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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #45 on: December 11, 2017, 02:31:03 PM »

doing a great job Paul
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #46 on: December 11, 2017, 05:20:33 PM »

at least 10% of weight should be on the tounge.
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #47 on: December 12, 2017, 09:13:54 AM »

at least 10% of weight should be on the tounge.

Yeah.  I want to stay in the 10-12% range but right now based off my estimates I'm at the 15% mark with 30 lbs on the tongue. 
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #48 on: December 12, 2017, 09:42:29 AM »

at least 10% of weight should be on the tounge.

Yeah.  I want to stay in the 10-12% range but right now based off my estimates I'm at the 15% mark with 30 lbs on the tongue.

Feed the dogs more a few days before trips!  Done!   :t
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #49 on: December 12, 2017, 02:51:45 PM »

While I'm on the topic of axle position I actually think I'm changing the axles entirely that have an even lighter load rating and have an adjustable angle.  a little more expensive but is definitely going to be the right axle.  Should give me a lower center gravity. 
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #50 on: December 15, 2017, 10:30:36 AM »

look like I got most of my walls and cross members in place.  next to figure my wiring and pre-drill where needed.

new axles coming within the next 5 days.

next step is to skin it with the lauan paneling and maybe the aluminum exterior.  getting much closer

Started this project in August placing the order for the suspension and frame.  I'm hoping to have this done before BBT but I think I can make it happen. 
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #51 on: December 16, 2017, 10:18:15 PM »

Pretty crafty work there :thumbup: Looking good ;D
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #52 on: December 17, 2017, 08:46:11 AM »

looking good :thumbup:
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #53 on: December 26, 2017, 04:01:49 PM »

Put those new axles in and man what a difference.  These are the axles I should have originally gone with but my research was a just a tad short but at least I got them in before had a finished product. 

The picture of the torsion axles show the difference.  The one on top was what was on there.  Old design that uses resistance torsion as opposed to new design(bottom) that uses shear torsion.  This design upgrade allows for a smaller lighter axle since the metal and rubber are infused into the axle body (this shaved off 25 lbs from the overall weight).  Another design improvement is the adjustable angle of the axle.  The old design had a fixed 45 degree angle that would give but the exponential force would have to be greater to benefit from the suspension in turn the new axle I have it at almost a 10 degree angle so whatever it rolls over will actually give way better and it lowers the center of gravity. The last thing is the axles are rated at 75 lbs lower than the old design which just equates to a softer ride than say the 500lb one. 

pretty clear difference and although it was triple the price of the first set of torsion axles it will be worth it in the end. 

added a small bumper which was actually some kind of light bar that mounts to the license plate area of trucks.  I just cut off about an 1 1/2" from the mounting plate and screwed it in to the frame of the trailer and bam, there you go. 
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #54 on: December 26, 2017, 04:58:31 PM »

Looks good, and appears to be approved by one of its occupants.
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #55 on: December 26, 2017, 06:43:22 PM »

looking good!
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #56 on: December 27, 2017, 12:10:07 PM »

You might seriously look into patenting this.  It is an incredible piece of work.  There are many people who have animals and MCs and it might be a nice form of supplemental income for you.
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #57 on: December 27, 2017, 02:16:04 PM »

You might seriously look into patenting this.  It is an incredible piece of work.  There are many people who have animals and MCs and it might be a nice form of supplemental income for you.

You know I might.  Once I'm done and if someone seriously asked me about making them one I feel confident enough to build another and charge the appropriate price for it.  Other than what a 1970 Shasta Airflyte looks like on the outside I'm not following any write up or detailed instructions on how to build one of these things.  There are, albeit,  very few dog trailers out in the market but nothing like this one that I have seen around. 
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #58 on: February 13, 2018, 10:19:05 AM »

Pretty soon I will have an update on the Pup-trailer.  I had some setbacks on polishing portions of the aluminum skin.  I hate learning curves but at least I learn.  I would say it's probably 75-80% complete. 
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Re: Adventure touring with Pup in tow
« Reply #59 on: February 20, 2018, 03:07:42 PM »


just copying from post I already created

10" rectangular port hole window.  plenty of lights and a small bumper.

My next pics will be once it's complete. 
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