1324 kg according to my crane hook scales.
Probably pretty close.
The trailer is rated to 1400kg aggregate so we have a little leeway.
The rule is between 10 to 15% on the tow ball.
It's possible here I believe to get an upgrade based on towball weight.
That would be 1400kg plus the 10 or 15% on the ball.
Weight was fairly even side to side 579kg and 587.4kg.with 157.6kg on the ball.
Move the car back an inch? would bring it under 15%.
Of course the Dodge handled the towball weight just fine.
What this means is I can go ahead and fit a rear lift up door.
It will balance out a little better and still be within weight limits.
Are they that retentive here?
Sadly yes.
Aaaaah - Bureacracy! Said no-one ever.
Illegitemi non carborundum est!
Thought I'd run the sidecar up into the trailer.
Discovered that oiled timber is a serious hazard.
1st attempt it stalled as the front wheel hit the level deck.
That's when it all went screwy.
Grabbed the front and rear brake only for it to slide back down and not straight.
Lucky the ramps allowed for enough sideways movement.
Rolled back, straightened up and had another go.
I suppose I was being over cautious and didn't hit hard enough.
But when there's only a few inches leeway.
Wasn't keen on smacking my throttle hand.
So being late I called it quits.
Winching is an option I suppose.
But something non slip maybe the way to go.
Once stopped there was not enough traction to drive it up.
Haven't needed to run it up but was looking at holiday/camping/travel options.
Probably have a more serious run at it at some time just to prove my point.
Funny running a hundred year old car up is a piece of cake.
The things we do for fun.
Bruce, on the two oiled timber ramps....either screw into place, or nail them.....a series of 1" wide x 12" long....1/4" thick slats...that are secured to the oiled timber ramps about 6" apart, so it acts as climbing stays. I did that on the ramp going up into my chicken coop, just so the chickens would have a traction hold on getting up the ramp.
Paint stirring sticks do the same thing. Any wood that is 1/8" to 1/4" thick.....and about 1" wide....cut to the length that your oiled timber ramps are wide.
This gives the affect of adding "knobbies" to your oiled timber ramps, so the sidecar bike rear wheel can use them to climb the ramps.
Cost....nuttin'...as you already have that scrap wood laying around.
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On the ramps Miles. As they serve as seating part time I will probably wash the oil off then coat them in resin (fibreglass) Along with some blue metal dust, (cracker dust we call it) then I may not slip head over tea kettle in my (thongs) flip flops.
Anyway another engine from 1903.
The Brown.
So it continues.
Note a sidecar picture.
Bruce, if I may suggest a better way to tackle those ramps....remove the oil that has now permeated the ramp boards, might need to use MEK to do that (Methyl Ethyl Keytone), and then paint the ramp boards with DECKING paint, that already has gritty sand mixed in with the paint.
Some hardware stores sell it already mixed, in 31 different colours (like Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream...31 different flavours), or you can mix some yourself.
If you coat those ramp boards with fiberglass resin, even with the blue metal dust on top, they will forever be slick, and worse in the rain.
NIX the idea of fiberglass resin....use a decking paint, and it will be 132% easier to maintain, and repaint, when/if necessary.
Also for bums sitting on the ramp boards when used as seating part time, the fiberglass resin coating will attract the sun's heat, making sitting on these ramp boards a scorching experience, whereas the decking paint with sand mixed in will keep bums in place, and no bum shall be scorched.
Oh, and can the nose of that Dusting sidecar be lowered 5.75 degrees, or is that designed that way to slide over roadkill Roo's, rather than drag the roadkill Roo down the red dust road ?
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Probably.... I say...... probably good advice on the ramps.
The dusting sidecar?
I think that was how they did them and I was looking it over on the bike run last week.
It's probably for getting over Wombats.
Their solid suckers.
Speaking of Hudsons the nephew ran a fastest of 236mph (gps only) at Lake Gairdner in South Australia last week.
pitchers, please. my old 1950 pacemaker with a smallblock chevy couldnt do that, but it wasnt through lack of trying.
that is fucking fast.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1011881257657870
I bit of research needed.
They ran a small block Chev 1st.
Did over 200mph but they aren't happy running 9000rpm for that long.
Or making 1000+ hp.
So a big block with small mods.....
Not sure if this works.
But a tractor I drove 45 years ago.
Chain clearing new land.
My nephew fired it up after all those years.
It had been in the weather for 50 years or so.
Exciting moment when the throttle? stuck open.
duck://player/eYmeOFdN8M4
Same nephew in the speed Hudson.
Dad was a shocker for not keeping stuff in shed's.
Triple trees have been brought from the back burner to the middle burner.
Hopefully soon on the front burner.
A mini drill mill popped up on Facebook the other day.
Ask was about the same price as an air ticket to Seattle .
After my recent scare in a roundabout I'm a bit more motivated to change the steering geometry.
It was lack of leverage I tell you....
Not excessive speed or even a..a ...aa.... age.
So here it is.
After getting a few hundred off the price.
It's plenty big enough for triple tree's.
And the trailer continues.
The engine is from my mates MGB.
Had it out to fit a new clutch.
Then did a few 50yr scheduled maintenance things.
You know it's serious when the Willy Wagtail weighs in.
