Paddleducks
General => Chat & Off Topic Stuff => Topic started by: apointofview on August 24, 2016, 09:08:36 AM
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I had to find a solution to getting my sternwheeler in and out of the pond. It is a spine breaking adventure lifting the boat while standing on soft/muddy ground. It is such a pain that it has been keeping me out of the water. So after trying to make a crane, and a sled that rides down a ladder, both of which failed it came down to a simple trailer. I used PVC pipe and 4 old wagon wheels and a bit of rubber mat to build it. I used a few suggestions from other modelers like the rubber to keep the boat from sliding off the trailer. The pole to push the trailer came from a swimming pool cleaner. I gave it a test today just to see if it worked. I didn't have time to run the boat today just testing the trailer. It looks like its going to make boating much nicer, it worked great
Video - https://youtu.be/Ks07acLniuQ
Pete
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Pete,
Just brilliant, simple things almost always work the best. Well done.
Robert.
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Nice to hear from you Pete.... we " :gathering " were thinking you had paddled up river & not come back yet :whistle
Is the PVC tube ballasted to stop it floating?
Derek
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A nice piece of ingenuity Pete well done. :bravo :bravo :clap :clap
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Great piece of work...I must get round to building something like that.
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Thanks guys, its nice to have something work like I imagine it should. Most of the time I find myself having to backup and rework many times. That saying ' even a blind squirrel gets a nut once in awhile ' applies here
I have been quiet because life has been busy and boating in 90 to 100 degrees F ( 32C to 37C ) with plenty of humidity is not too appealing :P
Derek - I just left the pvc open so it floods with water. The trailer does float but only after the boat does . Nice thing about that is I wont lose the trailer to the bottom of the lake if it gets away ;D