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If you dispense with the chip box and tow a high sided 3.5 ton trailer (2t + payload) you have a 'small' rig which complies with VOSA regs when well loaded.

 

Bugger, Ben beat me to it.

 

I've been thinking of doing it for years...

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Turntable chipper mounted on the back with its own engine. Then tow a big tipping trailer. Vehicle engines aren't really optimised for donkey work.

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If this idea catches on then it won't matter when all the transit tippers get half inched by naughty criminals cos you won't be able to give them away to the arb trade.

 

Mind you, the cost of 3.5 ton tipping trailers will rise rapidly.

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It actually makes a lot of sense, you could have a nice toolbox on your tranny and a turntable chipper and never be overloaded, and your trailer will legally hold way more chip...

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SWB twin rear wheel daily with the 3l engine would be better than a transit. Would have to downrate it from 5.5 t though which isn't as easy as you'd think it would be.

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How would the ever shrinking tranny engine and dual mass flywheel cope with that lot I wonder?

 

Hi I have no experiance of these,but how about a dodge ram diesel take the body off put chipper on a turntable and with the cummins at 5.9 and 300 odd hp

would run it no problem then put tipper trailer on and it still would nt know it had it.Just a thought.

Chris

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Hi I have no experiance of these,but how about a dodge ram diesel take the body off put chipper on a turntable and with the cummins at 5.9 and 300 odd hp

 

would run it no problem then put tipper trailer on and it still would nt know it had it.Just a thought.

 

Chris

 

 

That would be a fair thing

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Hi I have no experiance of these,but how about a dodge ram diesel take the body off put chipper on a turntable and with the cummins at 5.9 and 300 odd hp

 

would run it no problem then put tipper trailer on and it still would nt know it had it.Just a thought.

 

Chris

 

 

Now you're talking!!

 

The world was a much better place when we over-engineered everything :)

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