Views on best 4x4 for delivering ton bags of logs

[Daniel Jiggins]

How are getting the bags in in the first place

 

 

Tractor with loader

[farmer_ben]

How much weight is there likely to be in 3 x tonne bags full of logs?

Just make sure you dont go over your weight limits!

 

You may also want to consider, if you havent already, the need for covering the tops of the bags with something like a cargo net otherwise you are more likely to get pulled over!

 

Even if you arent legally overloaded, driving around with what looks like larger loads with tail gate down is more likely to look dodgy to the authorities

 

I weighed a few 0.6cube bags last year full of bone dry ash, averaged out at 260kgs each.

[mendiplogs]

I weighed a few 0.6cube bags last year full of bone dry ash, averaged out at 260kgs each.

 

Hi all how about 130 Land Rover single cab you will get 3 bags but The turning circle of a supertanker thanks John

[dougharding]

Cheers all, so great in put at the moment.

 

I'm loading with tractor with loading forks so no issue with putting them on the truck or trailer.

 

If I I do barrow bags I I can do 9 bags on there side stacked 3 high by 3wide at a push with strapping down, ( but I don't like doing this, and it has to be a dark night)

 

I worked it out that 3 barrow bags = 1 ton builders bag.

 

I have been tempted to try a landy, but they look like a old been can and you wouldn't really wanna go done south or away on your holls it. ( I can see the mrs face now if I suggested that.)

[Mike H]

Slight deviation..... but I was amazed to learn that my landrover 110 is limited to 50mph on normal roads, rather than 60mph, because of its weight capacity, irrespective of any load in the back. I suspect many other 4x4's are also restricted. The number of times I have carefully kept to 60 whilst being followed by the law.....

[Mike H]

Arrr.... Seems speed limits are more complicated than I thought.

 

The key seems to be that if the vehicle is a dual purpose, then normal speed restrictions apply. Here is the legislation:

 

A dual purpose vehicle is defined in regulation 3, Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986:

 

 

'A vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description, being a vehicle of which the unladen weight does not exceed 2040 kg, and which either—

(i)

is so constructed or adapted that the driving power of the engine is, or by the appropriate use of the controls of the vehicle can be, transmitted to all the wheels of the vehicle; or

 

(ii)

satisfies the following conditions as to construction, namely—

(a)

the vehicle must be permanently fitted with a rigid roof, with or without a sliding panel;

(b)

the area of the vehicle to the rear of the driver's seat must—

(i)

be permanently fitted with at least one row of transverse seats (fixed or folding) for two or more passengers and those seats must be properly sprung or cushioned and provided with upholstered back-rests, attached either to the seats or to a side or the floor of the vehicle; and

(ii)

be lit on each side and at the rear by a window or windows of glass or other transparent material having an area or aggregate area of not less than 1850 square centimetres on each side and not less than 770 square centimetres at the rear; and

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the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the row of transverse seats satisfying the requirements specified in head (i) of sub-paragraph (b) (or, if there is more than one such row of seats, the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the back-rests of the rearmost such row) must, when the seats are ready for use, be not less than one-third of the distance between the rearmost part of the steering wheel and the rearmost part of the floor of the vehicle.'

 

 

As long as their unladen weight is under 2040kg, Landrovers usually comply with part (i) - four wheel drive, and so would not be limited by schedule 6, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 - Speed limits for certain classes of vehicle, unless they were adapted to carry more than 8 passengers.

 

Moral:

Best 4x4 to get should have an unladen weight below 2040kg or you may be asking for complications regarding speed limits.

[Logsnstuff]

read on fb the other day someone got done for speeding on the A9 for doing 60 in their berlingo because also limited to 50.

[Mike H]

Logsnstuff - Its crazy.......

 

".....The Citroen Berlingo was a van before it was a car, therefore it is not a car-derived van and must comply with the same speed limits as for larger vans."

Car Derived Vans | SSRP

[andrew aas]

not 4x4 but holds 2.2 cbm level with cage on ebay at the momentmazda b2500 tipper log truck landscape gardener | eBay

[Daniel Jiggins]

My setup....