Bedford restoration with Chassis extension.

rear mounted cranes put a lot of stress on the overhang ,and a Bedford with a tapered rail would need considerable reinforcement......Even bogie drives with heavy section all the way need something like 3 layers of reinforcement.......On a single drive ,behind the cab is where I would want a crane.

G'day John K
The Hiab is mounted, (or will be), Directly behind cab, I've only extended rear of Chassis to help support the tray
Cheers

More photos.

We look at the words and read the pictures.

More photos the better, good to share the journey with us free loaders

Paul

About the time Noah was transporting animals I worked for International.
We did a fair bit of chassis alterations, always straight cuts BUT we had a weld procedure/pattern to run something like 5 welds per side.
This was to prevent distortion of the rails but also slowed the heat input into the rails.
Acco's were easy, just tack on the end, D Lines you had to let a section into the middle so double welds.
Cannot see a problem with the angle cut.
Cheers Steve

You asked for it
I’ll put some more up when the hiab is sitting on it

PTO and Pump

Thats a flash looking PTO and pump, all nice and shiny

Paul

Bitza

FWIW

Hope U followd the instructions fitn the PTO to side of cog box to get the correct gear backlash

also
to engage the PTO with engine run n with out grinding the gears
put the cog box into 1st (this stops the gears from turning}
engage PTO ........ then select neutral in cog box

cya

Guess there will be a few holes and bolts in the new section
for cross members and other fittings. Won't look out of place.
Neat job. Paul.