Market car park, landrovers

[Green farmer]

To be strong enough to carry a decent load, you're pretty quickly into 7.5t territory.
Fine for anyone over 40, but it's a shrinking market that can drive them on a car license...

Not necessarily, plenty of 3.5tonne ford transits and Renault masters have it done for horses. Just something with air vents and stainless steel flooring and ramp. If they could design something simple At nearly the same price bracket of normal van, reckon people would buy one. Would mean you wouldn’t need to have a separate trailer license either.

 

[Nithsdale]

Not necessarily, plenty of 3.5tonne ford transits and Renault masters have it done for horses. Just something with air vents and stainless steel flooring and ramp. If they could design something simple At nearly the same price bracket of normal van, reckon people would buy one. Would mean you wouldn’t need to have a separate trailer license either.

No. Standard car license you're limited to 3.5t. You take a Transit pickup and put a container on it, you'll be at a 2.5t unladen. 1 cow and you're at your car license limit - what's the point.

To make it viable and replace a livestock trailer it needs to be capable of 4 cows or 45 fat lambs... for that you will need a 7.5t license.

There is a reason why nobody does this.

 

[Green farmer]

No. Standard car license you're limited to 3.5t. You take a Transit pickup and put a container on it, you'll be at a 2.5t unladen. 1 cow and you're at your car license limit - what's the point.

To make it viable and replace a livestock trailer it needs to be capable of 4 cows or 45 fat lambs... for that you will need a 7.5t license.

There is a reason why nobody does this.

Maybe we’re just farming on different scales, most standard vans have a load capacity of 1 to 1.5 tonne. That would be plenty for a small sheep farmer like me. If you wanted the extra capacity you could put a trailer behind it and get your few extra tonne.

 

[Happy]

What are the 4wd Mercedes sized transit vans called?
SSE using them in fields when doing repair works these days now that they haven’t many Land Rovers left.
First time I saw the tracks on the ploughing round one of my fields I thought the Pikeys had been in.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

be too clumsy on little roads.
there was a small mb trac years ago but bit underpowered at 80hp,must admit have recently even beenthinking about a transit 350 with the double wheels and ally but
no good off road tho like a lorry wouldnt be either

Get a real Merc, like a 4x4 1833 or 1835

 

[andybk]

Pity no one makes a van with the cargo area factory converted to carry livestock. Would never have to tow a trailer again.

thats what we always used till now , we converted an old fibreglass cheese vat which slid up between the wheel arches ,ramp at back ,carry about 8 sheep , sealed at front , and could be slid out for washes , been used over 5 vans over the years , was great for going up to carlisle on motorway .Even brought sheep back from holland in it before all the regulation Trading standards were happy with it as long as top half of van bulkhead was removed, for air flow ,

 

[Skintagain]

I have a landrover td5 just over 200k on clock first clutch at 105k when I got it still ok on second. Also have hilux with 40k on needing its first clutch and will not go anywhere near where the landy will go - nice ride though but it does hurt my back on long journeys and the old rougher ride landrover doesn’t. I am a landrover lover.

 

[roscoe erf]

I have a landrover td5 just over 200k on clock first clutch at 105k when I got it still ok on second. Also have hilux with 40k on needing its first clutch and will not go anywhere near where the landy will go - nice ride though but it does hurt my back on long journeys and the old rougher ride landrover doesn’t. I am a landrover lover.

you do know you said that out loud

 

[Skintagain]

Yes note to self act cool next time.

 

[penntor]

If the Moggy 1000 pickup and van had a 4 wheel drive option the Japanese pickups would not have got a look in.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Get a real Merc, like a 4x4 1833 or 1835

you havnt scene our narrow roads have you

 

[Princess Pooper]

We had a couple of Defenders which lasted us over 30 years between them, after being bought s/h, proper heavy use doing a lot of off-road work and towing cattle around. We retired the last one just as they announced the end of production. Prices for second hand ones went crazy and they were suddenly even more targeted by thieves than previously so we sadly moved away from them.

 

[General-Lee]

What are the 4wd Mercedes sized transit vans called?

Sprinter?

 

[Fossil]

There was a tidy low mileage fourtrak on eBay for ten grand not so long ago...

If it’s the same one, it’s been on auto trader for nearly a year at that price. Asking price and value are two different things....

 

[roscoe erf]

just had to go and buy another one after this thread

 

[Donkey Oaty]

Landrover at markets with trailors are really dieing out, everybody these dayz have either a nissian, hilux but mostly newer Isuzu pickups, 10 years ago everybody had an l200, hardly any of those and 15 years ago everybody had defender, we had a few defenders but to tell the truth they were hellish, l can't see landrover ever coming back in popularity, the price of old ones are crazy as well.

I was at a roup (displenish sale) yesterday and thought the same thing. The car park was full of trucks. Land rover missed a trick by not moving with the times and getting into this market.

 

[firther]

i remember at honley show a couple of years ago, it had poured down all night an morning and fields were a mess. only vehicles that could get to unloading points were defenders and they made it look easy with a trailer on. Never had a defender but I were impressed

 

[coomoo]

Old man here uses his defender religiously, I’m 6 3” and detest it. Finally succumbed to pick up few months back, new navara and I’m totally in love with it. Motorway miles easy full day hauling cattle yesterday hardly even notice them behind you. Was in the defender through the week passenger door only just catches on latch but them window wipers are real stars just stop wherever they take there fancy

 

[Nithsdale]

I'm 6'1", there's plenty of room in a Defender. I actually think they'd be hellish to drive if you were short!

 

[Al R]

I'm 6'1", there's plenty of room in a Defender. I actually think they'd be hellish to drive if you were short!

I’m 6’2” and found the last 110 td4 I drove very uncomfortable but the boss loved them and spent a fortune on different mod kits so mud wouldn’t splash from the wheels inwards etc, put a snorkel on it so dust wouldn’t go in, made bull bars front and rear and even an LED light ontop for reversing. Horrid to drive and I can’t believe we actually used to drive 300 mile trips in it every so often. Reliability wasn’t great and always had a flat battery if not started every 12hours. Unless rain was beating down I tended to drive with my arm out the window, which was manual winding!

When I needed a 4x4 for home and to tow a box I looked at all makes of 4x4, except a LR! Chuffed to bits with my D-Max and the kids have plenty of space, adults even have plenty of space in the back on long journeys.