Suitable pickup for lawn cutting

Philipki

I'm running a small lawn cutting business and I am looking at buying a small to medium size pickup as soon as possible. I am caught between a short wheel base Toyota dyna or a Ford Transit dropside. I'd be carrying an average size ride on mower , a push mower , a strimmers and stuff like petrol cans. I'd hope to have room to carry at least one builders bag of grass clippings so would the swb Dyna be too small for my needs? I've heard the Dynas are brutal when it's wet and if a wind hits the side of one so that's probably another reason I'd be better off with a Transit. I'd be going for a 2003 shape Transit as I believe they are the most reliable ones for under say 5 grand. All help appreciated

AudiAvant

Philipki wrote: »

I'm running a small lawn cutting business and I am looking at buying a small to medium size pickup as soon as possible. I am caught between a short wheel base Toyota dyna or a Ford Transit dropside. I'd be carrying an average size ride on mower , a push mower , a strimmers and stuff like petrol cans. I'd hope to have room to carry at least one builders bag of grass clippings so would the swb Dyna be too small for my needs? I've heard the Dynas are brutal when it's wet and if a wind hits the side of one so that's probably another reason I'd be better off with a Transit. I'd be going for a 2003 shape Transit as I believe they are the most reliable ones for under say 5 grand. All help appreciated

Had a 07 transit myself with the old 2.4 tddi duratorc engine
Was very reliable and good on diesel once not dogged
Cheap for parts aswell
Ideal for what your at anyway

Isambard

how about a trailer?

nu_90

Would you not be better off with transit van instead of dropside. Security wise and plus if u got front wheel drive u could easily just have small ramp to drive ride on up vs a rear wheel drive which would be higher off ground?