Hiab transit on ebay

[Le Sanglier]

Won't carry diddly. Forget about it, handy if you're an ornamental stonemason, (placing gravestones) otherwise pointless.

[wills-mill]

I had an older one with a superb Atlas crane (got pinched, photos here somewhere) http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/stolen-equipment/13586-distinctive-transit-gone-yard-damage-west-sussex-31st-jan.html

 

With a 14 ft (maybe 12) dropside body with a steel and tropical hardwood floor it weighed 2800kg empty. One lift of the crane and you were overloaded with no problems at all, it was a great bit of kit for delivering and collecting timber, and the crane would haul a full bulk bag of logs around at full stretch (again about 14ft) with no issues.

 

As for front axle weight, it did destroy a front wheel bearing on the slip road between the M40 and M25.... quite exciting.