Lang's new Mack toy carrier

If you can extend the flat part of the tray but do it towards the back. Try to flatten out the sharp bump by making it with 2 angles rather than one. The estra piece for the extra angle may allow the tray to reach further forward.

If that is no good I was able to slightly round off the sharp bump on Lorry which helped a lot for laoding a car and then the bent up ramps also helped that issue.

Lang wrote: I now have a major problem.

The flat section of the tray is 800 mm too short for the chassis. I stuffed up by having the cook hold the tape while I measured.

She now thinks I am a bloody idiot for wasting money on a tray too short. Should I let this just be another black jellybean in our marital lolly jar or tell her I have my eye on a Hiab crane to fill the gap between the headboard and the cab. I think the idiot plan is the best as the crane is some way off and crane vs new curtains budget debate can be postponed as long as possible.

Lang

Obviously the fair Mrs. Ell doesn't have a login for this page. :whistle:
Why were you holding the dumb end of the tape, Lang?

Can you dock 500-800 off the end of the chassis and move the back crossmember the relivant distance?

There is a bloke in Tamworth that wrecks/repairs trucks who has heaps of Hiab and similar cranes laying around his property.

I can fin his number if you want.

Sorry

My post seems to have been misread. I knew it was short right from the start with the crane in mind, just when she was helping with the tape to position the U- bolts it became public knowledge. She is very good about this stuff but I thought it was better to run with her miscalculation assumption rather than say there is another $3,000 to go on top of the new truck and new tray spent this week.

Next month it will be a stand alone transaction so won't look so bad. I know, what a weak prick but happy wife happy life.

I have already found a way to cut the bearers at the tray angle and bend it up around 7 degrees with about 2 hours work.

If anyone has one of Paul's $1-2,000 cranes that does not take over a metre of chassis length let me know.

Lang

Doing the car transport, the "bump" in the beaver tail is always a mighty PITA. Same on your dropdeck trailer, the rotten truck or whatever it is you are putting up there nearly always drags it's guts on the sharp corner...
We solved this my making a very long and gentle "two stage" beaver, then made the ramps longer and extendable -slid the "base" of the ramps up under the tray, whilst the "up" part pf the ramps stayed upright. So dropping the ramps could be just a simple drop like a normal beaver, or if you had a low car,, you could also slide out/ extend the ramps from under the tray, and then they pivoted down from about half way along the ramps. (I'll try to find a photo)
But I don't reckon this would work for you lang as your ramps look way too heavy?
And I agree with the "locker box" in front of the tray- that would be bloody handy, make a tautliner style cover for them, chuck all your junk in there!

I am thinking that I will fiddle with auxiliary wheel ramps to ease the angle. We did this in the Army when we got the Nomads and the tails were too high for the hangar doors. Made up a long ramp in the middle about a foot high under the door entrance. When the nose wheel went up this ramp the tail went down under the door and when the nose wheel came off the other end of the ramp the tail came up to normal level inside the hangar
The blocks will not have to be too high as they will not go right across allowing the exhaust etc to go between them.

Lang,I would say that Hayseed and Prodrive between them, have the answers for Froggie Dog,.

Qld Maroon? how about French Racing Blue? (joke)

I know your making fun of me but
Cheap cranes are out there

Dunno how much you wanna loft or how far
But with a few moments of googling heres two
I know of another just up the road

www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1493604177476013/



Paul

Paul

Not making fun of you at all! I know there are cranes at that price come up from time to time. I appreciate your input.

Ideally it will be a self contained oil tank with legs - basically a drop on unit. I have the ex-forklift electric (like a starter motor) driven pump.

A couple of tons at 2m would be good. Anything larger than this requires chassis frames, large oil tanks and serious work to fit. I also do not want to give up more than a metre of chassis, preferably less.

That facebook marketplace one in Victoria looks spot on. If it was in Qld I would be on the road.

Lang