Height Measuring Stick

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One of the car transporter body builders do a posh one but IIRC they’re around the £70 mark. They’re a cracking bit of kit made from telescopic aluminium box sections and it comes in its own solid storage box. I think it was Transporter Engineering.

I was issued with one on a previous job and made sure I got a receipt for it upon leaving. I only did a few weeks holiday cover in the end.

Cheers
Neilf

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neilf:
One of the car transporter body builders do a posh one but IIRC they’re around the £70 mark. They’re a cracking bit of kit made from telescopic aluminium box sections and it comes in its own solid storage box. I think it was Transporter Engineering.

I was issued with one on a previous job and made sure I got a receipt for it upon leaving. I only did a few weeks holiday cover in the end.

Cheers
Neilf

i used these when on timber trusses…a handy tool

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Transport engineering in Essex make one also bell trailers make stock them as well. We use them on car transporters all go to a height of 5mtrs usually about £75

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or , get some of that sticky backed plastic from Blue Peter, the one with the one inch check squares, cover the front of every trailer you use… … one,two,three,four, one hundred and sixty nine, one hundred and seventy , one hundred and seventy one,SORTED.

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I see there are clinometers onebay for £10. i.e.

height of the vehicle = (tangent of the angle x ground distance to the vehicle) + the height of your eyeball above the ground.

Have to be done on level ground
you could calibrate a telescopic fishing rod or telescopic aerial antenna but I suppose that you need a max extension of 16ft 3"
I always assume the height of the fifth wheel to be 1.25m as some trailers are not marked with an “overall” height. I think it is a legal requirement to have the height displayed in the cab

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bald bloke:

Saaamon:
You can do it by eye.

To within 4 to 6 inches I agree.

So that’s why they’re always hitting bridges :laughing:

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kindle530:
if you have one of these on the back of your cab,
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What a ginger bloke? :open_mouth:
I’m going to check for that as soon as I get home :laughing:

i put an advert in the paper, mudflap wanted, must be willing to travel, and he got the job!

(you cheeky sod! :laughing: )