Rupe
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Rain!! Supposed to be hedge trimming but hate it on a good day so in the rain its worse. Plus I want to hang around as my tipper is being put on the new truck today.
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Straight bars and thumbshifters!! I remember the days! We used to cut an inch and a half off each end of the bars for commuting in london traffic in '87 pre tree work.
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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!
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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.
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I'll put the old one on ebay once the tipper is off. I can photo it then and that's better than havign to tell everyone that the tipper is not included. I was also going to advertise it on the ldv owners forum but it seems to be off line!
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Yeah not sure what to do about that yet. I'm thinking of leaving it unlocked, there won't be any valuables in there overnight anyway so no point in getting it wrecked for nothing, they might as well look inside and steal a shovel if they want to. The industrial estate its on is locked at night and has security and cameras and there is also plenty of other vans to break into, so far I've had no trouble there (three years) but I have been lucky I think.
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Yes lesson learned I think. At least the steel box will weight the same in a few years time so I know where i am with it.
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So far all I've done is put a new wooden base on the tool box and bolted it onto the new LDV chassis. The tipper gets put on next week. So far so good!!!
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So the components are all there for the new truck.
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Pretty rough!! But it went well. I'm sad to see it go, its been nearly 6 years! Aanyway I removed the chip box and it was way heavier than I had imagined. It got put on bit by bit and I never knew what it weighed. I unbolted everything but couldn't lift it off, I just tipped it out the back. It was made of plywood over steel frame and the wood must have absorbed a lot of water it was very heavy. The rear bed is now a inch or more higher than it was! The tipper is coming off next week and then I may break it for parts of just send it the scrapyard!
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After careful calculations of weights and measurements I've finally started to build the new truck. The Tax ran out on the old one yesterday and it aint ever going to pass another MOT which runs out in a few weeks. The aim of the project is simple enough, build a better truck but use my old aluminium tip bed and add some tool storage. I bought the tool box a while ago and that is what started the project. Next I needed an extra LWB LDV in reasonable condition and cheap! Last week I picked up one from Essex with a 12foot dropside rear body on it, it was like driving a train! Heres a pic of the old truck on its last day at work!
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Any photos of the rig for sale??
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If you had know he was coming you could put it round a mates house!
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Sack the groundie!! He should have put someone elses address on the form!!
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1.5 ton chipper OR a load might be better!
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I had thought of sliding doors and fillign form the side but have never needed to so its overcomplicating. turnign the chipper 90 degrees to the back will cover most situations. Gas struts are again a good idea but we dicussed before that you would have to remove nay ladders on top every time you wanted to use them. My current think is to have a high enough box for woodchip to go into but then put some storage space in the top corner at the fron end so that this area can't be filled with chip. That way you carry only as much as you would with a lower roof and so you don't overload.
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Sorry I removed my post so yours now makes little sense. I thought it was derailing the thread so I'll start again on the chip box thread I started, but not until its finished will I know the final cost but it is mounting up!
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You've been a great help this evening mate thanks!
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Good points!! The LDV I bought came from a builder and I'd rather that than buying from a tree bloke! Theres a cabstar round these parts that belongs to a quarry and is used for deliver loads of cotswold stone for walling, that should never be sold on to anybody, also you would never buy from a tarmac/flat roofing company either. I guess many trades wreck stuff. Arbs are no different, I know I try to look after vehicles but have done plenty of overloading in the past.
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Legally the overhang can be 66% (two thirds) of the wheel base so no problem as long as it tips ok without snappign the back off, and as mentioned before the rear axle isn't overloaded. Still got some maths (guesswork) to do!
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You spotted that quickly! Theres more tipper behind the back wheels than in front! I never really noticed until now looking through old photos to see what other truck look like. You can't but a LWB LDV crew cab tipper. It came as a dropside and he didn't measure it, just took the dropside off and bolted the tipper on and never though twice about it. I'm feeling better about my project now!
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How many miles has this new LDV done?
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Peter, check the overhang on this baby! Its a tipper from an extra LWB crew cab LDV bolted onto and standard LWB Crew cab. it belonged to a friend and whent for years no worries. Drove like a pig of course but it went, no power steering if I remember correctly. Mine won't be as bad as this.
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Why do we accept that its ok for arborists to abuse everything? Its only woodchip and logs going in it, not as destructive as many builders materials can be.
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My old one cost 2k in 2002 with 60k miles on it and M reg so about seven years old at the time. Now its (over)due to retire but still has only 102k miles on it. Most expensive MOT was 400 quid, twice, other MOT's were less than that, no other major expenses, no speeding tickets, no good if your late getting somewhere.
