Steelroamer wrote:here is the first time I used it. I have since reworked the ramp and the approach so the angle is much less and the trailer does not drag!!
Steelroamer wrote:here is the first time I used it. I have since reworked the ramp and the approach so the angle is much less and the trailer does not drag!!
Well, so much for my effort at embedding your video.
I'm wondering why the extra vertical strengthening of the tongue? That's the part that is making it problematic with hitting the ventral fin on the Maule, and I'm not sure it's necessary. You have next to no tongue weight, as the airplane sits entirely on the carriage, right? I can see the need for the horizontal strengthening, since you have to steer on soft ground. But it seems as if the vertical strengthening is superfluous. Just my thoughts, FWIW.
It is hard to tell in the pictures but the tongue had been bent before and who ever repaired it put it on so I just left it there. It seems everything I own looks a little goofy (as evidenced by the plane I fly) so it just seemed wrong to cut it off!! I am sure you are right though and that it would not hurt to remove it.
Sorry to bring back an old thread - does anyone know of anyone building these?
Dan Older at floathaven has one, I believe it was made from a company that's now out of business from Oregon. It worked reasonably well. I'm looking for a Dolly
There is or at least used to be a bunch of float planes on the ramp at Renton KRNT, most sitting on home-made lift trailers. Good place to get some ideas.
Consider a notch or some sort of post’s/piece of retaining block of some sort to keep the front spreader from slipping off the cradle forward when going down hill/. If that cradle is wet or slick with morning frost in the fall it looks like it could slip off.
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