best 3.5 tonne with big payload?

[aspenarb]

Land rover mini artic with a fifth wheel coupling is the ultimate for towing on a car license.

1 ton allowed on the neck and a permissible 3.5 on the trailer wheels , A trailer for timber with small crane and one tipping bin for chip. No snaking about, coupled brakes and perfect road manners. The nuts.

 

Bob

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=154751&stc=1&d=1398703209

[fergusonforestry]

heres a pic o a real un

[skyhuck]

heres a pic o a real un

 

Looks ideal for our tight streets and narrow drives

[gensetsteve]

That set up makes lots of sense you could have a trailer half the length and still get 3 tonne of wood on easily.

[Kenty]

Another option I have been using is convincing customers to keep wood chip & some of the logs generated. You have to really sell it some but it is working. It's about time chip wasn't seen as a waste product.

[difflock]

Land rover mini artic with a fifth wheel coupling is the ultimate for towing on a car license.

1 ton allowed on the neck and a permissible 3.5 on the trailer wheels , A trailer for timber with small crane and one tipping bin for chip. No snaking about, coupled brakes and perfect road manners. The nuts.

 

Bob

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=154751&stc=1&d=1398703209

 

cough cough

Aspenberg, a pre 1997 car licence.

I seriously looked at tendering for sommat similar based on an Iveco "tractor" unit, Iveco were briefly producing them for UK sale but I suspect poor sales killed that idea off.

I tought dey were plumb cute!

Anyway since it was possible to buy an "off the shelf" 7500kg chassis with a beavertail body, and 4000kg/4100kg payload.

That was the option I went for.

Going in the paper next week!

[josharb87]

Going astray from the original topic, iveco 65 something towing beaver tail plant trailer, air brakes, hydraulic tail, 11t payload

 

 

 

sorry for the upside-down pic

[steve@crown]

Mitsubishi Fuso....brilliant truck.....very strong, with a turning circle of a black cab!

[Paul Jenks]

Going astray from the original topic, iveco 65 something towing beaver tail plant trailer, air brakes, hydraulic tail, 11t payload

 

 

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sorry for the upside-down pic

 

Must be an Australian import

[aspenarb]

Looks ideal for our tight streets and narrow drives

 

The draw bar trailers are bound up before you get to ninety degrees whereas the artic types can really bend right round. If I can get our artic between two tight gate posts in a residential area the mini artics will find it a breeze.

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/65296-bit-tight.html

 

Bob