Anyone use pick up trucks for small/medium tree and hedge jobs?

[Lou Brown]

Thinking of trading in my current BMW for something I can use as a family car and for small tree work and hedging jobs. Obviously  looking for double cabs- either a ranger, Hilux, X class or similar- but being double cab they have a bed length of around 1.5 metres, which is borderline being cable to have more than 2 tonne bags bagged up with leaves in it, stacked ontop of eachother. 
a 3.5 tonne truck is a bit excessive for me at the moment and insurance and parking is a bit of a problem! 
anyone else used a pick up or have any thoughts about it all? Cheers 

[Steve Bullman]

Is a small trailer out of the question?

[nepia]

I've used Navara Kingcabs for 18 years.  You can add a trailer to carry more and/or make up some greedy boards.  

Do you have a tripod ladder?  If so you can use it to hold down several dumpy bags of arisings; stand on the ladder to press the dumpy bags down and to get the front feet down into the back of the buck against the tailgate and strap the thin end to the ladder rack behind the cab (you need one of those to put mesh onto to protect the rear screen). All sounds a bit niche but it's how I've done small tree and hedge work for all that time (with the trailer bit).