Rupe
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Definatly not going to spend on any aluminium but soem of the donor trucks I've been looking at buying (dropsiders) have had nice aluminium dropside panels that could be re used. My current ldv has a nice alu tipper bed and horrible steel frame and plywood chip box that has served well but is very tatty now. The 5.5t iveco thing is all good and well but I just don't need it. For what I do (hardly ever take chips anywhere anyway) I just need something to chip into and be almost legal with a ton in it. Agian the project has these parameters- CHEAP- strong enough, smart enough and useful. If I can build an arb truck ready to go to work that weighs less than the book weight of a crewcab and steel tipper (1300kgs payload) then I'll be happpy. This has just come up for sale and might do, Cant do anything with the steel side panels though!
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I weighed the roller shutter tool box today on a weighbridge. It was on my trailer at the time and the total was 520 kgs. The book weight of my trailer is 397 so the tool box must weigh 123kgs. Thats a good start, if a crew cab weighs 150kgs more than the standard cab then the tool box is lighter so a few kgs saved already.
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Remember there is vat on all items if you are buying for employees. Its only when you buy boots/helmet for yourself that vat is exempt.
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Trousers are specific to our industry but "workboots" is a more general thing that everybody needs for work, so were made vat exempt a long time ago. I think. Same with helmets I guess.
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I was being sarcastic, obvioulsy chip box and staff are gonna weigh more than that. but if your not usign a factory fitted steel tipper then there are weight savings to be made and still get a truck that "might" carry a ton.
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I'm hoping that an XLWB will mean the load is further forward than on a LWB with too big a chip box hanging off the back?
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My lowering kit would put the ldv overweight on its own! I'm on a mission though, a strong yet light(ish) tipper chip box must be feasable, without spending more than the truck is worth on specialist aluminium custom builds. I will start a new "truck build project" thread once I have bought the chassis truck, I have the roller shutter box (not weighed it yet) and the chip box is under construction already.
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Tuna or swordfish steaks are easy, just a quick fry on each side. Real tuna tastes lovely, not like the the stuff in tins.
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I agree its best not to know. I weighed mine once when loaded - 4200 kgs!! Never gonna weigh it again! Anyway I'm building a new truck from chassis using a lightweight tipper/box and now I know what the reality is of how little room there is to play with. Next job is to weigh my current truck again empty, then again after the old chip box and soem surplus weight is removed to see how much that all weighed then try and build the new chip box for less, enough less to add a rolloer shutter tool box and still come under the factory weight of a crew cab and steel tipper. Thats my aim as I know a few companies that run crew cabs with steel tippers and they manage somehow.
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Sure, if the chip box and tools and staff are only 250kgs! I'm hoping to save enough weight by using an aluminium tipper and relativley leightweigh chip box and roller shutter toool box to make up a truck with equivlent payload to the standard crew cab tipper.
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I'm looking at buyign a 90 model, not seen any 120hp LDV's except for ambulances!
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Sorry no different!! I quoted weights above for the 75hp model, for the 90 version you lose 6kgs of payload. The crew cab chassis has a payload of 1774gs then take off 480 if it has a steel tipper.
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If you open the pdf in the link in my first post and go to the last page you should be able to magnify it to see the detail. printed out its unreadable, I've enlarged it a bit I'll try some more.
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If we ignore the first colunm which is for SWB trucks that only have a GVW of 3.1t. Looking at the other figures we can see that a crew cab weighs 150Kgs more than its single cab equivelent. (i.e. it has 150 less payload availability) And a factory fitted steel tipper weighs 470 Kgs. A crew cab and steel tipper has a payload of 1301 kgs before a chip box and tools are added! I'm looking at getting and XLWB chassis cab and adding my aluminium tipper and roller shutter tool box to it. Accordign to the figures above it starts with a payload of 1909kgs, so if I can build the back stuff for less than 600 then I can still carry about 1000kgs of chips! Not going to be easy!
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Heres the weights chart.
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Since I've been looking to get a new(er) LDV chassis that I can put my existing tipper onto, I've got a bit confused about different specs of trucks, different wheelbases etc. I got the info I needed eventualy so I knoiw what I'm after now, but I found this Convoy brochure that LDV owners might find interesting. http://adamsmorey.com/Brochures/TippersDropsides.pdf Apart from all the phots of what an LDV looks like before it been used by an arb company for a few years there is some interestign stuff on weights and payloads, cab v crew cab etc.
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I'm well away with srt in general, just figured rads is a bit lame due to taking in slack that you dont need to. Except the working on your way up, that bit makes sense. If you descend any distance on it then you lose the use of the footloop anyway as it stays on the ascender. So then you have to pull the excess rope three times to get you back to where you were. And if your comign down a long way to descend out of the tree then you need a lot of rope. If the original line is attached at the base of the tree then you would need a rope up to four times the height of the tree to enabe you to descend from TIP to ground, no??
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Sure I have used the rads system and it was fine as you described, single line and working on the way up, and descending. I just feel that the footloop misses out the point that the rads is meant to be a 3:1 and if using a footloop for effiviency then the normal frog system on srt is better. I would use rads for getting friends up a tree who don't climb. I will however try it one day with the footloop and I'll see what happens.
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Ok, I see what you mean about the normal system re: two foot ascenders clashing with each other. I havn't tried anything like that so I'll keep my nose out. BUT. With the rads, its supposed to be inefficient in a way, its a 3:1 easy pull but slow. If you gonna just stand in the footloop then you don't need all the rest, use a chest ascender and go quickly like SRT is meant to be. Once you stand in the footloop you still have 3 times more slack to pull through than necessary. I still think that the system as shown (with footloop) is not how rads is supposed to be used and its not the frog system either, kind of neither one thing nor t'other.
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I dont see the point of the RADS system as its been described here. I think something is wrong. Rads is supposed to be a 3:1 advantage system but as described here its not. There is no need for the footloop on the handled ascender. You pull on the standign part of the rope and it give you a 3:1 pull and the belay device takes in the slack automatically and allows you to branch walk or descend and therefore work the tree during ascent which you cant do on a true SRT system. Standing in the footloop means your not usign the 3:1 part of the system so its a bit pointless, you'd be better off using a standard srt set up and just going on straight up the rope. ANother way of using the RAds sytem is to have a pantin on the standing part of the rope and use that to stand on. The u-tube clip is really pointless too, as left and right cmi foot ascenders have been around for ever and now there is a right foot pantin aswell. I think there is too much overcomplicatign going on.
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Oh yes, I believe they do. Surely you remember woodstock? Glastonbury has been running since then if not longer.
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MB- Bruce springsteen played there this year for th efirst time in his career. Heres the full ine up of artists Glastonbury Festivals - Line Up Click "open" on the left to see the full line up
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If they insure you they will ask those questions in the even of an accident to try and not pay out so its probably best to answer them all before gettign the cover.
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I once did some work for the MOD on salisbury plane. Tree was next to a military only road. At the end of the day we got the brush out to sweep up the road, the mod guy with said don't worry about that and he got on the radio and called an airstrike except no napalm just a big unimog with brush attached to front came over the hill 5 minutes later and swept the road for us. This thing only exist to sweep roads, usually mud from where tanks have gone over highways but it was good to watch and not sweep up after us for a change. BTW I had never even seen or heard of a blower in those days, it was sweep or nothing!
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Good riddance! I once saw someone as you described walking into a bank still wearing his t22 harness! We were better off with jeans and check shirts but if we are gonna have safety gear then please no more green or navy trousers and braces etc!
