Our new truck

[aspenarb]

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.

 

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Nice truck, load bed is nice and low so you wont be dodging height restrictions all over the place. You will probably end up putting a full time driver on that, the amount of extra work that will come your way when other`s realise you can move kit and sticks is unbelievable.

 

Bob

[gensetsteve]

Due to cost of fuel and lack of hardwood etc 8 wheelers are laying up everywhere with bolsters on that I think you will find plenty of work.

[treebloke]

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.

 

Spot on

[treebloke]

Or getting some midi skips you can load and unload with crane.

 

Just got one off ebay and now looking for a few more!

[treebloke]

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

 

TBH I don't know which chassis it has but I do know the steering lock is hopeless, its like trying to turn an ocean liner, we have screwed the stops in as far as they will go but its not good at turning. It came with a bogey for lifting vehicles which has no use for us at the moment.

[treebloke]

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???

 

A bit like this you mean

 

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Fortunately the company see it as advertisng and let me borrow the kit, I have a word with the company secretary and she ok's it with the boss, good job I am married to the co secretary and she is married to the boss.

[treequip]

A bit like this you mean

 

Thug on beavertail.jpg

 

Fortunately the company see it as advertisng and let me borrow the kit, I have a word with the company secretary and she ok's it with the boss, good job I am married to the co secretary and she is married to the boss.

 

The new truck has room for 2 for when you break one:thumbup1:

[Old Mill Tree Care]

A welfare unit means staff down time sitting on chairs.

I recommend no welfare unit an remove the windows from the lorry to discourage sitting down.

 

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[treebloke]

A welfare unit means staff down time sitting on chairs.

I recommend no welfare unit an remove the windows from the lorry to discourage sitting down.

 

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Hahaha!

 

 

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Hey, would you like a job:thumbup:

[Stephen Blair]

Get the heaters and radio disconnected aswell!!