearing! Pulling a 1.7t excavator on a 500kg plant trailer and you have to work the transit quite hard.