Horsebox bulkhead

[Eggs]

If I was to buy a horsebox, a box grafted onto a chassis cab is there anything stopping me cutting through the bulkhead/box to gain accces directly from the cab, or is it structural and a no no?

 

[Gromett]

Yes you can in most cases. However, if you have a tilt cab you need to have the connection be disconnectable. I did look at doing something similar with a normal 7.5T truck. I was going to use a large inner tube as the sealing mechanism with an overlapped lip.

Some horseboxes are made of a steel frame so you would need to weld in supports around where you cut out.

 

[Spriddler]

I guess it varies depending upon which chassis, plus whether the bulkhead is a stressed part of the cab and how much you intend to remove.

 

[Aireworth]

My wife had a horsebox 20years ago with a tilt cab and a cut through the back wall of the cab. Can't recall how it was sealed when not tilted, but it was fairly basic. Many of the 7.5 tonne horseboxes will have this arrangement. Go look at some.

 

[tacr2man]

A rubber or canvas bellows system that unclips from cab or body for tilting cab . The bellows needs to have enough play in it to allow for the relative movement of the body to the cab as the chassis will twist when on uneven ground , the more uneven the more the flex .
If thinking of buying a horsebox to convert , they usually are very rusty/rotted out lower down due to horse by products
They are also quite expensive for what they are compared with say an ex fridge/chiller box vehicle .

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[Spriddler]

If thinking of buying a horsebox to convert , they usually are very rusty/rotted out lower down due to horse by products
They are also quite expensive for what they are compared with say an ex fridge/chiller box vehicle .

When a pal left the RAF he joined BA as an aircraft fitter. He said that when they removed the toilet floors to carry out periodic safety inspections the ribs and panels underneath were always severely corroded from urine and extensive sections of the structure had to be replaced.

 

[Eggs]

My wife had a horsebox 20years ago with a tilt cab and a cut through the back wall of the cab. Can't recall how it was sealed when not tilted, but it was fairly basic. Many of the 7.5 tonne horseboxes will have this arrangement. Go look at some.

I've looked, the one I've found is 3.5t on a boxer chassis. It's not going to be used as a MH.