"looks like a little more blending is needed" - yup, I did all that vertical; shoulda turned the feed down even more, didn't notice things sagging til I started blending. Still thinkin' it'll get re-done, just got antsy and started cutting out the parts for the pick point/"roll cage" (not really, but it'll LOOK like one :laughing
Stuck a piece of small square tube on the saddle of the floor jack, moved it back and forth and left/right and found the center of gravity - it's maybe an inch off dead center of the cart's "floor" - I'm still gonna make that pick point 4-way adjustable, just in case I end up puttin' something heavy in the drawer, etc - with the bottle in that front corner, it's VERY comfortable in the "hand truck" mode, perfectly balanced somewhere around 35-40 degrees tilt. The 13" tires makes it pretty easy to move around.
"You actually making that roof out of place then put it up on the container?" - Yup, it'll get built with the main struts clamped to this
"secret weapon" -
- and mounted similar to what I did on my 20' container's roof -
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Then, when it's already to go (with the parts that go into those container corners already welded up and LOCKED to the proper width to just "plug in"), The brush bucket AND roof will get picked up (see first pic again) by the loader, driven down the driveway to the container, and (gently
) inserted into the container corners and locked in place.
The parts that plug in will be OFFSET so the roof ends up with more coverage on the WINDWARD side of the doors, and there'll be a "tether" from the roof strut down so the windward door can be blocked open if needed.
That "brush bucket" is another project that's paid for itself multiple times - built it for tree/hedge trimming, use it for that plus a portable work platform, moving firewood (I've had over 2/3 of a cord of green maple in it, still together) - I added a front "mini-ramp" on it for the wife to get her garden cart in it easier, found out I can pull up to a good-sized compost pile and pick up the whole thing, leaves the area flat like it'd never been there -
Anyway, if I build the 10x10 "porch roof" clamped to that bucket like I plan, I can weld it out
inside where my gas won't blow away - then I'll screw down the (used) roofing, so
when it goes UP it'll be DONE; and with only a couple trips up a ladder to lock it in place...
Speaking of backs, mine's been this way since I was 18 (and still "invincible"
) - this area had basically a hurricane back in '63, I was working in a grocery store - warehouse was across an alley from the store. First anybody knew, the wind picked up a couple of cantaloupe crates and threw 'em thru the 1/2" plate glass rear doors, then proceeded to rip half the tarred flat roof off the warehouse and dump the pieces in that alley - followed by MORE wind and a cloudburst. Naturally, the half of the roof that went away was over the sugar, flour, and other dry goods - so all us "invincible young guys" got to move all that stuff into the store.
Too much mess in the alley for ANY wheeled carts, so I had 2 "6-10's" of sugar, one on each shoulder, coming across the alley when I lost footing on a wet 2x12 and went down - happened too fast for me to do ANYTHING but
get PILE-Driven into the ground with 120 pounds of sugar still on my shoulders
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Workmans comp chiropractor gave up on me after a year or so, plus I was leaving town so he showed me a couple tricks to "reset" things. These days it doesn't seem to work as well as it did, so I checked your link out -
Do you remember how long those little AAA batteries last? Seems like they'd peter out fairly quick, but I'm ready to try somethin' different - I have a blood pressure cuff that's Omron, no problems with it... Steve