[AT] Walt new Truck PICS

[Vaughn Miller]

I have a trailer built this way.  Here is a pic for those having trouble visualizing

http://home.messiah.edu/~vmiller/trailer.jpg

Vaughn Miller
Dillsburg Pa	

>>> "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net> 7/28/06 8:33 PM >>>
Slipping on wheel wells would turn you off on them...   
<(^¿^)>
	Actually I failed to indicate that I was thinking more in 
the neighborhood of 3 or 4 inches high...   <(^¿^)>
	I have an old pair here that I saved off of an old dualie 
implement trailer I bought. In fact I bought it mostly 
because it had those wheel wells on it. I was wanting them 
for a truck I was working on but never used them. They were 
heavy diamond step plate and maybe 3" + tall with a very 
gradual curve. Three + inches is not a lot but then you get 
the thickness of the wood floor being not there too. That 
makes about 5" total which don't seem like much but on 
truck beds and other places sometimes a few inches makes a 
big difference.   <(^¿^)>
	I once owned an old Dodge farm truck with a hoist (1953, I 
think) that had a nice steel bed floor but it was smooth 
and if you hauled a bunch of grain it got so slick it was 
really hard to stand up on if wet.
	I was thinking a little about a couple of school bus 
chassis car and tractor haulers I have seen when I asked 
Walt about the possible slant bed. I have seen a couple 
that just used a couple of wide "I" beams (on their side to 
make a "U" channel on top) instead of a full floor. On one 
Scott and I saw some years ago one beam was fixed and the 
other was rigged so it could be slid sideways to adjust for 
different tread width.
	I love looking at folks haulers at shows. 



--
"farmer"

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be 
continually fearing you will make one."
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)


Refurbished Shopsmith's
Good used SPT's
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Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net 



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