There are days when beating the heck out of something with a hammer is just the right thing to do! Very therapeutic,
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Patsy was/is my all time favourite. I remember when that plane came down, March 5, 1963.
Ha! Yeah, beating on something gets frustrations out sometimes, Lorna!-LOL!
I have two all-time favorites. Male and female. Patsy and Marty Robbins. the plane crash was 61 years ago but her music was timeless!
Doug I really like the way your trailer is turning out. Just looks handy. You do good work!
Thanks Chris! Hopefully I will be in good enough shape when the weather smooths out a little. Got a couple of possible surgeries coming up. I don't want anything scheduled until the second half of April though. Loree and I are probably going to do a quick road trip to go to a race middle of the month.
Yes Doug. The Beatles were a bit strange in the end. Roger Miller was great. King of the road song has stuck with me ever since it came out. I had my bike and a transistor radio on it listening to King of the Road.
Nice work on the trailer. Those rounded corners are great for pulling the trailer through the woods. Square corners would get fetched up on the trees and the rounded ones don’t.
Noel
When the Beatles started turning to being drug influenced, it made my liking for Country and Western increase! I did like a lot of 70's rock but into the 80's, just pretty much became a country junkie!
Good point on those round corners, Noel! Thanks! I don't have any woods or brush to pull the trailer through on our puny little acre but the trees around the perimeter on the South and West side need some dead branches cut off. Won't be able to reach them all but will try to get what I can. I might make a stab at trying to make one of those corners to replace the one I robbed off the small trailer.
Doug I pulled a couple of pics from GTtalk of my trailer build about seven years ago of the chainsaw scabbard and my tilt lock. It might give you an idea.
Great work, Jim! I think I remember that build thread. Obviously, I'm not hauling firewood, and either one of those trailers are too small for tree waste. My plan is to have the tools in the trailer and have the dump hauler pickup out where I'm working too. throw the branches right into the pickup rather than handling them twice and not making so many trips as well. Then take them to the dump. Dumping tree waste is free. Probably should build a scabbard to hold the gas saw to keep it from sliding around in the box.
I went ahead and got a good start on that tilt latch today already before I saw your picture. Not quite the same materials as the other trailer but same idea. Like you, I try to build this stuff out of junk that is on hand. I like having something I can reach from the tractor seat to dump and it latches itself when the box is pushed down. That's the main reason I wanted a latch similar to the other one.
Still need to drill a couple more holes for the return spring, and thinking of an idea for the lever to pull the latch. Dug this little shifter out of another bucket of junk I need to go through and I may cut it up to make it work. I do haul some gravel and dirt in garden trailers to so the dump mechanism is something needed.
Probably will tinker with it some more tomorrow.
DAC
. To heck with the Beatles, your theme song..."Trailer For Sale or Rent....."
