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    That's nice Bob. I understand, it's nice making stuff when you camp. Sometimes I wish I could bring my mill or lathe when I go camping!

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    I'd be tempted to flip your bracket under the ball over and then have the Unistrut bolt on to that, only because it means you could (potentially) leave the bracket in place when towing and just bolt the unistrut on when you stop. Just a bit less mucking around when moving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael G View Post
    I'd be tempted to flip your bracket under the ball over and then have the Unistrut bolt on to that, only because it means you could (potentially) leave the bracket in place when towing and just bolt the unistrut on when you stop. Just a bit less mucking around when moving.

    Michael
    Or alternatively use a bit of HD RHS to make the base. that way you can remove the entire towbar and tongue and replace it with the vice mount as required. A lot easier than undoing the towball each time. That's how I have set up the vice I take to the race track, it's a 2 minute job to swap between the towing set-up and the vice set-up.

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    A wet day today. First for a long long time.

    I have a job of repairing a truck spider hub, too big for the lathe, so a few pages back I mentioned the adapter I started making for the borer. Well it got mostly finished today, all the important critical stuff got done. Machined to fit the machine spindle and t-slots cut so attachments can be bolted onto it, like the 14" 4 jaw chuck I have. I should be able to swing about 1800mm

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    Love seeing your adapter progress.
    looking to do the same with the 340t at home. I found a nice chunk of steel in the scrap bin at work which is perfect, 300mm dia and about 60mm thick. I picked up a pair of chucks and a 600mm face plate to go with it.
    Dont really need it too big now though as if got the Bullard vertical

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    Thanks for the ideas.

    I'd rather swap the ball than the hitch as the latter involves getting down on my knees.
    However, have since realised I can't use it on our existing van hitch as it has a stabiliser bracket under the ball and there's not enough thread on the ball to fit the vice bracket as well.
    I do have a several spare tow hitches so I could just swap out hitches - oh my aching knees. We're only going to one camping place this year so it will only need to be swapped twice.

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    Can you bolt a bracket to the draw bar of the van?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael G View Post
    Can you bolt a bracket to the draw bar of the van?

    Michael
    Yes I could but it's only a very small lightweight A-van, and because of the slope where we park, the drawbar is almost on the ground which would require a longer vertical.

    Also SQMBO prefers the work be undertaken under the gazebo which we put up in front of the van door.
    I'm going to have to back the car under the gazebo to do it but that's no biggie.

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    Nice idea Bob. Without knowing your vehicle, would it be possible to add a receiver under or above the hitch, so all you had to do was slide in the "hitch"?
    When I say above the hitch, I mean so that it won't interfere with the coupling or tailgate, if it's a wagon.
    A pic of the coupling/hitch could help with a solution, just trying to help with the knee problem, M8. Another solution could be that a short section of receiver, possibly 50 X 4mm, and a 40mm hitch, be mounted under the van, so that you won't have to back the van in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    Nice idea Bob. Without knowing your vehicle, would it be possible to add a receiver under or above the hitch, so all you had to do was slide in the "hitch"?
    When I say above the hitch, I mean so that it won't interfere with the coupling or tailgate, if it's a wagon.
    I did look at this.

    the vehicle is a Subaru forester with the towbar installed behind the plastic bumper and a hole has been cut through the bumper to allow a receiver to poke through. The only way to add another receiver to the towbar either above or alongside the existing hitch would be to cut another hole in the bumper so that won't be happening. Attaching underneath is no different to getting down on my knees and removing/replacing the existing hitch. I'm loath to do anything permanent to the car or van because given how SWMBO operates, wood carving will most likely be out of fashion next time we go camping.

    A pic of the coupling/hitch could help with a solution, just trying to help with the knee problem, M8. Another solution could be that a short section of receiver, possibly 50 X 4mm, and a 40mm hitch, be mounted under the van, so that you won't have to back the van in.
    Kryn
    The A-van chassis and frame is super lightweight, and from the side of the van, any exposed chassis is too far under the van to get at easily. Again I also don't want to do anything permanent to the van.

    We have two dogs that travel with us everywhere in a crate in the back of the wagon so we will be opening and closing the tailgate several times each day whether we are towing or not. This means when the vice hitch is on, to open the tailgate at least the Unistrut part of the vice hitch needs to be removed

    So simplest sequence looks like it might will be:
    Tow van to Caravan park using van hitch.
    When SWMBO wants vice hitch on, I will and switch to that.
    When we want to go somewhere with dogs the Unistrut part of the vice hitch can be easily removed just by loosening the lower two bolts - the bolts do not need to be completely unscrewed just loosened and the Unistrut will slide off. The hitch part can stay in the tow bar receiver.
    Next time SWMBO wants the vice I'll put the Unistrut part back.
    When we leave I will again bend-ze-knees and replace the vice hitch with the van hitch.

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    One other idea Bob which I can't take credit for is one used by radio amateurs sometimes when they want rig a vhf or similar vertical antenna for portable operation. One version is a piece of steel plate just large enough to cover a tyre footprint, and stick out the side enough to allow a vee shaped assembly of channel or even angle to be fastened to it. At the base of the vee a socket for your unistrut could be welded.
    In use the part is placed on the ground and your car is driven onto the plate to anchor it, and the vice mounted on the unistrut is slipped into the socket and mums away.
    Another variation would be to just have a piece of plate with a socket for the unistrut welded to it, and say 4 holes on the perimeter to allow long screw in tent pegs to anchor the plate to the ground. A cordless drill driver does the hard work. The screw in tent pegs are just long tek screws, 200 - 250m long, and about 8mm diameter. It may save your knees a bit, if you can get enough rigidity, without too much weight. Cheers,
    Rob.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael G View Post
    For us non-sailing types - a long shoal keel I can understand, but what is a 'junk rigged schooner rig', and what advantages does that give?

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    This is her bigger sister - a GAZELLE. I thought about building one but wanted something slightly smaller, hence a custom version of another design.

    About “Indigo” | Paul and Gayle at Sea

    Basically it's a 3 sail rig - conventional 'western' jib and 2 Chinese lug (junk) sails on foremast & mainmast.

    Big advantage - dead easy to handle & reef and can all be built by the amateur. I built the masts and sewed the sails - with considerable help from friends, the sails are bulky to handle.

    Disadvantage - you give up some upwind performance. But it's a shoal draft hull, it's not going to point high into the wind anyway, it'll make too much leeway. So not much of a trade as far as I'm concerned.

    Basically it's a big toy that kept my mind & hands occupied in the building and caused me to 'need' a bunch more tools than I already had. It doesn't have to serve a practical purpose, I'm past caring about stuff like that.

    I hope to get a lot of entertainment out of playing with the baby in 2019 and then I'll probably start something else needing years to get finished. Fortunately I have that IH Drott tracked loader waiting its turn.....

    A last shot of baby floating pretty close to ger design water line. By the time the rest of the anchor chain, stores and personal gear are aboard, she'll float as intended. A bit over-weight but shrug, situation normal for a home build. Still got to finish the running rigging and bend on the sails, all jobs for January when I get back from traveling again.

    I'm happy.

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    Well that is a relief it is not a submarine.

    Looks a nice job, the downside is now it is in the water it is only downhill from here on in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Well that is a relief it is not a submarine.

    Looks a nice job, the downside is now it is in the water it is only downhill from here on in.
    Ha ha ha, how true that is. I said the same thing myself the day before we put her in the water.

    Still, I've joined a very small club of people who've both started and finished a boat build of significant size/tonnage. It's all good. I just skip lightly over the fact that I could have built 3 houses in less time.

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    That might be so, but would you have enjoyed it as much.
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