4583C wrote:[...Frank
Take that Tacoma on a tour of the Hood County backroads and find where some moron has dumped a couch on the side of the road ...
..and when you find Paul's couch...let Debbie know what he did to her mother's favorite sofa!
cmsusllc wrote:What I use to raise my tail ( of the plane ) is a motorcycle air lift. It raises the platform about 32 inches making crawling around in the back much easier. I'm currently relocating the battery to the back ( bigger job than you would think ) and a level floor makes it much less tiring.
Scott.....53B
That's what I do when I want to level my airplane. I use a hydraulic motorcycle-lift/work-platform...roll it up against the tailwheel (which rolls right up the ramp) and then pump the platform up until the airplane is level.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention. An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
Well I'll be doggoned! I have one of those Harbor Freight, air over hydraulic, motorcycle lifts in my hangar for working on my Vespa motor scooters. Never thought of using it to raise the tail of my airplanes. It's terribly discouraging to find out that you're not as astute as you thought you were. I've always used my "Cherry Picker" hoist and a strap around the rear of the fuselage.
Blue4,
"A" scooter like hell! I have two identical vintage green '05 Vespa GT 200L scooters. They're real go-ers and will hit about 75 mph on a level flat road. Overhead cam, 4 stroke, 12 cu.in. single cylinder engine.
My younger daughter, Nancy, came home from Hong Kong for a visit (She is a FedEx pilot on the Asian routes) and said "Gee, Dad, Ifyou had two scooters we could go on a trip togethher".
Isn't that enough to force even the grinch to promptly acquire another scooter? It happened that week end an exact copy of my scooter was advertised in the local paper at a very reasonable price. What choice did I have?
Nancy will be getting home again on 2 Apr 11 and, weather permitting, I hope we can go scootering together. She has never driven a scooter, but while on a vacation trip to Viet Nam she hired a guide who was a former schoolteacher and rode all over Viet Nam on the back of his scooter. Many years ago she used to ride her boyfriends Harley Davidson to work every day, so I am quite sure she will do just fine. It was kind of funny. She was workng in a bank located in a restored victorian mansion and the manager became quite upset. It seems a good looking young chick with waist length blond hair riding a Harley Davidson was not exactly the image they were looking for. Interestingly, she ALWAYS managed to march to a different drummer.
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