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IPPERS and DROPSIDES
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• Small tipper and dropside bodies ai popular on 3.5-tonners because they lei themselves to a variety of operation including tool hire, builders merchai deliveries, landscape gardening and variety of local authority operations fro road repairs to refuse collection.
Body panels, tailgates and bulkheai can be steel or aluminium and single double-skinned. Bulkheads can be solid more usually, incorporate a mesh sectii to improve rearward vision from the ca Corrosion-resistant aluminium is no comparable with steel on price an according to Tipmaster, offers a 301 weight saving over an equivalent ste body. Although dropsiders are often al aluminium, tippers tend to have a ste frame with aluminium inserts.
Double-skinned walls add exti strength but at the cost of payload. With this In mind Hydromech hi added the Euro lightweight single-skin steel body to Its established ram of double-skinned Highway bodies.
The popularity of three-way tippers is waning, according to Tipmasti sales director Matthew Terry: "Three-way tipping is versatile, but the tippii gear is around 50kg heavier and you do need to make sure the driver knov
iw to operate the system. If the locating pins are not in the correct position le body will not tip in the direction the driver thinks it will."
Tipmaster makes all its own tipping gear so It Is confident that it can meet lassis manufacturers demands for three-year warranties on bodywork. It iys the power pack and ram are the mostly like components to fail, and as it anufactures its own tipping gear it is confident of quality.
Tipmaster partners Nissan and has also supplied the body for one of the 't Peugeot Boxer chassis-cabs to go Into service. It has a scissor-action iderfloor tipping mechanism; the body features a steel headboard, floor and irner pillars with aluminium flush side panels. Payload is 1,3130kg.
If you need a dropside or tipper body quickly but do not want to go through a
m dealer, Ingimex offers a while-you-wait body fitting service at its Telford
ant. Ingimex partners Ford and lveco in their one-stop shop programmes, so it's used to handling fast turnarounds. The Drop-On body service saves time by cutting out one trip, says sales director John Mulkeen: "Instead of the operator or chassis manufacturer dropping off the chassis and returning for it at a later date, the driver simply waits in our reception while we attach the body."
Fitting takes about an hour, says Mulkeen, and Telford's location means most operators can get there and back within a day. "We ask operators to give us 48-hours notice, because that helps planning and reduces waiting time," he adds.
More local authorities are exploiting the versatility of 3.5-tonne tippers by adding refuse hoods and cages for waste paper collection and are putting specialist bodies into service that are designed to make domestic recycling collections more efficient. This is a growth area, as the government has set councils targets to increase the amount of domestic waste they recycle. The material for recycling has to be sorted into type, and whether the sorting is done at the kerbside or later, it requires a different sort of body to the familiar refuse collection vehicle with bin-lifting equipment on the rear.
Fame, best known for its cavernous boxvan conversions on Citroen chassis, has developed a low-height body for domestic collections of recycled waste. The materials for recyling go into separate containers on the chassis, and there is access from either side.