Tipping trailer sides

[Ashes_Firewood]

Hi just got a bit of a tractor tipping trailer project. It's got no sides or rear door but the chassis is good and it tips well.

 

How much is it likely to cost me to get some metal drop down sides and a rear door made up - just to give me an idea what to expect not going to hold anyone to it! I will obviously be in touch with a local fabricator at some point but thought someone on here might have already done the same thing themselves.

 

It's a 10 ft x 6 ft trailer.

 

And just on the off chance someone can recommend me a fabricator to try in South Lakes area of Cumbria

[LeeGray]

Depends on the spec of steel used, makes a huge difference on cost. Think you'd be looking at £150 + stock. I'd be tempted to get the framework at least out of the heaviest stock you can.

[CallumA]

Will you be taking the sides off and on?? If so you want to keep the weight down! do you want a steel frame and put timber in the frame?

[Ashes_Firewood]

Won't really be taking them off very often if at all, just opening them to load things in and out of. If I needed to take them off it wouldn't matter if they were a 2 man lift for the amount of times that I'd be wanting to do it.

 

Was thinking steel box section frame with steel sheet infill panels rather than wood panels.

 

e.g.

 

[agrimog]

go for as good a build as you can get, the sides stop the bed twisting when its tipped with an uneven load, been there, buggered that....lol

[tommytopsoil]

Daleside Welding, Kirkby Lonsdale

John Metcalfe, Crook

 

Probably your best bets. Whereabouts South Lakes are you?

[Hodge]

Daleside Welding, Kirkby Lonsdale

 

John Metcalfe, Crook

 

 

 

Probably your best bets. Whereabouts South Lakes are you?

 

 

John Metcalf is the man, he looks after my tractors and he is brilliant! He's only at crook hall so not far away for you mate.

 

 

Hodge

[Ashes_Firewood]

I've heard of John Metcalfe but don't know him. He sounds like he could be the man then, nice and handy for me like you say Hodge. Do you have a number for him?

 

I'm near Grange, Tommy

 

 

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