transporting carriers

[RichardT10829]

Personally i reckon the trick with this is to make the carrier itself a trailer ie some way of lifting the tracks from the road surface my thoughts would be towards a bolt on system using the bogeys and sprockets as mounting zones so if you can imagine a gantry with two wheels on each side of the hull with flat plates on and a bar, the bar goes into the bogey jacking point the flat plates slide under the hull, you would obviously need to secure it in place, then a towing triangle on the front......... the idea being once where you needed to get to you jack up the hull and pop the sides off, second pro would be the system would take up very little space when not in use.


Richie

ps please excuse the crude drawing its a first attempt using Paint and a 3 minute job at that har har har

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's how I hauled mine home with no problems whatever! By the way, that blue thing on the trailer is the carrier.

[martyn]

here is a couple of photos one of a 10tonn truck with 2 wrecks on it and one of my landy with just the hull the problem is they are 3.5 tonns and a bumper pull tow bar over here is 3.5tonn max then you have the weight of the trailer kinda just over weight by about a tonn yes you can tow it but watch out for the blue lights in your mirror.......... did try loading it on my trailer to see what would happen thort might blow the wheels out she took the weight and towed around the yard but wouldnt want to go up or down a hill.

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

Originally Posted by martyn

here is a couple of photos one of a 10tonn truck with 2 wrecks on it and one of my landy with just the hull the problem is they are 3.5 tonns and a bumper pull tow bar over here is 3.5tonn max then you have the weight of the trailer kinda just over weight by about a tonn yes you can tow it but watch out for the blue lights in your mirror.......... did try loading it on my trailer to see what would happen thort might blow the wheels out she took the weight and towed around the yard but wouldnt want to go up or down a hill.

Hello Martyn, try a RangeRover, this is how I transported the carrier last time, luckely didn't see the bleu lights.

Hendrik

[martyn]

Hi Hendrik
wow thats some trailer you have did we meet at arnhem a couple of years ago, I must say iam thinking of the mini artic route, thinking of converting my defender 110 to a 5th wheel pick up and changing the vehicle towing rates and making a nice step frame trailer maybe two sections of lorry chassie thats about the same width as a carrier track and strong a purpose built vehice and trailer?
Saw a iveco cab and chassie with a mini artic trailer with 5 cars on it when i was in holland last year that gave me the idea,
kinda like this photo i found on the net but my landy instead ? if a transit can tow sumthing a landy should lol.

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

Originally Posted by martyn

Hi Hendrik
wow thats some trailer you have did we meet at arnhem a couple of years ago,

It could be we met, I have been there 2 times with the carrier, 1st time with my old Volvo seconds time with a rented Iveco made for transporting small diggers. In my opion the best way to transport a carrier.

Hendrik

[cletrac (RIP)]

Ryan, what's there could be carried on almost any kind of trailer. You could almost carry it in the back of a full size pickup. I don't think you'd have a ton of weight there.

[Jordan Baker]

Interesting concept with the drawings. A couple problems I could see would that the track and suspension drops a lot when no weight is on it. So you would really have to jack it up. Some cross pieces would also be needed and how would you secure them, bolts??

I think this is a neat idea that could work.