Chip Box - how tall is too tall?

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We are building another truck. Just finished building the 16ft dump for our 2016 Freightliner M2. Plan on making it a dedicated chip truck was planning on going 84"(7ft) tall box. But still have more road clearance height if we wanted to go taller. How tall is your chip box?
 

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Most everything around us is about 6 foot give or take an inch or two there is one guy that's got a box that pushes the truck to over 13 feet not sure the exact height but it looks very awkward going down the road, it looks like it wants to tip over on level ground
What is the normal situation for getting in a driveway? Tight with low trees? Or wide open? What's the gvw on the truck? What's the empty weight? Where is the rear axle in relation to the center of chip box?
If a tall box is going to put more chips in the front and over load the front with a half load that don't do you no good. It also don't do no good to have a heavily overloaded rear If ur full


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This is our chip truck. It's a 40 yrd shipping container on a 33 gvw chassis. Telling you right now scariest fucking truck when full.
 

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christreez said:
Most everything around us is about 6 foot give or take an inch or two there is one guy that's got a box that pushes the truck to over 13 feet not sure the exact height but it looks very awkward going down the road, it looks like it wants to tip over on level ground
What is the normal situation for getting in a driveway? Tight with low trees? Or wide open? What's the gvw on the truck? What's the empty weight? Where is the rear axle in relation to the center of chip box?
If a tall box is going to put more chips in the front and over load the front with a half load that don't do you no good. It also don't do no good to have a heavily overloaded rear If ur full


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Getting under low trees will be an issue on some jobs. But it's an issue for our other trucks too. We have bucket trucks at 13'1" and a crane at 12' 11". We sometimes have to trim our way in or let the mini fwd to the street. I'm more concerned with swaying going around turns by not making it top heavy. I think we are going to stick with 7' tall box which will keep the truck under 12' 9".

Anyone out there have a chip box taller than 7'?
 
LiTreeService said:
This is our chip truck. It's a 40 yrd shipping container on a 33 gvw chassis. Telling you right now scariest fucking truck when full.
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Have you run that thing across a scale? Front end looks like it would be severely overloaded with the rear axle that far back. You might want to consider adding a tag axle
 
tc262 said:
Have you run that thing across a scale? Front end looks like it would be severely overloaded with the rear axle that far back. You might want to consider adding a tag axle
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O it's severely over weight that's I used it as a example of what not to do. Deff needs a tag but I'm gunna sell it.
 
I was/am planning on going with an 80" tall box. I may go a little shorter. I'm looking to gain a little in capacity for my 14' bed without getting to tall.
 
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