- Location
- Sandy, Ut
demon jeep said:
I got a 3500lb axle from Henderson with 6-5.5" pattern to match the Toyota pattern, that way I have plenty of spares...
"Project Trail Trailer" Build Up
- Thread starter cruiseroutfit
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I got a 3500lb axle from Henderson with 6-5.5" pattern to match the Toyota pattern, that way I have plenty of spares...
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
James K said:Very cool Kurt
Mabey I will have you build me some cool coil-buckets for it too...
crimsonride
huh?
- Location
- Murray
Looks cool. I want one.
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
crimsonride said:Looks cool. I want one.
FOR SALE
J/K.. but everything has a $$$
It really isn't a whole lot of money. Mine is at around $250 right now... money well spent when the ladies start checkin' it out... it has been nicknamed the "P.D."
- Location
- West Jordan
Hurry that s*** up man...I want to see the P.D. in action!cruiseroutfit said:FOR SALE
J/K.. but everything has a $$$
It really isn't a whole lot of money. Mine is at around $250 right now... money well spent when the ladies start checkin' it out... it has been nicknamed the "P.D."
James K
NO, I'm always like this
- Location
- Taylorsville, Ut
cruiseroutfit said:Mabey I will have you build me some cool coil-buckets for it too...
anytime
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
Skyetone said:
Please explain "walking of my truck"?
Are you referring to "tongue" weight?
When empty it has about 50lbs of tongue qeight, but that will surely increas as the trailer is loaded (it will never have 600lbs in it, more like 250 lbs)...
A microwave is a trail needed item
Maverick
old-school
- Location
- Anywhere, thanks to my geeky droid
cruiseroutfit said:Please explain "walking of my truck"?
Are you referring to "tongue" weight?
When empty it has about 50lbs of tongue weight, but that will surely increas as the trailer is loaded (it will never have 600lbs in it, more like 250 lbs)...
A microwave is a trail needed item
Nice twisty. What kind of hitch? (musta missed that post)
I'm guessing you've done a free-body and the statics and designed 10-20% of the weight to be on the hitch. Wow, already 50lbs, that's at least 20% if the trailer is 250lbs. 'course, as light as it is, it won't really affect handling no matter how it's loaded.
theferg
DD for Life
- Location
- Southern Utah
cruiseroutfit said:I was hoping to get some paint on it today, but we went out on "Ultimate Adventure 04' #3" last night...
Damn. I missed out on an ultimate get-smashed and drive to the middle of nowhere adventure...? I have got to get my dumbarse back down there. I'd come today if I had a place to live and work...
As to the trailer, Kurt I gotta admit, I was a little worried it might turn out gay. I've seen a few over the years that people have built out of jeep and cruiser tubs and they've been super ugly and gay lookin', but I gotta say, that thing or yours has turned out fantastic. Just don't go stickin' a frickin' bezel on the damn front of it...
-Ferg-
crimsonride
huh?
- Location
- Murray
Is a free body diagram and all the calculations really needed on such a small trailer? It looks like how you load it is going to make a big difference on the weight.
Maverick
old-school
- Location
- Anywhere, thanks to my geeky droid
crimsonride said:
it was a jokeok, a half joke, I did figure he'd have done them.
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
Maverick said:
ok, a half joke, I did figure he'd have done them.
Actually, I have the free-diagram set up... but statics is for Civil "Dirt" Engineers.... I am going to do the Dynamic reactions at the axle, make sure I have no axle-wrap problems...
Maverick
old-school
- Location
- Anywhere, thanks to my geeky droid
cruiseroutfit said:Actually, I have the free-diagram set up... but statics is for Civil "Dirt" Engineers.... I am going to do the Dynamic reactions at the axle, make sure I have no axle-wrap problems...
Ok, and where are you in the program???
Um, mechs do their fair share of statics and strengths...even more so than civ's. It all starts with statics, that's the base.
Brett (I play a civ on TV...it pays the bills)
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
Maverick said:
I am taking my last 3 class's for my associates, and just got accepted to the U's program...
I am taking Dynamics II right now...
I actually like Statics myself, I was just following the setiment of our Dynamics professor... on day one of Dynamics I he had all the civil students raise their hands...
He then told them..
"Do you know why you are taking this class?"
He then replied...
"So you know, that you don't know... if it doesn't equal zero, call a Mechanical Engineer"
Another good one was our Manufacturing instructor. We were discussing the units of tolerance, when he said, "the mech. eng. unit of tolerance is the thousanth of an inch... the civil eng. unit, is about five feet"
Maverick
old-school
- Location
- Anywhere, thanks to my geeky droid
cruiseroutfit said:
very nice. Ya, I loved dynamics, that's what my emphasis was, I just kept taking dynamics classes. Haven't used them at all, but I still liked them.
congrats on getting accepted.
crimsonride
huh?
- Location
- Murray
cruiseroutfit said:He then told them..
"Do you know why you are taking this class?"
He then replied...
"So you know, that you don't know... if it doesn't equal zero, call a Mechanical Engineer"
That sounds like Francis.
crimsonride
huh?
- Location
- Murray
cruiseroutfit said:Actually, I have the free-diagram set up... but statics is for Civil "Dirt" Engineers.... I am going to do the Dynamic reactions at the axle, make sure I have no axle-wrap problems...
......nerd.
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
crimsonride said:
Yup, what classes do you have with him?
I have MEEN2040,2050&2350 and he is also our ASME and A&A advisor... so I see plenty of him