josharb87

unfortunatly matt it may be a few months or more before its 100% finished as its a spare time project and steves welding is A1! that petrol cutter was great, although kept rolling my wrist foward for the chain brake!

ok steve, the lights still havent arrived, postmen must be skiving as usuall, im free tommorrow if you want me to come ring up that big trunk i dumped at yours

an 090

great combination! how do you find the u900's for chip trucks? thats a great roof mount, and county all rolled into one

a spade . . .LOL! i know, one day

thanks for the comments, yeah i am pleased with it, yep a winch is on the wish list-a pto one, prob a husky superwinch as its already got the hand throttle and winch bumper:) i'll be more pleased when i get some decent tyres, and replace those crap sides for a nice smooth chip box, oh and fabricate a tool box to go into that gap in the middle with doors on both sides a micro chipper would be great, complimented by a tracked one, and an iveco, and a 4x4 crane lorry, and . . .

thats a fair comment steve, i guess in fairness i must sound like the above joe bloggs "sod paying £600 for them to fell that tree, i'll do it myself!" haha

yeah i know, i brought it with them on unfortunatly, when i can splash out 600 smackers on a set of wheels and tyres i will

but then again its all about skills-if joe bloggs has the skills to take down a tree himself, he's going to take the tree down himself, if youve got the skills to convert vehicles to a tipper, then why not???

allong the same lines as grants, what about finance? how its helped many new people start up increasing competition, creating an undercutting price war, decreasing the ammount of work to go round . . .

back in july/august i brought a 130 200tdi defender with the idea of turning it into a tree truck, slowly ive been replacing worn and broken bits, and a few weeks ago started to convert it to a tipper here it is it was already a dropside pickup, so had a bed for it already a mate had an old transit in his yard, and we done a deal-id remove the buck and keep the tipping gear, ram, and tipping chassis, and he'd have the alluminium sides and floor to weigh in (they were screwed anyway) then took the landy over to steves (nifty steve) yard, and we stripped down the transits buck to leave us with the tipping chassis, we replaced the bottom rail as it had been bent from attempting to lift too much, cut the sides down to suit the landrover, and cut some of the length out of the front to suit the landy we removed the original landy bed and removed the supports too as these were too tall and bolted on some steel channel, then lowered the cut down tipping frame onto the new mounts and welded it in place was just a case of bolting the landrovers bed onto the tipping frame, remounting the lights (new ones on order) remounting the number plate, and bolting a diffrent power pack on (yet to do) as the transits one appears screwed i also wanted a tool box big enough for an 880 with bar, and room for more saws, but which diddnt affect the load area, so we forgot about the mounting closest to the cab, cut the bottom rail of the tipping chassis down and hey presto an area under the body, big enough for saws the resulting height of the tipper is less than 2inches higher than the original bed oh and it cost £96 to convert and a big thanks to nifty steve:thumbup1:

i'll put it on a thread, just needs finishing touches

thats fair enough, so what ideas have you got so far?

myself and nifty steve on here have just about finished converting my 130 landy to a tipper for the huge sum of £96 + fish n chip money. . . sod paying a company thousands!

sounds like a cool plan/bit of a road trip, goodluck!

how about what do you think is affecting arb at the moment . . . and we'll tell you if youre right

crikey thats only a few miles from my dads/where i grew up, any way to get his name andy?

yes they do

a few more of his pics and just because its cool . . Euclid TC12, 45 ton, 500hp, Two super charged, 2stroke diesel engines side by side, 30ft blade. Can be heard in the next village...

lifted from my mates facebook page

that is over the top, wrong but over the top, easy target comes to mind. . . his mistake was pleading guilty/admitting he was riding/stopping imo

awesome vid, there was an article in the observer magazine a year or so ago about a tree surgeon in devon(?) who lived in a wooden cabin he built in the middle of a woodland, no electricity, had an old iorn bath outside raised on breeze blocks over a fire which was lit a few hours before bath time, now that sounds idylic!

me and a mate met one of his old mates at the last apf who does courses-week long ones and were really intrested in doing one, havnt really seen him since to see if he still wants to do one, wasnt bad money either for a week id love to build a log house

20, at 50 a week he might aswell move out!

looks loverly