Another exhausting day with an early morning boat flip first, followed by the cutting off of the lifting lugs, some re-touching where the lugs were and then off to pick up the new trailer. Everything went to plan and the loading onto the trailer was a very simple and smooth affair. I unhitched the trailer from the car after backing it in just under the boat so the bow was almost making contact with the first keel roller. I hitched the winch on to the bow lug and used the 10:1 ratio, as I wound the boat up, the trailer and boat moved in unison towards each other, the front of the trailer tilted upward but as I continued to wind, the trailer then leveled off again and the boat went on with no dramas. It took quite a few hours to get the trailer skids and rollers adjusted though but I expected this.
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| Boat taken outside with brackets welded on transom & jockey wheels bolted to them. This worked really well, the jockey wheels are quite strong. |
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| Hitch system with back-up support. It took a long while to grind the lugs off afterwards. |
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| Ready to go. |
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| Flipped & that's me in my Sunday best. |
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| I got Peter from Road Patrol to use his HIAB to lift the bow so I could get the bottom up off the ground. Choked it up with some timber so the trailer can be backed right in. |
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| The timber blocks were at just the right height for slipping the trailer in. |
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| Trailer, hot off the Sales Trailers production line. This is a customised standard model, single axle but rated at 1750kg ATM with a fold-away drawer bar. |
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| Trailer backed-in as far as it would go. |
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| Started winding the boat up, didn't get a shot of the trailer going skyward, this is a shot of the trailer as it dropped back down. |
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| On, safe and sound, big relief.... |
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| Boat is huge on the trailer but all fits as planned in the carport |
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| Sales Trailers did a custom job for me, Fulton swing-away drawer bar, can get the boat and the car inside the driveway. |
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| Winch post adjusted to fit |
Great job mate, I am enjoying watching your posts weekly as I am building a very similar boat from Steve @ CNC marine as well. Your posts give me great help in wondering what to do.
ReplyDeleteHi Tony,
ReplyDeleteAnd what not to do as well :-)
What sort of boat are you building?
I'm glad my posts are helpful, initially it started off as a way for me to keep a track & a record of the whole thing but it's great that it can also help or give others ideas.
Cheers,
Bill.
Its a 4.6m centre console (5.1 overall) very similar to yours, whats your e-mail and I will send you some pics
Deletenice - look forward to seeing them.
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Any chance of sending a few pics my way Tony. cw_carter@bigpond.com.
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Boats coming along great Bill, waiting on my 5mtr cc kit to arrive. Cant wait to get stuck into it. I'll be adding the build process on this thread- http://www.woodworkforums.com/f160/pulse-welder-170586/
That's great CW - Maybe email some pics or setup a blog as well? Probably better than posting on the forum we don't have access to pics on there unless we are members.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Bill.
PS: What's your first name?
Yeah Bill was thinking of doing a blog and just linking to to the forum. Want the process I had with welder selection included with the build.
DeleteIn any case the woodwork forum is worth checking out. Great help and plenty of information not only on welding but just about every other machinery/process you could think of.
Good to see you got some new pics up, I missed my Monday night read.:)
Cheers,
Craig
Ah, bugger it, I signed up with the forum, too many interesting things to see & read so will get to see your boat build too CW
ReplyDeleteHey Craig,
ReplyDeleteI am really impressed at what that T&R machine can do, wish I had the $$ for one even though its well priced, the pulsed MIG welds present really nicely. I would run some tests, try breaking samples and look at penetration. Use pulse mode off as your reference weld, the normal, non-pulsed 'drag' weld looks good and I know it is strong. You should make sure that whatever pulse settings you use that they will penetrate sufficiently, leave no undercuts and break-bend tests are consistent between normal welds & pulse welds. I use a normal CV machine, no pulse but it's a pretty good one but I have found that the best way to get the value out of the machine is the MIG gun. Smooth feeding when working on a bench is easy with a push only system but when welding in a tight space like a contortionist as you will, with the MIG gun bent at all sorts of angles is another thing I found. I tried push only, works perfectly on the bench, spool guns are terrible for 1.2mm 5236 so ended up with a push-pull gun which saved the entire project!
Cheers,
Bill.
Wish I could edit comments, meant to say 1.2mm 5356 in above
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