Reasons For Getting A Drop Side

Reasons For Getting A Drop Side

Reasons For Getting A Drop Side

Drop side vehicles have become common sight. They are very useful vehicle designs. They have not always been around though. There was a time when people had to struggle along without the convenience of a drop side. How did the drop side evolve?

The first working vehicles were farm carts, these carts were usually drawn by domesticated animals, such as horses. Or if this was a poor farm, pushed by hand. Either way, these "boxes on wheels" were cumbersome and not that easy to use when trying to load with heavy items. Farmers soon learned that by allowed the one side to be on a hinge, which was usually the back of the cart in early designs, they could load heavy items more easily. These carts became the first in a long line of varying designs on the drop side.

Henry Ford invented the engine powered, internal combustion car in 1896. People sson realised the pulling power of a car far surpassed that of a horse. Cars were much stronger and tougher than the flesh and blood beasts. It did not take long for them to design the first pick up trucks. The first was released by Henry Ford in 1925. It did not take much longer before every farmer or man with a load to carry had a pick up truck. They certainly made things easier and soon the horse was phased out as a beast of burden.

Now every bakkie and load bearing vehicle (be they 4x4 or truck) has drop side options. It is possible to turn a drop side into a flatbed by either dropping or removing all the sides of the cargo bay. Other options are to drop one side and load the vehicle and then replace the side. This makes the drop side a very versatile vehicle to have at your disposure.

The drop side option on the rear panel could have been problematic in that it blocked the view of the rear lights and the need for some interesting wiring to prevent the connection being broken whilst the back was down. The solution was simple, placing the lights lower down and on either side or built into the fixed side panels solved that problem.

Being able to drop all three sides of the loading bay makes it possible to load large bulky loads without having to use miles of rope to keep them in place. It takes a lot less effort to load the vehicle as the load does not have to be lifted and gently lowered again. Instead it can be pushed up a ramp and slid onto the bed of the truck without any fear of damages being caused by dropping the item onto the truck.

The emergence of the drop side has made carrying loads a lot easier on both the loads and the loaders. Loads can be more carefully handled with the result that less gets broken. Loaders do not have their backs put out of alignment by having to lift and gently settle heavy items for transport. And to think that it evolved from the simple horse and cart.

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