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Frank S:
--- Quote from: tanner0441 on November 20, 2019, 10:14:34 AM ---Hi
I was building a stable block and collected a load of 2 by 3 by 15ft beams on the top of my Peugeot 504 estate, I constructed a frame for the rear and front to keep the weight off the roof. Add a load of 4 by 8 plywood sheets in the back and I have never driven anything so unstable in my life. Coming up a steep hill with a bend half way up also meant the steering was unpleasantly light. A journey which should have taken less than 10 minutes took something over half hour.
I collected the rest of the plywood I needed but paid delivery on the rest of the beams.
the pucker factor increases significantly when trying to haul something on a vehicle not designed for such duty.
Brian.
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Mary B:
Been there, load of 2"x10"x12' treated(15 of them) on my utility trailer towed behind a Chevy Aveo sub compact car, the trailer bed was only 8' so 4' of the load hanging off the back creating negative tongue weight(yes I know, not safe, my trip was all back roads with no traffic). I added an extra chain around the hitch and tongue so if the hitch failed it wouldn't snap to the end of the safety chains. Also reduced chance of failure since it couldn't lift more than 1/4 inch. If I got over 45mph things got VERY quirrely witht he death wobble, at one point the back end of the car was up off the ground until I slowed enough to stop it LOL Not a trip I repeated...
DanG:
Wah. Reread my previous post and see I'd merely echoed Frank S's description... I was* thinking maybe some peek-a-boo through the roof, so...
"A school bus 'sky dome' for the shops second third floor office!"
Yeah, I know.
Would like to see some anchor action on the in-shop container, sure looks like Tornado Country.
Frank S:
Dan G the shop container is sitting on 24 18x18x4 concrete blocks. Before I drug it in and placed it I had scraped the sandy loam top soil off and filled back with a red clay fill that I excavated from another area the clay was spread and packed as well as could be then I used my plate packer where the concrete blocks were placed I didn't get all of them as level as should have been so after sitting on them for almost a year with about 30,000 lbs of machines inside the container it had setteled to about 3 inches low on 1 end it may have been that low from the beginning. And before putting the school bus on top I wanted to try and get the thing level. 3 days jacking with a 12 ton hydraulic toe jack and a 50 ton bottle jack lots of oak blocks and steel plates later and more concrete blocks under the thing it is now laser leveled in place. I told my wife I may later pump a form of expanding grout under it to fill some of the void between it and the ground. It would have been nice to have been able to pour concrete where it is sitting but budget didn't allow for it. The columns for the building have 24 inch diameter truck wheels welded on the bottom of them and are in the ground between 5 and 8 feet depending on how deep I had to dig to reach a blue & yellow clay/ shale like substance.
It is what it is I am going to have to spread another 100 cubic yards of the red clay like stuff in and around the building, it really isn't clay but more like base as there is quite a bit of caliche in it as well but still red in color. When dry it is hard as rock when welt it is still pretty dang hard.
Frank S:
it didn't know if it wanted to drizzle, just be cloudy or just have the wind blow today, but in-between the spats I did finally manage to erect the rest of the scaffolding on the bus chassis and attach all of the braces then get everything level jacked to consistency and chained down to the frame so nothing could shift
I will use some of my pipe stands as down rigger stabilizers
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