Our new truck

[treebloke]

After years of moving our plant around behind the Unimog and hiring transporters we have now bought our own tilt slide. It will carry the Valtra with the mulcher, we can get the site master on it and it has a decent crane. Its a 18 tonne Merc with tilt slide, we have had the crane fitted for timber grab and await the bed being converted to accept bolsters for carrying timber.

 

We will be having a chip box made so it can also carry chip from time to time and are about to purchase a site welfare unit for when we do site clearance so the lads have some where a bit more spacious than the cab when the weathers bad.

 

Tilt slide.jpg

[harvey b davison]

I like the look of that.

[Arbtech Tree Services]

Bob,

 

I'm guessing you picked it up at a good price, but with the plans for bolstered flat-bed, chip box and welfare unit would a hook lift have been a better bet?

 

There's a cracking one locally which i always look at, it's got a huge crane on the front and has flat and bin beds for the back, it's an eight legger mind!

 

I still rue the day i let my Scania go to Archer's in Staffordshire for conversion. It was a 26T 6x2 rear lift on air with 8m bed, 14t/m triple extension crane and 4 over 4 box. Beautiful to drive and it was my baby but hey, toys come and go, we just move on to the next one!

 

I see it's already resprayed in company colours

 

Look forward to pictures of the different backs.

 

Regards,

 

Steve.

[D A Tree Surgeons]

After years of moving our plant around behind the Unimog and hiring transporters we have now bought our own tilt slide. It will carry the Valtra with the mulcher, we can get the site master on it and it has a decent crane. Its a 18 tonne Merc with tilt slide, we have had the crane fitted for timber grab and await the bed being converted to accept bolsters for carrying timber.

 

We will be having a chip box made so it can also carry chip from time to time and are about to purchase a site welfare unit for when we do site clearance so the lads have some where a bit more spacious than the cab when the weathers bad.

 

Tilt slide.jpg

Nice Set up :thumbup:

[treequip]

That would also be a useful thing for moving other things as well, just for example a competition grade land rover with several winches perhaps???

[difflock]

Very tidy looking set-up, but as per someone above, how are you intending to load/unload the welfare unit, chip box etc.

A retro-chic iron wheeled Gypsy Caravan welfare unit perhaps ?

Or does the crane have sufficient reach and capacity?

Neat idea the pins for log carrying though.

Regardless it "looks" just right.

marcus

[Stephen Blair]

Nice 1!

[treequip]

For the chip box, it will lift on with the hiab. If you side hinge it off the flat the hiab will tip it but you might need to brace the slide first.

 

For the welfare unit just lift it on or off with the hiab.

[gensetsteve]

Looks a good tool. I would go with the bolster idea and get them over made proper job. If you need to pick up rings and waste may be worth getting a roro skip and pulling it up on the tilt body with crane or winch. Or getting some midi skips you can load and unload with crane.

[predator]

is it the 1820 road chassis or tipper chassis as the road chassis version was more flexable/wooly like to drive and suffered spring eye bushes inside door handles and clutch,s as they did,nt like pulling away even empty from first to second as though merc had,nt quite got the gearing right and the engine was a om366 engine same as the smaller truck but merc used it in a bigger truck so you had to wind it up so to speak to get it rolling we had nine of them and wished we had gone for the tipper chassis version please dont take this post as personel thing its not ment to be like that services where every 30.000 kmh and every third service diffs/gearbox oils changed but still looks a good setup >> ps rear slack adjusters for the back brakes where a pain to do too lol but all trucks have there faults