Body Swap Trailers

[Tomr10]

Apologies - my post was meant to say £19k for a chassis, 15t bin and flat bed. That’s a complete body swap system.

Edit - that’s what you get for trying to do 3 things at once.

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Joking

 

[blue power]

Looks good wot hp is tractor ? Regards.richard.

It’s a T7.270 so around 240hp you need a bit of weight in the tractor when lifting on a full slip weighing 20 ton

 

[Blue.]

Biggest downsides with hooklift is tipping speed and floor height of bins,despite having a tractor with a massive oil flow I find my hooklift very slow to tip.

 

[Blue.]

Keep coming back to these as a viable unit for us, as they tick so many boxes.
Jack the air suspension up. Put legs in body. Lower chassis and drive out.

But I’m struggling to find anyone that makes them.
Stronga do but their bodies are too wide for the UK.
Annaburger but not sure who sells in the UK.

Are there any other makes?

Did you pursue this any further?

In theory there shouldn’t be a huge amount of extra weight,if you had a chassis with the tipping gear/front to back runners similar to a hook lift it wouldn’t weigh much more,with a hook lift all the weight is in the hook gear.

 

[Shavings man]

It’s a T7.270 so around 240hp you need a bit of weight in the tractor when lifting on a full slip weighing 20 ton

Looks good, regards .

 

[Andrew]

Did you pursue this any further?

Yes, but cost was extortionate. A body swap system is cheaper and lighter than a hooklift, but still a lot extra, and spent the money on something else.