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Nearly finished building this, all the framework came from my scrap bin, the cladding is dibond from site hordings, cost me 20 quid a sheet and when I peel off the plastic it'll be new, clean white underneath👌👌 

It's interchangeable between the trailer and my defender tipper. It can be forked on and off or easy to manhandle with 2 people which is important as I don't need it 75 percent of the time. 

The door is to go over the van vault on the defender.  The roof will get dibond on it and my 'waffle boards' on the side where the ladder doesn't go so I can stand on them, or use them on site. 

Total cost is 100 for the dibond, about 50 for the rivets, mastic, hinges and consumables. A decent ply 1 would cost that or more these days and not be anywhere near as long lived👌

Taken about 2 long days to do, mainly as and when I had time. I think I could do another 1 in 2 steady days now I've a little bit of experience.👍👍

 

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On 24/10/2022 at 22:31, Gardenscape said:

Built this for my new extra cab Hilux over the weekend. The ally was around £950! Was quoted £1800 for something similar, so decided to make it myself. Quite proud of it actually. I'm looking to add an angled roof section to the front of the chipbox to reduce chip flying out

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Neat truck 

Get yourself a loadhandler unloader and will be a dream to unload 

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