New LDV Chip truck

[High Scale]

Ha,ha, there's a LDV owners forum?

 

I gotta get on there.

[ukminch]

I'd leave it open, there are some really thick thieves about as I've had the misfortune to gather other the years. I was thinking more about on site during the day when it's parked at the front of a house and your out back.....

 

A few of the guys that I've subbed work to over the years have had toolchests in between the chassis rails so you have to lift the back to get in, don't know how practical it would be.

 

Probably more practical than my toy tipper, i reckon it will be ideal for little jobs and my chipper is only small anyway:

[Rupe]

Ha,ha, there's a LDV owners forum?

 

I gotta get on there.

 

Yes, sadder than arbtalk!!

 

http://www.ldv-sherpa.co.uk

 

but it seems to be offline. I went on there to find out about wheelbase lengths, they were failry useless, I found it out for myself in the end. there are some good pics of conversion that folk have done, mostly car transporters and stealth campers. Its a nerd fest for sure.

[Rupe]

I was thinking more about on site during the day when it's parked at the front of a house and your out back.....

 

:

 

Well that would annoy me!! We'll probly have to leave it locked or take all the gear round the back and leave it open, but that kind of defeats the object of having dry tool storage.

 

Never had problems before though when using my car for tool carrying but I'm lucky in that most of my customers have electronic gates and front drives at least a quarter mile long!

 

I also do council work though and that evens the balance!

[ukminch]

A mate of mine works for gristlewood and toms in london and he was telling me about how they've stolen and attempted to steal kit over the years. Quite scary really, but lets not sidetrack this thread to another thieving scum one.

[Charlieh]

A mate of mine works for gristlewood and toms in london and he was telling me about how they've stolen and attempted to steal kit over the years.

 

er does that need re-wording or is your mate a tea leaf?

[ukminch]

Erm yer it does when you read it back, should be how they've had kit stolen, and nearly stolen.

[Rupe]

So, things are coming on well, I had miscalcualted and measured the wrong bit so in the end there is a lot more of the overhang being removed than I had thought which is a good thing. There is about 8 inches to come off the rear because the tipper chassis is shorter than actual tipper bed which is what I was measurign!! Good thing I'm leavign this bit to proffessionals!

 

Some pics.

The finger line in the dirt is roughly where the chassis is being cut off, super acurate engineerign at its best.

[Rupe]

More pics

[Rupe]

They had to cut four of the old brackets off the old truck chassis. These will be used to fix the tipper down in each corner usign the existing corner brackets on the tipper frame, then they will ignore the rest of the brackets on the tipper and make new ones that fit on the remaining brackets on the new truck and just weld them onto the tipper.