Wild Camping, Hiking, Back pack, Tent talk, Mini camper etc.......

[Daniel cain 42,796]

[Blackmag 5,862]

1 hour ago, dai dogs said:

Shelter I knocked up a few years back where I walk the dogs 

I enjoy coming across things like this when I'm out I bet that could come in handy in winter dai 

[fireman 10,774]

6 hours ago, antg said:

be a grand little lorry that with them kind of miles on it. the 330 engine in them tks were good engines. still sought after and make good money still.

look forwad to seeing your renovation.

This one has a 220 turbo in it and the turbo makes a difference believe me as them old Bedfords weren't the fastest of lorries up hills no matter what engine they had,but those 330 were good old lumps but many a old Bedford was chopped up for them which is a shame but i'm as guilty as anyone else was for that...Have sorted some transport on getting it back home the start of next week so watch this space as they say ..

[fireman 10,774]

11 hours ago, TOMO said:

cheers chaps...I thought it was that...I was driving a skip lorry for a scrap yard back in 2006 ...

wasn't sure if the rules had changed or not

You can drive up to 7.5 and tow a trailer up to the train weight of the lorry, but there is no trailer laws any more and anyone can tow a trailer no matter when you took your test...As it goes  you can drive any bus on a car licence as long as it's still regd as a bus,if it's classed as a camper then a HGV is needed if it's over 7.5 ton.Double decker busses are over 7.5 ton and are wank to live it if your over 5 ft tall,been there, done it,take my fecking word for it....Horse boxes are the way to go as they have been looked after,some have low miles,not many youngsters can drive them so limited to who to sell to and compared to camper vans cheap as chips,removal trucks have the space but have high miles and aren't as cheap..

Edited July 23, 2022 by fireman

[fireman 10,774]

Here's a pic of it in the raw as such...

Edited July 23, 2022 by fireman

[forest of dean redneck 11,183]

Wasn’t the tks the ones with the easy to steal gearbox in ? Literally like 4 bolts ?? 
 

[fireman 10,774]

1 minute ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Wasn’t the tks the ones with the easy to steal gearbox in ? Literally like 4 bolts ?? 
 

4 bolts holding it onto the bell housing,4 on the prop and one or two on the gear linage coming out the top of the gear box.They weren't really easy but a easy enough £100 as it were, but it does take less time to get a Bedford running than it does to take off a Bedford gear box and the money was in the engines really....

[forest of dean redneck 11,183]

44 minutes ago, fireman said:

4 bolts holding it onto the bell housing,4 on the prop and one or two on the gear linage coming out the top of the gear box.They weren't really easy but a easy enough £100 as it were, but it does take less time to get a Bedford running than it does to take off a Bedford gear box and the money was in the engines really....

Will you be fitting a big sound system in

[fireman 10,774]

8 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Will you be fitting a big sound system in

Not a massive one but it'll be loud enough for a few folks to have a dance about to, be sort of rude not to really eh...

[ands 491]

Had some great times away in the old lorry you can abuse them them a little more than a camper van! lol

[forest of dean redneck 11,183]

5 minutes ago, ands said:

Had some great times away in the old lorry you can abuse them them a little more than a camper van! lol

Bit big for me but I’ve been seriously thinking of van life , was looking to see how much a tidy old Toyota previa or lucida would be but they are rare or silly money Shame I liked one my ex wife had . 

[dogmandont 9,312]

Met a family in a converted fire engine on a tiny road on Friday in the arse end of nowhere in donegal, almost looked like an old uni mog of some sort. 

[tillylamp 1,808]

6 hours ago, fireman said:

You can drive up to 7.5 and tow a trailer up to the train weight of the lorry, but there is no trailer laws any more and anyone can tow a trailer no matter when you took your test...As it goes  you can drive any bus on a car licence as long as it's still regd as a bus,if it's classed as a camper then a HGV is needed if it's over 7.5 ton.Double decker busses are over 7.5 ton and are wank to live it if your over 5 ft tall,been there, done it,take my fecking word for it....Horse boxes are the way to go as they have been looked after,some have low miles,not many youngsters can drive them so limited to who to sell to and compared to camper vans cheap as chips,removal trucks have the space but have high miles and aren't as cheap..

has the law changed now then with the motorhomes.....you say you need a hgv over 7.5 ton

it use to be that if you past your driving test before 96 that didn't apply you could drive over 7.5 ton on a motorhome... 

[low plains drifter 9,457]

 

[fireman 10,774]

16 hours ago, tillylamp said:

has the law changed now then with the motorhomes.....you say you need a hgv over 7.5 ton

it use to be that if you past your driving test before 96 that didn't apply you could drive over 7.5 ton on a motorhome... 

Not sure nowadays to be honest but that's what i always thought, not that it made much difference what the driving laws were back then.Most of us bought motors from scrap yards etc and eeked a few more years out the old things but by feck we had some fun doing it and i have memories that are sometimes hard to believe even though i was doing it or i was there....

.Just found a pic of my 1952 Austin Loadstar,4 litre 6 pot petrol,full restore on that back to the primer and it was in show condition bar the wing mirrors as i towed a trailer with it and the originals were the size of a tea cup and shit to see out of...Crash gear box,no power streering and 10 mpg, wish i still had it