Dear Plasnart,
utes, or light trucks, or call them as you wish, are so useful that should be there on the Moon a place they still don't exist, they would invent them. In Eastern Europe, in Bulgaria in particular, they just import them because we don't produce cars, but potatoes and tomatoes. Others in Europe also produce them.
My brother happened to have got a hand on a good-mechanics machine, this 1991 260 model, for god money, and since he needs a powerful workhorse but not just a heavy "weekender" that needlessly spills out more smog on this Earth, he is looking for a way to convert it, which in Bulgaria happen to be realizable for reasonable money (the conversion, or other mounting costs). The crane itself costs more than the Patrol itself.
As for the towbar-mounted solution used to load a trailer, it might just be more practical to mount some easy lifting device on the trailer itself. We need however something that also lifts boxes for working them, not just for loading them on the trailer. I just saw solutions like those ones, that apparently open new directions:
http://www.kegiom.com/eng/products.htm
The question is the costs, which are to be seen.
In the meantime, we are open for any solution. So, beekeepers, please, have your say!
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Originally Posted by ixston
