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9 hours ago, buffalo606 said:

I'd be tempted with this if I was quite a bit taller

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That’s pretty cool. I guess the only benefit in the UK having a truck mounted chipper and then blowing it into a tipper trailer is you can carry roughly 2.75 tonne of chip on a 3.5 T towing capacity pick up legally. 

 

If not double what you can legally have in the back of say, a transit tipper. 

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I can't seem to find any pics of mine but did stumble on a good idea recently. 5th wheel type trailers on pickups. Take a dmax for example. Once uprated, it has a train weight of 7000kg but if you had a 5th wheel trailer setup, the towing capacity would be 5.1t as it combines the 3.5t towing with the 1.6t load capacity of the towing vehicle and basically it all boils down to axle weights so you'd have to load 1.6t on the draw bar to make it work properly. It does however mean you could effectively remove 3t+ of chip as well as the chipper

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29 minutes ago, josharb87 said:

Youd need this kind of trailer to get round the uneven weight when unloaded. Gould even mount the chipper on the rear on a turntable and side tip box on the front so your not limited to side chipping/can back up narrow drives to the pile

 

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You’d need to be some driver to back that up a narrow drive!

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1 hour ago, arboriculturist said:

This is like trying to re-invent the wheel. There is a reason nobody in the UK does this. Drop the idea. Innovation v stupidity and it is important to know when to walk away. Sorry to be negative.

 

It could possibly work if it was a bespoke build. You have the possibility of 3.5 ton behind a 4x4 , if a 750kg chipper was split in two with the chipper part mounted on the back of the trailer and the power pack on the drawbar to balance it you could mount a side tip chip box in the middle. Admittedly it would be a one trick pony but its more than feasible and would still have a better legal  payload than a transit, as its a self contained unit it could also be left working on a job leaving the tow truck free to run about which is more than you can do with a normal truck/chipper combo.

Just sayin :)

 

Bob

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because bobs got fat fingers and is illiterate
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7 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

 

It could possibly work if it was a bespoke build. You have the possibility of 3.5 ton behind a 4x4 , if a 750kg chipper was split in two with the chipper part mounted on the back of the trailer and the power pack on the drawbar to balance it you could mount a side tip chip box in the middle. Admittedly it would be a one trick pony but its more than feasible and would still have a better legal  payload than a transit, as its a self contained unit it could also be left working on a job leaving the tow truck free to run about which is more than you can do with a normal truck/chipper combo.

Just sayin :)

 

Bob

sounds like you have thought about this when you starting build.

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