7.5 ton iveco with forst st8

[nailer]

cheers guys..appreciate it.

 

Thomas, Forst can do it any colour you like..think it's an extra £500.

 

Swinny, the difference is unbelievable, the amount of extra work you can fit on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got the truck body made flush with the cab width so we can get it on most driveways. And extra height for extra chip!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Gray git]

Looks really smart and professional

Let's hope the custom paint job stays on better than my standard 1 has.

 

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[benedmonds]

cheers guys..appreciate it.

 

I got the truck body made flush with the cab width so we can get it on most driveways. And extra height for extra chip!

 

Nick Bailey Manchester Tree Surgeons - tree surgery, tree pruning and tree felling

 

Have you weighed it full? We are getting ours in the next week or two and after seeing yours are considering adding some height to the chip box..

[PeteB]

Umpteen years ago, I hired one while a Transit was re-shelled following a crash. I have to admit, I was woefully disappointed at the volume that they could legally carry. Partially due to the truck body and length, partially due to distribution. We thought that shortened 10 or 12 tonner would have been better for not much more money!

[nailer]

Hi Ben, your truck looks like a longer wheelbase and a bigger toolbox, so payload may be different. Our older truck with a 2 ton Vermeer, and chip spilling out the back got weighed on the Kellogg's weighbridge in Trafford Park Manchester, home of Tony the Tiger, and the whole lot was 12.5 ton; so they can still be overloaded. We wouldn't normally ram it that full - only as it was being tipped off elsewhere on the site.

Pete, the Iveco 7.5 ton and 10 ton are essentially the same truck when you look at their spec sheets. A 12 ton obviously carries more but harder to find as a used truck, and then starts becoming a wider truck.. and then you'd only make the body on it even higher to get more chip onboard and on and on it goes..ha!

...but a 7.5 tonner should be carrying a lot more chip than a 3.5 ton transit.

 

 

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[Jonny69]

Hi Ben, your truck looks like a longer wheelbase and a bigger toolbox, so payload may be different. Our older truck with a 2 ton Vermeer, and chip spilling out the back got weighed on the Kellogg's weighbridge in Trafford Park Manchester, home of Tony the Tiger, and the whole lot was 12.5 ton; so they can still be overloaded. We wouldn't normally ram it that full - only as it was being tipped off elsewhere on the site.

Pete, the Iveco 7.5 ton and 10 ton are essentially the same truck when you look at their spec sheets. A 12 ton obviously carries more but harder to find as a used truck, and then starts becoming a wider truck.. and then you'd only make the body on it even higher to get more chip onboard and on and on it goes..ha!

...but a 7.5 tonner should be carrying a lot more chip than a 3.5 ton transit.

 

 

Nick Bailey Manchester Tree Surgeons - tree surgery, tree pruning and tree felling

 

Hi,

 

So net of the 2 ton chipper, full of woodchip those trucks are 3 ton overweight?

 

Would that make them 3 ton overweight? or roughly 10m3 of chip.

 

They look very smart btw

[benedmonds]

There is a sticker on the side that says 4200kgs, I am assuming that is the empty weight so we should have about 3000kgs for chip which is 10 times as much as a transit crewcab..

[nailer]

thinking about it, the chipper was more like 2.5 ton, but yes, filled to the rafters, still well overloaded, when plated as 7.5 ton.

As it's essentially the same truck as a 10 ton maybe it should be up-plated to 10.

 

 

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[steve@black]

That has to be one of the slickest best value units about , really like the idea of just the name and let the client do the rest . Forst haven't mentioned colour schemes to me yet and have to say black could well be the one for us should we go down that road .

[nailer]

The guys in the Forst factory apparently think our black and white version should be the new look for all Forst chippers.

Not sure why everything to do with tree work has to have some shade of orange on it somewhere?

 

 

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