Transit for arb work

[kentjames]

That looks a superb set up. What was the costs involved for the lift and ally body?

 

Any idea of the load / weight capacity?

[Sussex Groundie]

This was in 2000

 

1997 Transit chassis cab 44,000 miles £8500.00

Respray to white from BT Grey 500.00

Ali body & 4 ram tipper 2000.00

Del Tail Lift 1000.00

 

Tipper would tip 1.5 tons,

Tail lift would lift 500kgs (Westwood 1600) Mower/Collector Roller

 

Have carried 2 pallets of turf, 72 to a pallet so couple of tons.

 

Had 180 litre Hornbeam full size trees 12-15ft tall made the tail lift cough

[kentjames]

Hmm, food for thought there, thanks for posting

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Hi guy's I've bought a Transit twin wheel 3.5 tipper for tree work I'd like to put a chipper body on the back at the moment it's got a steel body complete with a tail lift my question is should i remove the dropsides and fabricate a new arb body and keep the tail lift or should i sell or swop the body and start again ? my mate has already doubled the number of leaf spring's on the back so it carry's a lot more weight which do you lad's think is the cheapest option and could all the transit owners put some photo's up of their truck's to give me an idea on how to go about converting my tranny !! thank's in advance

 

I bought a Transit with steel tipper body. Took it to these guys, they took off the steel and built an ally body to my exact spec.

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[Graham 777]

Any more photo's of preferably "home made" transit high sides ? thank's to all contributer's so far !

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here's our home made chip box.

lifts on/off in one piece when not required, lights just unplug from headboard.

sides are 1/4 " exterior ply, frame consists of box section & plate.

think it cost us £350.00 all in to build and best thing is it lifts off in seconds.

hope u get some inspiration

[Phil71]

Here's mine, full ally body, cost £3000

[18 stoner]

Here's mine, full ally body, cost £3000

 

That looks very nice and tidy.

 

How much does it weigh?

[Old Mill Tree Care]

here's our home made chip box.

lifts on/off in one piece when not required, lights just unplug from headboard.

sides are 1/4 " exterior ply, frame consists of box section & plate.

think it cost us £350.00 all in to build and best thing is it lifts off in seconds.

hope u get some inspiration

 

PLease can you show us the photo towing both chippers at the same time.

[leedeerman]

Here's mine, full ally body, cost £3000

 

That's really nice, was that price including tipping gear? Who built it for you?