Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #50 – November 01, 2013, 06:23:21 pm Quote from: MR B2 – November 01, 2013, 06:06:10 pmIt may look scary, But I have been building this stuff all my life, For me its a breeze, I have 3 inch side rails on the ramps, the wheels cannot slide off sideways, There is no way I can get the balance point of the coach accurately, so its trial and error,At a guess, The balance point would be about 2 feet in front of the rear wheels, But I also have the Genny and the big Gas Tank out, So the balance point has moved a lot, Its all in the rear at the moment, Behind the rear wheels,It wont lift untill the coach is fully on the ramp backwards, It needs another metre on the start end, Then it will be right to go, It cant lift with the extra metre on it,There is no such thing as cant in my vocabulary,Impossibilitys, after lunch,Miracles, Tomorrow morning,Its all slow work, Take my time, A lot of thought, Not damaging my Coach is number one priority,The height off the ground is just magic, I can work under there with plenty of room and safely, The bumper Bar works well, I had my temporary wheels G clamped on the ramp and hit it with the Coach, The 75 mm RHS vertical handle was crushed and bent over, No damage to the Bumper, A pit is not suitable for me here, Snake and spider trap, I have five different types of venomous snakes that reside here with me, and red backs are every where,It looks like a V2 bomb ready for launch, I might declare war on some one, HahahahahahaKeep in mind, That I dont have any one to help me, I do it all on my own, There is no one around to assist me when I am putting the coach on the ramps, or moving the ramps, or any thing else I do,So I have to think it all out before I do any thing, Any thing goes wrong, I am in deep Doo Doo, I keep the mobile very handy, and very close, Just in case, HahahahaIts getting there, Very happy with it, And its safe,While it was bogged, the motors oil filter was digging into the ground and plowing it, Lucky that it did not get a hole in it,Or snap it off, Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #51 – November 01, 2013, 06:30:56 pm Brian, I also agree with John H on the fact your doing great, My thoughts go to the fact that one can do anything with very little, and most can not do anything with everything. So be safe and enjoy, we are with you.Cheers Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #52 – November 01, 2013, 07:22:48 pm OK, Miracle Man ... just so we don't go reading your obituary!! I guess if you are busy banging and dragging and welding and revving, you are scaring the snakes away. They probably all think you are crazy and will go to the neighbor's house ... wherever that is! Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #53 – November 01, 2013, 11:52:53 pm HI Brian, Don't give up yet. Just extend the main frame another 12.5 feet (or so) from the pivot point to the front tire stops. Much safer than backing coach on. Everything is so simple when giving advice, compared to doing the actual work. lol.Take care, have fun,LynnD '01 GV Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #54 – November 02, 2013, 02:12:13 am This is what it is supposed to do, It did it so easy with the car on, Just gently lowered itself down,But the weight in the back end of my Coach just wont let it happen, Hahahahahaha,We have ways of sorting this out, Hahahahaha, we havent finished yet,Its OK Carol, I have spent a lifetime in tall buildings, The ones with out any thing but the steel, I am the Idiot at the top making the sparks fall down, I Remake the steel in the air to fit, Hanging off the Crane,I make and repair all the big Earth moving machinery, and the Platforms they sit on,This to me, is a Toy, Its very small, And I am extremely carefull,But thank you for your concern, But in my case, Unfounded, I really do try to think of any thing that can go wrong before I do it, Then a bit at a time, then get out and have a look before proceeding, It works, Keeps me in one peice, Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #55 – November 02, 2013, 09:25:28 am Brian,Why not back the coach up the ramp? It would act like the car with its weight in the front. Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #56 – November 02, 2013, 10:50:33 am Quote from: Michael j – November 02, 2013, 09:25:28 amBrian,Why not back the coach up the ramp? It would act like the car with its weight in the front.Yes, it's going to have to be backed at some point anyway. Plus, reverse is your lowest gear. Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #57 – November 04, 2013, 06:45:09 pm Brian's ramp/lift photo makes me think "Australian Space Program brings luxury shuttle to the launch pad". Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #58 – November 04, 2013, 10:32:28 pm If you have to travel. It might as well be in style, Michelle,My Coach doesn't have any problems driving up the ramp, Its got plenty of grunt for that, Its just a bit squeezy with both my feet on one side, brake and accelerator at the same time, and head out the window, These are the times, I wish I had some one to help, Just to guide me underneath, I cant see any thing under there,Its getting there, It is now in its final resting place, Extend the floating end, another 1500 mm, Perfect,I can work on the coach then, More steel to be brought up from down the bank, Its buried in the growth down there,The tyre stoppers are too high, The levelors just touch, and wont go over it, I have to lower them, The tyre stoppers, down 3 inches, perfect, every thing I own will go on the ramps now,And its a nice place to park it out of the way, Gives me back my front yard, And my View, You can see where I get the steel from, down and over the bank,In front of my lounge, the Coach blocks out my view,Thats a piccy through my lounge windows, With out the Coach in the way,The Coach is sitting just back from the top edge of that staircase, So you can see how steep it is,It took over 20 years to put all that dirt there, It came from all over, Mainly its old road base that was torn up for new roads, It compacts well, and wont move, Plus it was compacted 18 inches at a time, So its packed in layers, Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #59 – November 05, 2013, 11:27:11 am Brian, did you build that stairs all in one piece and then roll it over the hill and put your lower legs on. Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #60 – November 05, 2013, 11:45:09 am Brian,Got to say, I have not seen many stairs with wheels. But what a great way to install them down the hill, after a build somewhere else. Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #61 – November 10, 2013, 01:44:35 am Quote from: Jimmy Freytag – November 05, 2013, 11:27:11 amBrian, did you build that stairs all in one piece and then roll it over the hill and put your lower legs on.Yes, It was the only way I could do it with out a crane, I just havent got around to cutting the wheels of it, Leveled it all up, Then dug the holes, Welded the legs on, then back filled with concrete, I didnt have a tractor then, Hahahahaaha,The stair case was originally in the middle of my yard, in front of the house, going down the bank, I pulled it out of there, as the new dirt arrived and it would now be buried under all that dirt,I built it on top of the bank, the spun it around sideways and pushed it over the bank chained to my F350, It weighed 4.2 ton, Loaded, So the staircase couldnt get away down the hill, Hahahahaha, It all came from a building site, it was the Plant platform on the roof of a building we were demolishing and rebuilding a new supermarket over, around, beside, Etc, Etc, of a supermarket that was fully operational, and we could not upset their trading in any way,All the old steel that came out went into the scrap bin, Most of the grid mesh was promised to the other workers, But I still had enough to just make the stairs,Bit of extra fuel in the truck to get it home, Pittance,, electricity for the grinders and welders, Mig wire and Gas, A bit of my free time, 4 bags of Quickcrete, One very cheap staircase, Maybe a Hundred Bucks, tops,When you do every thing your self, You learn to think things out, to get them up, Heavy lifting by myself has whiskers on it, Hahahahaha, Two chain blocks with an 8 metre drop, I can put any thing any where, onsite, up to about 2 ton, after that they can get a crane, Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #62 – November 20, 2013, 01:43:48 am After scraping the oil filter along the ground, Now scraping the bottom of the Radiator on the ramp,Its quite amazing how a dip in your yard effects the Bottom of the Coach, I kept getting bogged, A slight dip and the motor cage digs in, Fortunately, No Damage any where,Backing it up a foot at a time to make sure it would be all clear underneath,Its now on the Ramp and it works great, Gentle lowering down onto the four legs,I may even have Keiths 1987 36 foot Grand Villa in My front yard next week, He wants to take out his Gas Tank, Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #63 – November 20, 2013, 11:51:09 am Looks great Brian and now easy to work on. Maybe you can make some money with it servicing??John H Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #64 – November 30, 2013, 05:50:14 pm The Ramps work perfectly now,While its its on there, I am installing 5 X 9 KG bottles of Propane in the place where the big gas tank came out of,That big gas tank is not allowed here, So its out, and the 5 small ones are in, Its not quite finished yet, But its getting there, I am lining the whole lot with 3 mm sheet steel. So it will be basically fire proof for a short while, Enough time to put the fire out any way,,With the big gas tank and gas out, and the Genny out, at the moment, I have a chronic lack of weight problem, The nose sits up in the air, Quite a lot, and gets a bit bouncy on bumpy roads, Hahahaha, Which is what we have here,Even if I dont use it, The Genny might have to go back in just to lower the front of the Coach, Or I could bolt or weld a sheet of steel in the floor there, the equivelent of the Gennys weight, and make it a useable bay, on top of the sheet. I havent worked it out yet, But possibly 1/2 inch thick plate steel as the floor,I am using as heavy steel as I can with out being Rediculous, In the gas tank frame, Trying to compensate for the lack of weight the new set up will be,I have also extended the steel to go under the Bays and the Battery Box, I will leave about 3 mm or 1/8th of an inch Gap, and fill it with silicone or some thing like that to kill the Vibrations and also give it some