Are pick up tippers worth the extra £££?

[farmer_ben]

I nearly bought a l200 club cab tipper 2 yrs ago but deal fell through, now got a standard 59 l200 club cab. Cant helping thinking a tipper would be a lot less work when un loading logs, but is the 2k rough price of a tipper conversion worth it? I can unload my truck in less then 2 mins by hand, so the tipper wont save me much time. If im being honest I think the tipper element for me would just make my firewood business loo that bit more professional (?!).

 

Any views would be greatly welcome, thanks

[gensetsteve]

We use a hilux with 2 cu metre capacity it would take me alot longer to unload by hand than 2 minutes. By not offering stacking we can do 2 more deliveries a day. We have used a trailer in the past but found it scuffed up gravel drives and was a pain to push in snow and ice. The battery would go flat at just the wrong time. Our hilux charges its own battery, goes anywhere, drops a nice neat pile due to height of body, The oil is warmed by the exhaust so no slow drops either.

[daveindales]

Iv'e been thinking about getting one for years now to help unloading chip. Use loadhandler at the moment and it's pretty good. They do come up for sale a bit. There's one on Orbitkey vans website at the moment, but it's white and I hate white

[farmer_ben]

We use a hilux with 2 cu metre capacity it would take me alot longer to unload by hand than 2 minutes. By not offering stacking we can do 2 more deliveries a day. We have used a trailer in the past but found it scuffed up gravel drives and was a pain to push in snow and ice. The battery would go flat at just the wrong time. Our hilux charges its own battery, goes anywhere, drops a nice neat pile due to height of body, The oil is warmed by the exhaust so no slow drops either.

 

Well when i say by hand, I really mean when i open the tail gate a 1/4th of the load falls out, i then get in the buck and push the rest out with my feet...doesnt take long at all tbh.

[Hodge]

When you have a tipper you will not go back, they are great.

 

 

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[farmer_ben]

Iv'e been thinking about getting one for years now to help unloading chip. Use loadhandler at the moment and it's pretty good. They do come up for sale a bit. There's one on Orbitkey vans website at the moment, but it's white and I hate white

 

Just been on there website and had a look, that hilux looks smart imo. It was them who let me down with the l200 tipper. They buy the trucks and get a local company close to them to make the tippers, they do a good job imo.

[Able Fella]

I unload by hand, at the moment we don't have the volume of deliveries for me to warrant converting to a tipper, I suppose when you come to sell your truck it would be worth more money anyway so probably an investment.

[R5log]

Unloading by hand is a mugs game and looks unprofessional

[Billy]

For what you can fit in a pick up logs wise a tipper isn't really necessary and adds weight which takes away from the already relatively low payload

 

 

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[richardwale]

Unloading by hand is a mugs game is it? And you are? We all have to start somewhere so button it. Mr uk log dealer of the year, not.