My uncle and me have just finished building this, its our own design, took us ages to work out

what do you think?

 

tidy! Good job
dont see that many slide and tilt transits.
Whats of nett weight of that one?

 

it weighs 2220kg, which is light for a steel tilt and slide

 

looks good that fella

 

Very nice,good for bringing a trackcar around the country!!!Regards,Micky

 

not bad at all that lyk. is it plated at 3.5t or been up'd to 5t?

 

nice one

 

That's a tidy job mate


you got any pics of how the bed and ram are attached?

 

no its still a 3.5t but it isnt hydraulic

 

Like that and unusual to see tilt bed on a transit

 

spot on, cant go wrong at that weight eh.

very nice

 

Is that not a hydraulic pipe across the chassis then?

 

Looks very nice, excellent job


Brian

 

nope

i'll not go into detail because it took us ages to design and perfect it but its electric, no fluid involved what so ever, thats why its quite light

 

very nice but you are only really looking at small cars on that to stay legal, with a carrying capacity of 1.28tons, limits you very much to small passenger vehicles, saxo/106/empty escort van

 

it could do with having the deck and some other bits made of ali to drop the weight a bit and the next one we do is going to have but i think we've done pretty well to get it to the weight is considering its all steel, the deck is the same board as ifor williams and the like use on thair trailers

 

thats looks like a mint bit of kit,does it pull the body back on, with the van on it ok,how much to build a body like that then or is the pickup forsale, pm me if you want

 

been involved with recovery trucks for many years (gave 24hr up a good few years ago)

and spent far too much time ensuring weights are bang right. some nice ally box would drop that nicely down. you need 1500kgs free all up to take your average cars mate.

 

thats what we'll be aiming for on the next one, ally cross bearers, side raves, head board and an ally plank deck with grip tape, its going to cost a bit like lol its not cheap that stuff

 

aluminium is really expensive, but if you can weld it it is very nice and light yet strong.

 

it is dear but it doesnt half make it a nice job once its done, i really dont like chequer plate though, it has to be them interlocking planks, they are a lot stronger that plate too

 

heres a few others we've made

the slidebed is our best so far though

 

done a good job.

 

cheers for the comments

i'll post pics of our next one when we're done with it, its the white crew cab in the background of the pics

 

the weight is what i was getting at when i ast if it had been upped. i think the name for the wood you used is kerosine & its fooking heavy stuff all our trailers & rigids have it as there floors so does our 7.5t recovery truck too. would be interested to see the all electric design yous have come up with

 

the way we have done it is pretty clever but i cant say anything because as far as i am aware nobody has made one like this before, it works superb to be honest



manages this with ease, it'll be overloaded but it yanked it on no problem, doesnt even look over loaded

 

apart from the super light power steering !

 

haha, its not bad, the new transits are nice and long so theres plenty of weight on the front, its a proper 16 foot deck too

 

Cracking trucki drive a few ones like this one

 

Can you snatch off it?

 

Nice piece of kit. love it something i have been looking into.

 

i use spec lift myself, can carry a little more weight as long as my rear axle isnt overloaded