Project: Build trailer to haul the GL1200 ASPY

[DaveKamp]

And you may wonder... WHAT is this for? Well, you'll invariably see in the background pictures to come, that there's a construction program afoot at my place... I'm in process of renovating my workshop space. The construction process will require moving things, lifting things, and assembling things, and the ground conditions that will occur in the process, will NOT be suitable for my forklift truck to traverse- it's simply too heavy, and unsuitable tires for the ground surfaces I'll be dealing with. I'll also need to have good, solid working space at elevated positions to assemble the steelwork, hang electrical conduits and plumbing, installing the overhead cranes, and other tasks. This machine will become an elevated work platform, and a straddle-hoist, and a variety of other things necessary for the process. I'll be putting a tarp over it, and parking it over excavation areas, with lights under it, to provide protection from the elements and illumnation while I do groundwork for posts, redirect subterranian electricals, and other stuff.

Yeah, it's strange, but it's for good reasons. I'll finish the other side this week, and mebbie do other aspects towards the weekend, but next up for the trailer is the tongue, and the suspension pivot bracket...

 

[joedrum]

Wow this is all kool ..being a farmer ..I always love big equipment...lol it takes big tools and muscle to play in this sport lol

 

[Two85s]

It sure must be nice to have a well equipped shop!! :builder:

 

[DaveKamp]

Two85s » Today, 4:53 am[/url]":2wh4g99b]
It sure must be nice to have a well equipped shop!! :builder:

Well, I've got plenty of equipment... the shop environment is still a bit rough, but I'm working on it. This red thing will be part of the equipment that allow me to improve the actual shop buildings... in the meantime, there's some genuine challenges... I just find a way to make due... :roll:

 

[DaveKamp]

Did the other side tonight...

outriggers welded on...

Grating in place...

Note- battery and hydraulic tank are detached- the brackets overhung the grating enough to obstruct installation of walkway, so I disengaged them. Gonna relocate both... batteries more than hydraulic tank... stay tuned...

With the crop-protector removed from around the muffler, there's a whole lot more visible space beneath. Gonna do some modification to this end a bit... and the other as well...

And got a color coat started on the bandsaw

 

[mcgovern61]

Love that band saw! :yes:

 

[saganaga]

joedrum » September 4th, 2019, 4:42 am[/url]":2uf0bnbi]
Wow this is all kool ..being a farmer ..I always love big equipment...lol it takes big tools and muscle to play in this sport lol

I thought all farming took was being a glutton for long, hard days of work and poor economic security. :BigGrin:

 

[GTC@MSAC]

Scared me there for a second. I thought the tractor was going to be grafted onto the bike trailer, for some reason, lol!

 

[DaveKamp]

I thought all farming took was being a glutton for long, hard days of work and poor economic security. :BigGrin:

I think the wisdom goes something like:

"If a man wants to lose lots of money fast, he goes to a casino or day-trades on the stock market... if he wants to lose it all, fast, he goes into Farming..."

That being said- I'm no a farmer... I'm a content individual of rural community independance. My environment is exclusive of unnecessary governance, no 'homeowner's association' to burdon me with their expectation of mailbox color, no municipal idiocy, just a gravel road, with crickets and stars at night. We have a henhouse, which is currently vacant. Yes, I have tractors... only the smallest ones are younger than me, and not by much. Nobody tells me I can't grind a piece of metal on sunday night.

 

[DaveKamp]

...love that saw...

--Yeah, it's a piece of beautiful history. It's also a still-incredibly-viable machine. It'll get it set up to be forklift-portable and... at least for now... self-powered, so it can be stored easlily, but brought out for use as-needed.

Scared me there for a second. I thought the tractor was going to be grafted onto the bike trailer, for some reason, lol!

hee hee... that'd be fascinating... but no. I've got a different trailer-grafting project that I haven't done yet... we'll save that for some other day, some other forum...

 

[joedrum]

Lol ...yes farming completely a communist market where you are told what you will be paid for your stuff ...doesn’t say much for a free market country when the biggest product produced is taken from the producers ...it’s actually a land grab agenda to take land away from the American people that actually pioneered and cultivated the land to begin with ...this has been going over a 100 year ..strait up anti free market system and theft by government and the banks ..flatout criminal land grab...and really not a laughing matter to me one who lost there land in intimate domain legal crime ....

 

[brianinpa]

mcgovern61 » Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:49 pm[/url]":11z6u5fb]
Love that band saw! :yes:

Ditto!

 

[saganaga]

DaveKamp » Yesterday, 4:17 am[/url]":eowpokg1]

That being said- I'm no a farmer... I'm a content individual of rural community independance. My environment is exclusive of unnecessary governance, no 'homeowner's association' to burdon me with their expectation of mailbox color, no municipal idiocy, just a gravel road, with crickets and stars at night. We have a henhouse, which is currently vacant. Yes, I have tractors... only the smallest ones are younger than me, and not by much. Nobody tells me I can't grind a piece of metal on sunday night.

