Originally Posted by
Lionelgee
Hello SLow Members,
Well it took a while - pretty close to 3 days in fact, however my trailer with its ute crane is bigger and stronger than before. Keith (Rover12350) and Paul (Pop058) were present when my then newly installed and professionally "reinforced" trailer floor under the crane base took its first test. While lifting a 2.6 litre Land Rover Series 3 six cylinder engine there was a loud groan and a buckle appeared in the trailer floor.
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Over the weekend and after work today I took the crane off and ran a series of 3 lengths of 40 by 40 mm with 4 mm thick walls square hollow section which the crane base is bolted on top of. The hollow section is parallel to the width of the trailer bed and lines up under the securing bolts for the crane base. The bolts pass through the crane base and pass through the top layer of reinforcement and through the checker plate floor, then pass through a 50 by 50 mm pieces of parallel lengths of hollow section that runs back along the length of the trailer from the tail gate to a point above the axle. Underneath and across the lengths-ways located hollow section I place three full width lengths of 50 by 50 4 mm thick walled hollow section, which line up with the three parallel length of hollow section located across the width of the trailer and holding the crane base.
All remaining traces of the earlier buckle in the floor from the first trial disappeared as I tightened up the bolts.
Hopefully the trailer will pass its next test -
lifting a 2.25 litre diesel engine without any surprises occurring.
Kind Regards
Lionel
Must organise that now you mention it
PaulT
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