Converting a truck to a tipper - advice

[rapalaman]

I found an Ali body from a transit on eBay- cut the steel body off my iveco daily, swapped them over with help from a mate and various bars/levers etc. 

welded brackets up in situ, bolted it down then made high sides from box steel and ply. Gave it a few coats of bitumen based paint and this lasted me three years. Took about a week and done for under 1k all in - this was about 10 years ago mind so prices have risen since then

[slasherscot]

I bought a a transit crew cab flatbed and got it converted tipper  with alloy arb box....the good thing is every thing is new, especially the running gear the alloy box sits...cost about 4k plus vat

[scbk]

I'm a psychopath, I went the other way! I had a renault master with a rotten tipper body. Got a great condition dropside (non tipper) body, from a transit, and fitted that, on my own. Not too complicated to make the mountings work.

 

Gave the old hydraulic pump and ram to a friend, sold the old (alloy) tipper sides for £100!

 

Handy little runaround, and the dropside has a swinglift on it, which to me is as handy as a tipper would be. (I know you could fit a swinglift to a tipper anyway....)