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Tbern, i am actually doing that right now. Do you have a camera on me? don't give about my coordinates!Tight lines!
Cut back on the weight quite a bit over my wood versions by using PVC.
. How did you fasten the pvc to the skis?
PVC caps bolted to the skis. I used a hardened bolt and didn’t countersink them at all. What I lose with the minimal drag those cause I gain back and then some by a ton due to the reduced weight of PVC vs. wood. Inch and a half PVC is what I used for most of it. On the elbows I put a reducer in that took it down to an inch. Glued 5” pieces of 1 inch PVC and those slide into the uprights attached to the skis. The only thing glued together are the cross pieces and those elbows/upright one inche pipes. The pieces that run parallel with the skis are not glued at all. They come apart when you aren’t using the thing but when it’s all pieced together they fit quite snug and won’t pull apart.
Great design. What are you pulling with it?
Apologies, I meant what are you hauling? Flipover? Jet sled? Custom stoatage?
Nice work, can you upload pictures?My natural procrastination may work in my benefit. I have the skis, bindings off. Want to build something to hold my jet sled, with the Quickfish 3i on the side of it. These PVC designs have me thinking, love the thought of lighter. Now i need to sit down and figure out the design. I would love to have verticals coming off the cross pieces to hold both in place
You guys have advanced nicely from the primitive 1980s Bravo! Nice work. I might add that we didnt have heaters or shelters to haul back then. Just braved any weather and loved every minute.
Thanks Al , but I always overbuild everything . Even got steel L brackets to lock over the top of the 2x8 for a little more reinforcement where the 2x4 sits in the notch . I already pull 200 lbs. of equipment onto the ice . Another 5lbs. won't make any difference .