Building a horsebox

[Farmerdan]

So after seeing Farmer Chalks project of building a lorry. I have also decided to start my own project. Only we are going to build in house from a grp box. We have auto body repair experience, no coachbuilding. But we will get there. So use can follow our story as work progress's

 

[Farmerdan]

So first off I have bought a man tgl7.150, it's 7.5t with a 23ft body. The plan is to have 11ft in horse area and 12ft in living. I have also purchased a roof pod and ears, side skirts and rear top and bottom bumper. We have just cut the cab and front of box and are about to start fabricating a frame so to leave it as a tilt cab. I will put photos up of each step if I can figure out how.

 

[Deltic Blue]

Interesting to see how you get on with this
Pictures are a must!

 

[Farmerdan]

Hi everyone, need some advice. What is the best option for the tilt cab cut through. So I am currently planning on making a frame on the cab that will meet with one on the box and put a rubber seal around. Then putting maybe 2 or 4 accessible bolts to hold the 2 frames together. As I know some trucks are done like this. Any advice anyone on how your tilt cab joins greatly appreciated

 

[cundlegreen]

Hi everyone, need some advice. What is the best option for the tilt cab cut through. So I am currently planning on making a frame on the cab that will meet with one on the box and put a rubber seal around. Then putting maybe 2 or 4 accessible bolts to hold the 2 frames together. As I know some trucks are done like this. Any advice anyone on how your tilt cab joins greatly appreciated

I would be wary of going overweight with a GRP body. My first conversion was that, and it weighed 6.5 ton without anything in. Re the tilt cab, I put on a longer box van body, cut out a luton area with a flap on the front that you could push forward as I tilted the cab. I didn't do a cut through, but surely would be easier to do that way and keep the weight down.