Old pics

[Rupe]

Just digging through some pics today. They are not that old, still digital,older than this forum though. One day I might scan some older ones in.

 

Heres some of my truck when I first got it. Its the same truck that was used in the arb challenge at the trade fair.

 

Notice the back end of my old subaru! I'll tell a good story about that later!!

[Rupe]

With side tool box instead of spare wheel! this box holds three 20l jerry cans plus oils, poison etc

[Steve Bullman]

whats the pulley set up?

 

oh and definetly tell the story about the subaru, including pictures.....in fact that deserves a whole thread of its own haha

[Mr Ed]

the subaru story is hilarious.

[Rupe]

The pulley set up is to pull up/lower the flap behind the cab so you can see out the back. When chipping you pull on the bit of fly and the flap comes up. Its held in place by an old petzl basic ascender.

 

The pulleys were part of my first homemade rigging kit before ISC existed. Using a T-bar lowering device made out of scaffold poles! Of course they got a hammering and the plates closed up. Good on the truck though, its still going strong.

[Rupe]

There was also a sliding panel so you could see out over your left shoulder for difficult junctions but no one ever used it and it warped and leaked woodchip so its now screwed shut.

[Rupe]

Anyway I'm just building up to the subaru story!

[Rupe]

Recently the rear lights on the truck were about to fall off. The whole rear

frame that hold the lights was rusty so I cut them off and re mounted the lights under the tipping body, should have done that years ago, would have saved on light lenses and gaffa tape!

[Rupe]

Also the rear tailgate was bent when I got it and got worse! I made a new one out of and old pair of stepladders. All lightweight but reinforced aluminium. Still going strong now two year later.

Here it is with our experimental double barrelled chipper. Filling the truck in 15 minutes

[Steve Bullman]

must be a bugger to reverse