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Thread: Plan B trailer build
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22nd June 2010, 01:36 PM #31Member
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Now licensed, tare weight came in at exactly 500kg's, I'm really happy with that, that was my most hopeful estimate. No problem licensing it looking rusty, the inspector even entered the colour as silver. Have started pulling it apart again now to get it carted to the galvanisers.
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19th July 2010, 10:38 PM #32Member
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photo of it back from the galvanisers
they drilled enought holes in it, have to buy a packet of sinkers now.
Guess I should put the costing spreadsheet up too now that I think all the money going out is finished. (i hope)
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19th July 2010, 11:16 PM #33Member
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Final Trailer Costing
Costing
I'm putting this up to scare others off
Plan A trailer used for side metal 200
75x50x4 RHS 110
100x50x2 RHS 100
2400x1500x2 plate 110
74x40 PFC 77
25x3 Flat bar 16.5
rope rail pipe 33.68
2400x1200x12 CD Structural ply 56.91
LED lights 55
LED number plate light 30.09
Springs 106.72
Axle 123.12
Brakes/hubs 343.29
axle saddle (2) 4.972
drawbar pins (2) 23.034
Hyland hitch 346.5
hand brake lever 60.34
hand brake kit 31.72
safety chain 18.48
galvanising 830.27
seal (9m) 48.02
catches(4) 52.36
towball hi rise 18.48
red reflector (2) 2.44
orange reflector (4) 4.88
white reflector (2) 2.44
stainless bolts (48) 3.6624
stainless nuts (96) 12.3168
stainless washers (48) 1.2576
Mig wire 36.3
Mig gas (3 bottles) 264 , actually used about 2.001
bottle rental (9 months) 83.70
weighbridge 11
inspection fee 83
rego 132.2
travel permit 20.2
TOTAL 3453.883
OUCH
(how do you make tabs work???)
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3rd August 2010, 07:51 PM #34Member
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finished
finished photo
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5th August 2010, 07:25 PM #35Wood and Metal Enthusiast
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Looks great Franklin
Cheers
UglyDanLive life to the fullest, you have to go big and do everything with your all or why do it at all?
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29th August 2010, 07:03 AM #36.
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29th August 2010, 06:21 PM #37TOTAL 3453.883
I was especially interested in the cost of galvanising.
Should do the job for many years.www.lockwoodcanvas.com.au
I will never be the person who has everything, not when someone keeps inventing so much cool new stuff to buy.
From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".
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3rd September 2010, 07:25 PM #38Member
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Wasn't the cheapest quote for galvanising, but was the closest bath, so I argued them down to close to the cheapest quote.
costed weight was 342kg @ $2.20/kg (+GST)
Funny thing is I'm now trying to sell my 7x4 for less than the cost of the galvanising.
Of course the unfunny thing is that somewhere along the build I lost 20mm of width and 100mm of length and now the boat don't fit. I reckon it shrank in the galvanising bath.
and I still haven't tried the camper top on it to see if it fits.
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5th September 2010, 08:23 AM #39Of course the unfunny thing is that somewhere along the build I lost 20mm of width and 100mm of length and now the boat don't fit. I reckon it shrank in the galvanising bath.www.lockwoodcanvas.com.au
I will never be the person who has everything, not when someone keeps inventing so much cool new stuff to buy.
From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".
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6th September 2010, 12:16 AM #40Member
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D'oh is right, particulary as I was continually telling myself to check the boat fits, but with all the pressures of freeing the carport back up, it never happened.
I reckon it gives me the ideal opportunity to build a boat to fit the trailer now, of course I would have to buy a mig that could do aluminium (the mig I built the trailer with is borrowed, must return it one day, but the gas bottle is still full).
Somewhere along the way the conflicts between making the camper fit on top (which I still haven't tried yet), the boat inside and the floor out of a single sheet of ply made it all come unstuck.
In reality I will probably cut the excess vertical off the back (which are there for the camper to mount to) which will allow the boat to fit in width wise (as it is only the gunnels that stop it, and they are higher than the trailer sides) and make a bracket that will allow the front tailgate to be fixed at an angle to give me the additional length I need.
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7th September 2010, 11:03 PM #41
Gee lost count of how many times I test fitted with the boat when building the boat camper trailer. In hindsight still would have done a couple of things different, but the boat fitted upon completion, so am content (for the moment)
www.lockwoodcanvas.com.au
I will never be the person who has everything, not when someone keeps inventing so much cool new stuff to buy.
From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".
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