New chip box.

[tommer9]

After a disastrous day on the mill, with endless bandblade issues with a handler on hire too:thumbdown:, I gave up on milling at about 5pm and built new sides for the chip box. I have been using ply for years, but recently i have finally got fed up with the appearance. I wanted second hand ali to match the bottom half of the tipper body which i built about 6 years ago, as I thought new would look too shiny. It has taken me a while to find second hand lorry sides of the right plank size for a reasonable price (one scrappy wanted more than new would have cost!!!) but I finally got some the other day. Total build cost of the new bit....£112, and about 4 hours work:thumbup:

A bit more work with the steel wool to make it all the same shininess after work tomorrow methinks.

 

 

[Gareth Dalzell]

Worth the wait - looking good:thumbup1:

[tractorboy1]

Looks good mate.

[combined tree services]

verry posh tom , i trust the customer will now pay a rather higher premium to have you with your shiney sides working in gardens ! do they make the landy go any faster or is that why your pollishing them with wire wool to get the wind resistance down ?? on a serious note its loking much better mate , where did you get the aly too ?

[tommer9]

Its heavier than before.......so now i probably have NO legal carrying capacity whatsoever lol.

 

As you know i have been looking for ages, and out of the blue someone mentioned a chapin Illogan who does a bit with lorry body work. He had the sides and tailgate off an ex bt 7.5 tonner, which he let me have for scrap price. He still has 3 sides left, at £50 per side, they are 21" high and at a guess 2.5 metres long, maybe a bit more. Ill measure the offcut tommorow and bell you Dave.

[tommer9]

Hers a before piccy..

[Rupe]

Brillo pads for shining it up mate!!

[combined tree services]

Its heavier than before.......so now i probably have NO legal carrying capacity whatsoever lol.

 

As you know i have been looking for ages, and out of the blue someone mentioned a chapin Illogan who does a bit with lorry body work. He had the sides and tailgate off an ex bt 7.5 tonner, which he let me have for scrap price. He still has 3 sides left, at £50 per side, they are 21" high and at a guess 2.5 metres long, maybe a bit more. Ill measure the offcut tommorow and bell you Dave.

 

cheers mate , it would be handy to have . what you on tomorrow ? i was inspecting some trees near you today and was going to pop in with bri but we ended up getting called away to another job .

[tommer9]

Brillo pads for shining it up mate!!

 

Lol- thats what tomorrow evenings job is I think...if i have any energy left.

 

I got halfway through it and kept getting images in my mind of your LDV mate:blushing:

[geoff]

Looks realy good!