Chipper mounted pickup???

[hazzygawa]

Has anyone seen a chipper mounted on the back of a pickup ? I have seen the landy at the apf but that cost a fortune. I was thinking about for example on the back of a Mitsubishi warrior, obviously it would have to be a turn table and fairly low to feed brash in, but if you had a trailer behind you could chipback into it.

 

Any thoughts ??? Have I come up with sumit ??? Probably not!

[Robert_S]

i built one years ago mounted behind the cab on a nissan cabstar that fed into a tipping chip body, it was great, i have some pictures somewhere i can look them out if you want and post them later.

[hazzygawa]

Great. I would like to see them if poss.

[armchairarborist]

yeah that would be an ace setup, you could have loads of room around the chipper for storage lockers too, it'd want some serious antivibe as it would shake the truck to bits pretty fast i imagine. you could even airbag the rear of the truck to get the loading height spot on everytime. and you could carry loads of chip in the right trailer and get through loads of work before you get overloaded.

[hazzygawa]

I've already built it ............... In my head. It's lovely. Sigh

[Robert_S]

i built it so i could park easier in the town it fed from the passenger side so everything could get brought out the garden and go right through the chipper, it was a bit high though i had it mounted on heavy duty engine mounts, i could also take the grinder on a small trailer and do the full job. it was handy on some jobs and a pest on others but nothing is perfect.

[tree_beard]

what chipper did you have on it robert?

[Robert_S]

a small petrol jenson i think it was about 5 inch, it was perfect for the smaller jobs as we were running a 10 inch chipper tow behind on another pick up.

[tree_beard]

cheers, thought it would be a toss up between chipper size and payload... (if i understand you correctly, that you had a small chip body on the same truck?)

 

find those pics:001_smile:

[Robert_S]

yep chipbox on truck but it was not small:lol: