Nice DIY project.
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Keep the rubber side down
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Re: Keep the rubber side down
by stanbery » April 14th, 2017, 4:42 pm
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Re: Keep the rubber side down
by DrCreek » April 15th, 2017, 6:49 am
I could have used something like that on Thursday ! 
"You can't keep a good Dr down."
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Re: Keep the rubber side down
by BrownBear » April 15th, 2017, 8:42 am
Good looking rig. Simple and clean.
Just a heads up:
Bud up here built much the same, and ended up making a second set of forks housing a very wide tire. Uses the bike tire for hard surfaces, the wide tire for soft sand, mud, etc. He found that with the weight of his pontoon boat and all the "stuff" he put in in the pockets, the bike tire would mire and stop. Second (wider) tire was salvaged from a rusted out wheelbarrow.
Just a heads up:
Bud up here built much the same, and ended up making a second set of forks housing a very wide tire. Uses the bike tire for hard surfaces, the wide tire for soft sand, mud, etc. He found that with the weight of his pontoon boat and all the "stuff" he put in in the pockets, the bike tire would mire and stop. Second (wider) tire was salvaged from a rusted out wheelbarrow.
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Re: Keep the rubber side down
by jaydubp » April 15th, 2017, 6:39 pm
Nice job. Looks just like Outcast sells.... Only problem with single wheel is when rolling a loaded boat-- I always have more weight on one side than the other and the 1 wheel was hard for me to balance.
I like BrownBear's idea of a fat tire
I like BrownBear's idea of a fat tire
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Re: Keep the rubber side down
by briansII » April 17th, 2017, 9:49 am
Very nicely done!
Yup. I have one very similar that Scadden makes. Works ok on hard, flat ground, but not so good in soft soil. I had a few choice words, going down/up a steep, rutted path.
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jaydubp wrote:Nice job. Looks just like Outcast sells.... Only problem with single wheel is when rolling a loaded boat-- I always have more weight on one side than the other and the 1 wheel was hard for me to balance.
I like BrownBear's idea of a fat tire
Yup. I have one very similar that Scadden makes. Works ok on hard, flat ground, but not so good in soft soil. I had a few choice words, going down/up a steep, rutted path.
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