Koditten random project/boat build thread.

anyone notice anything odd with the ramp gate?

 

Looks like the metal net isn’t same width side to side.

 

Fab shop read my prints wrong. Never found it until I had the gate was put together. I noticed I was having more difficulty squaring up the frame than I normally do. Figured it was because I was in a hurry.

At this point I said "fuck it", it's my trailer, so if I can live with it, it stays built.

I did call my bud at the fab shop to put his cut team thru tape measure reading school.

We both got a laugh.

 

Bingo!

 

Something about welders...

In my shop, I keep saying the welders follow the +/- 2" rule.

So that gate is within spec.

 

Mounted a 2" square tube to the side of the trailer. There is a garage door spring inside the tube. I have a kevlar V-belt attached to the spring. The ass end of the V-belt is attached to the ramp gate. My red neck lift assist works very well.

 

I used a couple of wore out mower deck idler pulleys to guide the V-belt.

Even tho the pulleys are worn out and " growly" as hell on the mower deck, they are silent while guiding the belt.

 

I really like how the ramp gate suspends at whatever position I stop it at.

I especially like how I can lift the gate with the toe of my shoe.

No risk of blowing an "O" ring bending over to lift the ramp gate.

I'm done with being bent over...

 

Hah. Wait till you get old. And need something to pull up on.

You'll make one of those spring pulley contraptions and connect it to a deep sea fishing shoulder harness.

 

Smart thinking, works well & cheap too!

I like how the garage door spring is contained in the steel tube, when they break it is pretty violent.

 

This^

I mounted it on the passenger side since most of the time lifting/lowering occurs from the driver's side.