Unimog Club UK

Ok, her goes:
high ratio hubs, underbelly high speed pto, pto driven werner f56 or f64 winch (which ever we choose to put on, f64 has a 7 tonne pull rate, f56 has a 71/2 tonne LIFT rate, variable pull, autofeed, fully remote control, 300 feet of rope etc...) werner winch blade (demountable blade, legal requirement in germany) , rear linkage, front and rear pto, full cascade gearbox, hiab crane (forget which model) only 270 degree rotation though, the constant rotation is very nice webasto heater, Michelin XM47's . crew cab, although that depends on your requirements on whether thats an advantage or not but that is what makes ours so unusual, the fact that its a crew cab with all that gear on, take a look around some of the forums (such as benzworld) and theyve put a link to the youtube video, and people are amazed at how much kit is on it. oh, and we also have a pickup hitch, but we've never actually bothered with fitting it.
it does need some work doing on the cab 

I have to say, what i like most is actually the 4 spool proportional valve with joystick, we were thinking of doing something like this on the 406 120 with switches instead, but might talk to dad about the joystick, although we'd only ever use it for lifting and lowering a flail on the black mog so is it really worth it for us?

I like the idea of a crew cab and I saw your truck in the forum, will need to do something soon as I have two sons, a 3 year old and 4 month old so I don't know how they will both fit in (unless I modify the pedals so the 3 year old can reach them as his driving and steering is spot on and I'll sit in the back!).

Another mod I've thought of is wouldn't mind being able to turn it 'off' the hydraulics and not pump oil around when I don't need it, as for a high speed pto to which could drive the hydraulics can that do it?, I think I have one on another gearbox, if I take a picture of it can you help identify what it is?

As for cost, I don't spend much apart from lots and lots of time, the 406 was £2850 with the addition of a LWB chassis, cab, gearbox and axles which was nice, but the guy listed it on the Friday before Christmas day with poor spelling and pictures so all I'd say is save your money and search at Christmas!, so don't worry Nick, use the power of ebay and 'saved searches'! 

The sauer danfoss valve block was in exchange for some plastering, (had to buy the joystick, again you can guess where from Ebay Europe somewhere) and I'd recommend it as you only have to wire the joystick to the valve block and happy days (although it's a 24V unit), really nice not to drip oil everywhere when you disconnect the quick release couplers, I wouldn't buy one outright as their +4K new, but I did manage to pick 2, 4 spool proportional parker valves up off ebay recently when a guy didn't know what they were (one's for the crane remote control project, other spare).

Bang bang (on / off) solenoids on hydraulics are fine and you can use the lever in my case on the steering column to vary the flow, however beware when tipping as flicking the switch with the lever locked in full flow sends the tipper up like a catapult!

You'd be surprised what has proportional electro hydraulics on - hedgecutters, diggers etc so have a look on ebay and I could have a spare soon as well.

Will take the pics of the output pto and wedge in another forum when I get to them.