Colin_Foster

true. Although as im sure it is with all these cool vehicles, there is a point when the vehicle becomes counter productive, as they are just too fun and no work would ever get done!!

I guess ill throw my 2 cents worth in and say that these are good fun to race.. not much good in the arb industry though.

In this the locker box is as far farward as possible as the back of the front seats come back past the door pillar so having the lader doesnt effect the positioning of the locker box, but I do see where all of you are coming from and ideally I would have baised this on a 130 but they seem to be a fair bit more expencive. The size of the bed in the back of my design is just under 1.3m in length and just over 1.5m in width. The bars going along the back were there with the potential of having fibreglass sheets put in if the occational small bit of chip or wood needed to be carted off. I wouldnt have thought you would be able to fill much more then that size befor going over the weight limit with tools as well. As reguards to security, I wouldnt be leaving tools in over night. Pole saws and other long things were ideally going to go on the roof. But again this vehicle would primarily be used as a tool carrier and any segnificant amount of waste would be going in a trailer. It might be a bit over designed or pointless as just a tool carrier but I seem to have a tendancy of making things just because I havnt seen it done like that before. I think it come form having built and raced hovercraft all my life Mines the black one incase you were wondering! Still, really appreciate the different veiws so far, I can already see a re-think/re-design is in order!

Yeah I would mainly want to use it as a tool carrier, as I cant see my self doing an awful lot of private jobs straight out of college. I decided I wanted something with a flat bed on (even though its fairly small, its still larger than the bed of a 110 crew cab) just to cart the odd load of logs home for the fire or other such things. Id plan on just using this and a high side trailer for brash or wood chip as i start up and then when I can afford the licence, I'd be aiming to get a vario tipper. Thanks for all the input though so far, its some good points being mentioned.

hello all, new to the forum and the arb industry. Im currently finishing up a level 3 at Sparsholt, to cut a long story short I have been given an end of year project which has to relate to arboriculture (was a fairly vague assignment breif leaving us open to do what we wanted ), I decided I wanted to create a design for a works vehicle. The vehicle I based my project on was a Land Rover 110, which I plan on getting soon to use as my arb truck. Hopefully, if I have uploaded the pictures right, you guys will be able to see what my design would be for a work truck. Im aiming for the truck to be as versatile as possible, yet still practical. It would also have winch and other gizmos. What I'm asking of you all is to chip in and comment on what you think of the truck good or bad, any changes you'd make or any thing you think would not be practical. This would help me out hugely in my evaluation part of my college project, and eventually when i get round to making it. Any comments are welcome and much appreciated.