secretsmoker
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Just a short one as I haven't taken many pics (trust me it's for the best)
The missus was worrying about how much crap we need to transport from the car park at Glastonbury this year. Last thing I wanted was lumping loads of stuff for miles having driven for 5 hours at the dead of night!
Take one free exercise bike acquired from my friend intercepted on it's journey to the tip, some threaded bar, locknuts washers etc and 2 rather expensive sack trolley wheels acquired locally (£7.50 each! Obviously saw me coming...) which are of steel construction with pneumatic tyres and seem to have fancy ball bearings -
An afternoon spent chopping and an evening of welding and it became this abomination-
Tried to get maximum ground clearance, keeping the load fairly high whilst still being stable with plenty of leverage.
It's not just for the booze, although now that my booze transporting capacity is maximised I may as well take maximum booze!
Seems sturdy enough. Some of the welds are a bit 'interesting' but what it lacks in elegance it will hopefully make up in usefulness. Hoping the wheels are big enough. If the place is an absolute bog they may get submerged so plenty of greasy goo will be applied to the important bits before we go.
Next stage is to add a few crossmember pieces and develop the bed a bit more using some of the scrap that is lying around. Not too bothered if it gets wrecked/doesn't come back although I will be taking the wheels off and hiding them before the crusties start asking to borrow the thing!
The missus was worrying about how much crap we need to transport from the car park at Glastonbury this year. Last thing I wanted was lumping loads of stuff for miles having driven for 5 hours at the dead of night!
Take one free exercise bike acquired from my friend intercepted on it's journey to the tip, some threaded bar, locknuts washers etc and 2 rather expensive sack trolley wheels acquired locally (£7.50 each! Obviously saw me coming...) which are of steel construction with pneumatic tyres and seem to have fancy ball bearings -
An afternoon spent chopping and an evening of welding and it became this abomination-
Tried to get maximum ground clearance, keeping the load fairly high whilst still being stable with plenty of leverage.
It's not just for the booze, although now that my booze transporting capacity is maximised I may as well take maximum booze!
Seems sturdy enough. Some of the welds are a bit 'interesting' but what it lacks in elegance it will hopefully make up in usefulness. Hoping the wheels are big enough. If the place is an absolute bog they may get submerged so plenty of greasy goo will be applied to the important bits before we go.
Next stage is to add a few crossmember pieces and develop the bed a bit more using some of the scrap that is lying around. Not too bothered if it gets wrecked/doesn't come back although I will be taking the wheels off and hiding them before the crusties start asking to borrow the thing!