flex, so it dont start snapping off bits if its too rigid, HahahahahaRain has been a big hold up here, Its supposed to be Summer and 25 or 30 + Celcius, Once I am finished getting it all working, I wont have to touch my Coach again, Ever, Unless some thing actually breaks down in or on it,I am one of those people that makes some thing, It lasts forever, I dont make to a cost, If I make it, Its permanent, Near indestructible, Over Engineered, Even on bigger Jobs, An extra 100 bucks in material thickness, Changes the Job from Flimsy to Substantial, And Permanent,Under 3 mm thick in wall thickness, it will self destruct in time, Guaranteed, More so if its moving or has Vibrations running thru it,Obsolesence is not built into my work, Hahahahaha, I do know what it takes to tear and rip steel apart, Experience, Hahahahahaha,I just Luuuuurrrrved Demolition, I could load up steel beams with great weights and rip and tear the beams off the buildings, So I know how much stress a steel beam will actually hold up before it collapses, HahahahahaYou cant beat Practical Experience, But, Health and Safety Laws make all this impossible these days, Hahahahaha So you will just have to hope your book that your learning from is accurate, My Theory Teacher as an Apprentice, was teaching me from a book that I knew was wrong, I pointed it out, Could prove it was wrong and did back it up with hard proven fact,They taught Mechanical Engineers from these books, None of them would know if it was wrong, But I did, because I was actually Forging at the time, I knew Metallurgy, Another part of my Course and I was working the steel with my hands, Its probably still wrong to this day, Too much effort to change the books, and the teachers didnt care any way, Its all history now, Im Retired, Hahahahaha,I was also the last year my Curriculum was taught, They took the Engineer out of my Curriculum and shortened the course to four years after my year, So I was very lucky to actually be a Fully Qualified Practising Engineer as part of my course, Engineering Blacksmith, VRTC,Theoretical Engineers is what they teach now, Very few actually manufacture what they design, with their own hands like I did, And write the Certificates out for them as well, in my own name,There's a Bit of History for you all, Its all gone now, Like the steam engines I used to Build Brand New, Hahahahaha Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #65 – November 30, 2013, 06:05:13 pm I am also going to drain the Diesel Tank completely out, while its up there on the ramps, Then I will know whats inside my tank, I can Start with nice clean Diesel and I can Calibrate my MPG accurately after that, Drive it for a few thousand miles,Put it up on the ramps again, Oil and Grease time, Drain the Diesel tank again, measure whats left, You cant get more accurate than that, Hahahaha Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #66 – December 01, 2013, 10:05:39 am Brian, Looks like the Propane laws there are quite different than in the US. It looks like what you are putting in are what we call DOT Cylinders of 20 pound size. In US that would be questionable. What we have is what you took out, 42 gallon ASME ( American Society Of Mechanical Engineers ) . ASME Tanks here never need to be re-qualified as DOT tanmks do.What is the reasoning that ASME tanks are not allowed in your country ? Just Curious.Gary B Quote Selected
Re: The latest from OZ, Reply #67 – December 01, 2013, 07:58:00 pm Quote from: Gary Bouland – December 01, 2013, 10:05:39 amBrian, Looks like the Propane laws there are quite different than in the US. It looks like what you are putting in are what we call DOT Cylinders of 20 pound size. In US that would be questionable. What we have is what you took out, 42 gallon ASME ( American Society Of Mechanical Engineers ) . ASME Tanks here never need to be re-qualified as DOT tanmks do.What is the reasoning that ASME tanks are not allowed in your country ? Just Curious.Gary BDifferent laws, I dont know the reasoning behind it, Ian, Keith and myself have had to remove the big gas tanks from our Couchs,Keith is having a new tank built,Every ten years gas tanks here have to be checked and Recertified, $100-00 Vapour draw off is illegal here for motors, Which is American systems, we have Fluid draw off and then thru a convertor that runs hot water from the radiator thru it too convert to gas, Beaurocracy at its finest, They both do the same thing, Its just where it gets to gas is the stumbling point,I took my G/V convertor, into a big gas place here, I wanted a new diaphram for it, That operates and sell all gas fittings, and gas and bottles,He had never seen one like it, and stated it was quite illegal to have them here,Still looking into it, But I have the Smaller ones in now, So it will comply with our laws,The missing weight from the Genny not being in, I can put a big Battery bank in there where the Genny was, That will pull the front end down again,I can get four Batterys in there, Move the ones under the step and put them in there too,I am going to have get it weighed on the four corners to see where the weight in my coach is, left side should be OK, Right side, I may have to play with the weight of it, Add more, Down the track for that at the moment. Quote Selected
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