I probably violate any HOA covenant a few times a week. Thankfully my neighborhood doesn't have any. We still manage to survive and prosper. Even as city folk.

I have a farming background, but never farmed myself. Father grew up on a farm, and has cattle in his retirement. Got some family members who farmed or still farm. And I've seen the records of those who farmed or gardened for food. (One, which is sadly hilarious, is a diary entry from someone who visited my many-times-great-grandfather, who was living on the frontier, and in the visitor's eyes, was peculiarly proud to be able to offer potatoes. Kind of funny, until you dig deeper and discover records of the same ancestor who was used to seeing scurvy in the spring. Potatoes are one of the foods that provide vitamin C. But I digress...)

 

[DaveKamp]

I probably violate any HOA covenant a few times a week. Thankfully my neighborhood doesn't have any. We still manage to survive and prosper. Even as city folk.

Of all the uneducated and unintelligent people complaining about things, you will find that all of them... and I mean ALL... live within urban environment, and yes, 'Eminent Domain' is a serious problem, Joe. People, both those elected, and the non-affected masses who elect them, fail to realize the moral gravity of their actions. People who live in subdivisions, condos, and high-rise hotels generally have no concept of what 'land' really is. They see it as something a developer turns into a place they can keep-up-with-the-Joneses for five years... not as a method of sustainance (I almost said 'profitable', but...) for a family, and a future. They'll happily pass all sorts of stormwater-runoff rules while draining and paving over two-hundred acres of watershed for a shopping center, ultimately resulting in a ditch full of litter while at the same time blanket-blaming farms for waterway contamination... and when they decide that the 'public good' requires another city expansion, they can just wipe out all the rural families around. They look at an old barn, and a silage tower, and think it's 'nostalgic', and fail to realize that it's not an old building, it's a MACHINE.

And 'wipe out' really isn't sufficient. Let's say a man has 400 acres, mix of timber and tillable, with a diversified production program including beef, pork, poultry, and grain. There's enough production to sustain his family, and enough extra, over every several years, to build up a combination of college savings for 3 kids, and a little towards retirement each year. At the end of his career, he's paid for the college, and mebbie half the retirement. If his circumstances are well, he could sell the land, and live out his days in a nursing home. If his children were so inclined, he could pass the farm off to THEM, and they'd pick up the operation and continue, because the 'machinery' of the farm (land, buildings, etc., ) were already set up for continuing operation. Because of the nature of agricultural work, taking even just a section of land (like, putting a road through the middle) is akin to carving a pathway through someone's aorta... it's total destruction of a substantial and intricate program. To a farmer, taking land is an offense on the same realm as murdering their family, past, present, and future.

Our great great grandfathers didn't just walk in here, drive stakes in the ground, and plant beans... studying the history of the farmstead I now call mine, reveals that they came here, made crude shelters, and planted gardens, while watering their few animals in the creek at the bottom of the hill. At the top of the hill, they built a small barn, which they sheltered their livestock, and themselves for the first few winters. They dug a well, that once pumping, would gravity feed the barn for dairy, then they built a milkhouse, a stable, and a hog-house... then they built the first farmhouse. They built these buildings at the same time they were cutting trees, and pulling out stumps. They got cleared, tillable land on one side, and buildings on the other...

 

[dan filipi]

My yard and house are in constant violation of any HOA rules. To hell with that HOA crap, already too many rules to live by everyday. I would never move into a house with their own "government" that pushed more rules on me, and required paying them to do so Lol.

 

[joedrum]

Yes ..that’s right ..this action stopped over a 100yrs of family farm and replaced the land with paper that was then taxed agains and within a few short yrs nothing left ..in our case they made a man made lake that wipe out three towns and about 30,000 acres of the best farmland the area had ...so boats and recreation and ran by the department of natural resources...there was absolutely nothing natural about it ..

 

[DaveKamp]

...I would never move into a house with their own "government" that pushed more rules on me, and required paying them to do so Lol.

AMEN!!! :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

 

[DaveKamp]

Okay, so I've been fighting other fires, but here's a little progress-view...

The tilting function of the (former boat) trailer arrangement was simple... and when I snipped the dude apart, I did it carefully, for purpose of saving anything that I could re-use later.

Now, I can't exactly slip this in and magically have it do everything I want... the end geometry simply wasn't close enough to do so, but this is excellent materials and lots of food-for-thought...

 

[DaveKamp]

Okay, a few more progress pictures... the swing-axle center bracket.

The wheel tray 'backbone' is made from an 8" square steel post. You'll recall prior picture that I actually CUT the sides of a damaged post, to get the trough section. I'm making this bracket out of leftover pieces from that event. Here's a piece that's in an undamaged portion of the half.

And my general plan is to do something like this:

But make it wide enough so that I can slip it over (actually, under) the backbone...

But since it's same width, it clearly won't fit, right?

 

[DaveKamp]

So I arbitrarily sawed down the approximate center...

Then placed it atop another unscathed section (as a form)

Then found a piece of scrap that was about perfect filler

Then clamped it all together

and welded it.