wjw wrote:Where about's are you?

Based in Hawkes Bay but the vehicle more or less lives in Christcurch / Dunedin.

*200kg is a bit of a "safety margin" exaggeration, right now it's more like 75kg with a chance to double it over time.

^This seems like pretty sound advice to me. Having a trailer also comes in handy sometimes when you need to go somewhere but leave your gear onsite, like working shifts and one person leaving to go to sleep. It's tricky designing something on the roof like that while keeping it versatile. I quite ...

http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/diy-modifications-accessories-40/spare-tyre-winch-80474/ What about something like in post 8. Wow, that's a much more elegant form of something I already looked at with an engineer down in Invercargill. I guess the length of the crane is determined by the length of ...

Thanks guys. Those boat loaders are a good idea but they are just a bit too lightweight for my needs. I have two boxes about 40 and 50kg and I'd like to have capacity for two more in future, so around 200kg would be preferable. I wonder if they can make a stronger version of the same thing, I'll ...

I have a 70-series Troopie as a work vehicle and I need a way of getting some really long, (kind of) heavy boxes on and off the roof. Just lifting them by hand is going to get me thrown off a work site one of these days... Can anybody point me in the direction of an engineering outfit or even a ...