Manual tip versus electric tip

[Ratman]

This is good advice.

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Flowfit 12v tipping pumps are cheap, but make sure you get one with a big enough reservoir to fill the ram. You’ll need 10l plus. 
Don’t forget if you are converting a trailer from manual to 12v tipping you’ll also need a battery and somewhere to mount it (or good leads and some form of connection to your tow vehicle - check out Anderson connectors). This does add cost obviously.
Manual hydraulic tippers are very hard work, the novelty soon wears off. Spend a bit more and marvel at how powerful a 12v motor is!!! 

Dito [emoji106]

[spuddog0507]

2 hours ago, jmac said:

Manual tip is crap for fly tipping ?. Had one at last place I worked, think it took 3 hundred pumps to tip it fully! Good advice from Bob, mine has it's own battery and manual backup handy for when the battery goes flat and I need to take it out to charge.

All the tipping gear on Ifors have the manual back up as standard with the electric as main tip, i have used mine once on the manual tip and like you say 300 pumps its a night mare but it works and its there to get you out the shit if electric side fails,

[Ratman]

All the tipping gear on Ifors have the manual back up as standard with the electric as main tip, i have used mine once on the manual tip and like you say 300 pumps its a night mare but it works and its there to get you out the shit if electric side fails,

Did you stop for a roll up at the half way point? ?

[mtt.tr]

I do not miss having a hand pump trailer, getting an electric pump all those years ago felt like we had entered the 21st century. 

 

[carsmarco252]

I've looked at all the tippers and value for money I'm considering the 9x5 brian james tipper. The side extensions look brill. 

[nepia]

They are but they're not up to timber grabs dropping 1/4 ton lumps of tree into the trailer from 6ft up; they will take stuff being leant against them but not being battered.

 

I'm in East Surrey; you're more than welcome to give mine the once over if you're within striking distance.

 

 

 

 

Jon

[maybelateron]

On 22/08/2020 at 00:17, Ratman said:

If you can get a manual tip for less than £500 less than a electric tip then you can get a flowfit electric conversion kit for £350, then your in pocket straight away. If you sell the trailer on then you can recoup the cost at resale or take it off to sell on again or refit to something else.

I bought a new Bateson 8x5 manual tipper with high sides in 2003. Within a couple of years I did this exact conversion to electric tip. Sooner or later I will be replacing the trailer, either with an Ifor 8x5 electric tip, or the same Bateson again if they will make it electric tip for me. That said, I like the Ifor principle of having a manual backup facility. I have been delivering several loads of woodchip recently in my Ifor 12ft high sides tipper - imagine if the electric tip failed and i have to shovel out 7 cubes?