cheekymonkey:
My mate always used to say “Horse boxes? Overweight, underpowered, poorly mantained and driven by a mere slip of a lass.”
Your mate is probably right. Mine is based on a 7.5 eurocargo and deliberately has no above cab pod and only a bench seat and safety belts in the living to keep the weight down and ive put an aluminium floor in the horse area to keep the weight down. yet with all the bits needed to finish it weighs in at 5.5 tons wth only 500kg spare over the front axle.
Each horse weighs around 500kg so with passengers, water, saddles etc you would be lucky to get more than 2 horses in and stay below weight. talking to a professional convertor ge reckons the ones geared for private use with kitchen bathroom beds etc are doing well to come in at 6 - 6.5 tons. He had one that was on the front axle limit unloaded.
i imagine many with more than one horse are running over weight.
I’ll be doing either an 18 or 26 ton conversion next just so as not to worry about weight and be able to carry 5 or 6 comfortably.