Implement for a Different Kind of Horsepower

[grsthegreat]

its coming along nicely :thumbsup:

 

[NormL]

Thanks for the advice on the brakes. I hadn't planned to hook them up initially. Maybe I'll postpone the brakes indefinately based on your advice. These tires are off a motorcycle. I'd think a motorcyle would handle some strain since it's made to brake from 60+ mph. The most helpful info is your experience that brakes on a 2 wheeled cart really don't do much.

Here are some more pics of my progress. You have to use your imagination a bit to pick out the cart from all the stuff in the background. My tiny little shop sure is cramped. Tonight I got the seat brackets all welded up. They are just setting loose on the frame in the picture. I'll probably find some time tomorrow to get them welded to the frame.

Man, it's comforting to see someone else works in a shop that's cramped for space. Every few months I have to go looking for the top of my workbench. That means putting away tools from old projects either completed or set aside for later, sometimes a lot later.:laughing: Then I'll start something else and you'd never know that anything ever gets tidied up.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Man, it's comforting to see someone else works in a shop that's cramped for space. Every few months I have to go looking for the top of my workbench. That means putting away tools from old projects either completed or set aside for later, sometimes a lot later.:laughing: Then I'll start something else and you'd never know that anything ever gets tidied up.

I liken my workshop space to a travel trailer. In a travel trailer, you make dinner in your kitchen. Then you convert the space into a dining room and eat. Then you convert back to a kitchen to wash up. When it's all done you convert the space into a living room to hang out until bed time when you make the space into a bed room.

It's the same in my workshop. It's a cutting area. Then it's an assembly area. Then it's a woodshop. Then an assembly area again. Then a paint booth...

 

[grsthegreat]

I used to have plenty of space in my shop. Then i had to add shelving to store my parts for my electrical contracting work. that took a large portion of my working room.

The 5x9 plasma table also takes up a good portion of floor space.

i think i need to totally empty out my shop , add insulation to the outer walls and re-organize the entire thing

but every time i think of starting this, i sober up and go take a nap:laughing:

 

[colinc]

Cute Fjords!

I have 7 horse carriages... had 9 but sold 2 of them.

Brakes are great on the 4 wheeled carts...but kinda useless on the 2 wheeled rigs...as the horse simply drags the cart with the wheels spinning.

I had a training cart very much like the one your planning on building...an easy entry cart. It worked just fine.

I only sold it cause i train the new horses on the 4 wheel marathon carriage instead as its super heavy duty AND has brakes that demand respect from the horse
Now i only have two remaining 2 wheel carts, one is a show cart and the other is a forecart for pulling the team and the manure spreader.

your plans look totally doable . Brakes also add tremendous strain to the welds and can really over torque cheap wheels. Ive seen bicycle style spoked wheels explode using brakes and a fast moving horse.

 

[grsthegreat]

Cute Fjords!

thanks... there spoiled rotten too :laughing:

 

[otis whitehead]

Just a Quick Note. Get your helper (daughter) some cotton work clothes. Looked like she was in a snow suit or some such outfit. As a welder of 20+years cotton is your friend and everything else not.cotton will burn yes but everything else melts and sticks to skin. Other than that looks like on cool/nice build.

 

[colinc]

cotton is your friend and everything else not. cotton will burn yes but everything else melts and sticks to skin.

An off-topic nugget of trivia: we chemistry types favor cotton lab coats for the same reason.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Thanks for the heads up on the cotton clothes for the helper. Usually she's not that close when I'm welding. She helped me last night and she'd go to the other side of the shop and look away during the few minutes that I'd weld stuff.

I've never caught myself on fire welding. It's always when I'm grinding that I catch myself on fire.