The D.I.Y arb truck chip body thread

[padman]

Paint it. Itll look 100% better

 

Have done and agree

[treequip]

No need for ally welding

 

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[waz77]

Alli planking is from J Adams at Scissett, you don't need to weld the alli, just the steel sub frame, everything else slots together and is riveted or bolted

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Alli planking is from J Adams at Scissett, you don't need to weld the alli, just the steel sub frame, everything else slots together and is riveted or bolted

 

 

Ahh I see. I didn't really think about it. Just saw some that had welded alli and assumed I would have to learn yet another skill to add to the long list us arborists seem to have haha. Not doing it for a while as its money and time but just good to know how to go about things and be prepared.

Thanks for the help mate

[steve7962]

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Here's the old truck, Ali sheet 3mm riveted to 3mmX40mmX40mm steel box, with 20mmX20mm box between each frame at each end. cost maybe £280 if my memory serves me right. And some ply as a bulkhead that was tied up when chipping, lowered when not.

[karl]

Have done and agree

 

Tidy!!!!

[Robert_S]

i built this for one job where i needed to go across some grass and take the chip away, the gap to get in was too wide for the unimog. worked ok and carried a surprising amount of chip when i had to hand ball it out.

[Vespasian]

i built this for one job where i needed to go across some grass and take the chip away, the gap to get in was too wide for the unimog. worked ok and carried a surprising amount of chip when i had to hand ball it out.

 

for one job!!!...

you sayin you don't intend using it after the jobs finished?....

 

If it ain't eatin nothin, might as well keep it..

[Robert_S]

Yes one job, it took a morning to build, it now lies in the yard for use on another job one day

[hamdogg]

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Here's the old truck, Ali sheet 3mm riveted to 3mmX40mmX40mm steel box, with 20mmX20mm box between each frame at each end. cost maybe £280 if my memory serves me right. And some ply as a bulkhead that was tied up when chipping, lowered when not.

 

 

Yeah a good cheap way of building chip body's!! Ten times better than sheets of ply