Thread: A Frame Towing

Hello All,

I did win the A-Frame ... woot - woot!

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Patience Ian,

I won the bid. Pick-up for items is tomorrow.

Kind regards
Lionel

Hello Ian,

Just so you don't have to wait too long for a photograph... another item I bid on and won was a Renegade 900kg ute crane that looks like it is brand new. Someone must have bought it for a project and decided to go another direction. I checked the ute crane over and I could not even find bolt marks around the bottom plate or a scratch in the paint anywhere. Photograph accessed 3rd December 2023 from, https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-xsnp...=800&fit=cover. It is a TradeTools product. I paid $146 less than new price - so I reckon I did well for that bid.

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

I just put a bid on an A-Frame towing kit at the local auction place. The A-Frame has been sitting there for at least three of the weekly auctions. I am new to A-frames and I thought it might make it easier to tow non-running Land Rovers around the paddock. Where is the best place to fit the A-Frame on the front of the vehicle to be towed. Alternatively, if the vehicle was to be towed from the back - where would the A-Frame be secured. The vehicles to be towed would mostly be Series Land Rovers. Along, with the occasional International 1210 van.

What is the bet that someone else will bid on the A-Frame after it has sat there for so long! I suppose that is just the luck of the draw. Well, at last it is cool enough to go outside and do some mechanical tinkering - just before a possible storm.

Kind regards
Lionel

chain between the chaissis and the spring at the front draped up and over the bumper. through the A frame end pins and secured back between the spring and the chassis.

Same place at the rear.

Hello Ian,

Good things come to those who wait. See photographs below - as requested.

Dimensions are: Main material is square hollow section steel 40 mm. Overall length 1500 mm and width 730 mm

The attachment to the vehicle to be towed features a hole where a hitch pin locks onto to a bracket that must be bolted to the bumper bar mounting bolt holes. In a couple of the photographs it shows the hitch pins are stored via a braided wire clipped to the tow hitch handle. A possible example of these chassis mounted brackets appears at the 2:14 minute mark of this youTube clip... accessed 4th December 2023 from, 2:14 minute mark Sprinter Towing WITHOUT a Truck or Trailer! Cost MUCH Less than Flat Towing! - YouTube The last photograph is the previously described bracket that I took a screenshot of the youTube clip.The bloke even drives a Land Rover!

There are no manufacturer plates or official rating plates from the Department of Transport and Main Roads any where on the A-Frame. According to the Department's specification the absence of a rating plate means that the A-Frame cannot be used to tow on Queensland roads. Just as well I bought the A-Frame for use in my paddock! Overall, I am very happy with my purchase.

I will visit some local agricultural machinery suppliers to buy a pair of longer hitch pins which allow chains to be attached to the A-frame ends. With the chains fitted to the hitch pin the other end of each chain can then be secured around the leaf spring as Dave described in an earlier post.

I will also be mounting an electric winch and possibly a jockey wheel so non-runners can be winched into and out of my shed while I sit in the driver's seat and steer. I have the winch and now I have the A frame. I have a spare jockey wheel somewhere. The idea is to winch the car into the shed at the start of the day and then winch it back out into the yard at the end of the day. That way my daily driver can overnight in the shed out of the weather. The rest of the time the A-Frame will be used with a tow vehicle hooked up to a non-runner vehicle in the paddock to bring it to a shady spot that has a nice solid base, or to he shed. Either instance it is a place where the vehicle can be worked on safely and comfortably.

After I attached the photographs I noticed that my shed has apparently turned over on its side and the earth has shifted its axis. The A-Frame was photographed in a vertical position not a horizontal one - as the photographs now suggest... oopsy! It is going to be a bugger to drive the cars out now.

Kind regards
Lionel

Thanks Lionel.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Thanks Lionel.

G'day Ian,

I thought you might offer some of your hard won experience that I and other readers could benefit from!

Do I seem to be on the right track to you? I am aiming for a multi-purpose tool.

Whoever made the A-Frame took their time and did a good job. I reckon that the A-Frame saw a bit of the Australian countryside in its earlier time.

Does the first set of images appear at the wrong orientation on your screen - or is it just my screen?


Kind regards
Lionel