Rewire
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The dealer has five on the lot with just over two months left in the year I want one but I think I will wait to see what the price is closer to years end.
Since these are aluminum ladders, do you take any additional precautions to reduce the chances of getting shocked? Like setting the ladder on a rubber mat or some other insulator? I'm sure you try to work on things de-energized, but stuff happens... I like the design of this series of ladders...I'm just kinda scared to use anything but fiberglass.
We have Fiberglas little giants. Heavy as hell but when you need them they are great.
they have rubber feet on them. i tossed a piece of sheetmetal on the floor, and meggered them.
they hold 1,000 VDC at something above 2.2 G, so i'm ok with that.....
It's built on one of their small ford 4 cylinder car frames. It's probably okay for service. I don't think a six ft ladder will fit unless you let it extend in between the seats.
Of course you can install a ladder rack and conduit holder on top.
The one I looked at the top inside had carpet on it like a passenger van. The salesman said taxes are so high to send a commercial van here. They put seats in it then send it here as a passenger van. Take the seats out, send them back overseas to be used the same way again.
Same here. Hate to load it on the rack, hate to take it off, but when the time is right there is nothing better.We have Fiberglas little giants. Heavy as hell but when you need them they are great.
The Connect is also sold in the UK and I see a few of them around but the Transit proper has been around for over forty years in man guises from plain panel vans, pick-up trucks, mini-vans, ice-cream vans, camper vans, to ambulances and police vans to pick up the drunken trouble makers at pub closing time. Ubiquitous it has been.Transit vans are not yet available in the US. Supposedly they'll be available 2nd quarter of 2013. For now the only available model is the Transit Connect, which many people refer to as the Transit. That'll stop when they start selling the full size vans
The Connect is also sold in the UK and I see a few of them around but the Transit proper has been around for over forty years in man guises from plain panel vans, pick-up trucks, mini-vans, ice-cream vans, camper vans, to ambulances and police vans to pick up the drunken trouble makers at pub closing time. Ubiquitous it has been.
It made the UK news today for all the wrong reasons. The Transit van factory in Southampton which has been making transit vans for 40 tears is scheduled to close next summer with the main production moving to Turkey. Obviously production jobs will be lost at the production plant but far greater numbers in the supply chains will take a hit. Sad news.
I just happened to ask the other day at the Ford dealer about the Transit. They've been undergoing road testing here for over a year now, so they should be close to ready for releasing them. As far as I know, once they start selling them they're going to phase out the E series vans. It will be a tough adjustment for a lot of Americans, but I think ultimately a Ford is a Ford.
I don't know about it being British. Like many other Ford vehicles, it is manufactured in a number of countries.Oh man, that completely ruins my business plan. I was going to open a Transit dealership and call it "Colonel Blimp's Transit Emporium" but where would the authenticity be now? Somehow "Turkish Transit Delight" doesn't have that same ring... Joking aside, that is sad news considering the fact that the Transit is really a British vehicle through and through.
Making any small bus type vehicle on a frame base is less than wise for how high the center of gravity tends to be. IIRC, the euro style full size vans don't have frames (lowered floors) which gives them a little more inherent safety in that regard.