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Old 04-01-2012, 02:48 AM   #343
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From strength to strength. Perfect!

Ranks right alongside my favorite New Beetle pickup.
http://newbeetle.org/forums/rumors-i...le-pickup.html
That's pretty friggin sweet.
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Old 04-01-2012, 08:33 AM   #344
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Just keeps getting better! Any plans to put front fenders on it?
At some point I would like to put front fenders with flares on her. When I am plowing snow, if I spin a front tire I spray a rooster tail of snow straight at the front seat on the side of the spin.
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Old 04-01-2012, 10:48 AM   #345
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A linear actuator.....good idea.

Here's a shot of the way my flat bed dump is configured, BTW, I have found over the years that nothing seems to be required to keep the bed in the down position, gravity does just fine. I only secure the bed (with a chain binder under the frame) if I am carrying one of my 22' long by 10' wide solar arrays on the racks, they might devolup a little up force going down the road so I take no chances there! Of course a linear actuator will take care of that anyway.
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Old 04-01-2012, 01:50 PM   #346
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couple of those and you could turn Crashy into a real-life Transformer...
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:29 PM   #347
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http://www.northerntool.com/shop/too...3243_200333243

A good source for the linear actuator maybe.....
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:41 PM   #348
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A good source for the linear actuator maybe.....
Exactly. I ordered the 12" stroke version of that one.
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Old 04-06-2012, 10:28 AM   #349
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Making progress with the dump bed. Last night I finished welding the support assembly for the rear pivots:

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Old 04-06-2012, 11:40 AM   #350
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Wow this is too awesome!
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Old 01-17-2013, 04:31 PM   #351
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any updates on the dump bed??
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Old 01-17-2013, 04:36 PM   #352
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any updates on the dump bed??
It works like charm. Here's a video of it in action:

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Old 01-17-2013, 08:45 PM   #353
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That goes quite slow, way cool though.

CTScott, on a personal note, do your neighbours think your insane? the people in the car that drove by looked concerned with what was going on
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Old 01-17-2013, 08:53 PM   #354
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That goes quite slow, way cool though.

CTScott, on a personal note, do your neighbours think your insane? the people in the car that drove by looked concerned with what was going on
They think I am totally insane.
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Old 01-17-2013, 09:17 PM   #355
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^LMFAO

DNW Scott, We dont judge
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Old 01-18-2013, 10:34 AM   #356
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It's a good insane . . Mr. Goodnut ( in place of Goodwrench ) .

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Old 01-20-2013, 03:24 AM   #357
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It's a good insane . . Mr. Goodnut ( in place of Goodwrench ) .
^^^^^ This. And at least one neighbor realizes that a wonderful part of that is how prepared he is. After Sandy, I wrote a post that Scott was probably more prepared for the storm than anyone in Connecticut except the military. Scott replied (I'm paraphrasing) that the wife in one of the neighboring families asked her husband why they didn't have a generator, because Scott has one for his family.
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Old 01-23-2013, 10:11 PM   #358
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They think I am totally insane.
isn't that the definition of a good engineer? Or inventor? Or creator? I mean there is a reason why we call them the boring normal masses.
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