best works vehicle?

[BarneyH]

So, with any luck I'll be starting my own arb business and buying a vehicle in the next six months. What vehicles do people use? What's good, what's not?

 

Cheers

[Robert_S]

whats your budget?

 

do you need a tipper or a 4x4 or a 4x4 tipper, its endless mate as it depends on workload but a budget narrows it down.

 

Welcome to the forum

[Eagle]

It depends on what you want to achieve....Do you 'have' to go off road? Will you have a chipper? You either start small with a 4x4 pick up/tipper, Tranny, Mitsu, Iveco or go big with a Unimog, or tractor/trailer combo. All depends on budget versus requirement. Money usually decides everything in the end!

[elfinwood saws]

Get one of these!

[slack ma girdle]

Land Rover Land Rover la la la lala........

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Depends entirely upon what type of work you do and what/if you want to tow.

 

Having said that, Unimog Unimog Unimog.

[combined tree services]

as has been already said it depends on what your work load is and the requirements of a vehicle to get the work done . We run a Unimog u1600 , a ford ranger tipper and another mazda pickup however i am currently looking to buy a landrover utility truck (ex western power) , this is due to most of out work being off road and often in not such nice conditions .

 

Personally if you are looking for a standard 3.5ton tipper then i would get an iveco tipper , they are pretty much bullet proof ! . once you have your self established and know the kind of work that you are regularly bringing in then maybe look at a sepecific type of vehicle ie - if most of your jobs are small and of road then a landy tipper would be an idea or if most of your work is roadside then maybe an iveco tipper with chassis mounted tool box would be a better option . But for now keep it simple and relatively low cost . There are many a person that borrow a shed load of money to set up their own tree firm they buy a sparkeling new trasit and a new timberwolf 150 , they get it signwritten and think that this will bring in work !!!!! 12 months later you see their kit on fleabay as they have gone bust !!!!

 

anyway i hope the above ramblings may help a little

 

cheers Dave

[Adrian cook]

Transit tipper. Cheep to buy cheep to repair and there's a reason why so many are around! It will get dented and scratched so don't go mad with the price just get a tidy looking vehicle that will do you for a couple of years because situations may change and you don't want to loose too much money. You will ALWAYS be able to sell a tranny tipper to upgrade! Plywood sides are fine if you build it nicely with care and paint it afterwards. sure you'll get ribbed by people in the trade but the your clients aslong as it looks tidy then they won't know any difference. Sure ally chip boxes with tool lockers look good and yes all my vehicles are custom built but it takes time to get to that stage and is only worth the investment when your building in on a new truck that'll last for the forseable future. Of course if moneys no object then buy a new mog, transit and a 110 tipper then it's all covered

[BarneyH]

lol if only money was no object... thanks guys, yous have given me perspective...

[elfinwood saws]

horse and cart?