[PSUBS-MAILIST] cart last days

Tue Oct 28 01:52:08 EDT 2014

Hank,

Will the cart float on its own?  

I did a survey dive at the launch ramp in Otter Lake, outside Princeton BC, as a potential sub dive site.  The launch ramp was concrete and reasonably steep.  The trouble was that at about three feet deep the concrete stopped and the bottom dropped off almost vertically to 20 feet.  A couple of young people with a ski boat on a tandem trailer dropped the forward wheels of the drop off and the all the weight was taken up by the fender brackets, which bent up.  Further damage resulted when they dragged the frame and fender brackets back up the drop off to get the wheels back on the ramp.  A pricey day.  Hence the reasoning behind my thought to weld a skid plate from the front of the trailer frame to the front of the wheels below the wheels' equator to allow the trailer to ride over the drop off without damage.  For our long tongue trailers I think it's a necessity.

It sounds like your cart will happily drive off the drop off and remain floating while the sub is launched and recovered.  Sweet indeed.  Tracks, you say?  Now that's way cool.

Tim

From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles
Sent: October-27-14 3:11 AM
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Sounds good Hank.  Looking forward to seeing it.  

James

On 27 October 2014 00:58, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > wrote:

Hi Tim,
Thanks' I think it will be awesome, I have spent some time standing on the shore of different lakes wondering how I can get my sub in.
Hank--------------------------------------------
On Sun, 10/26/14, T Novak via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] cart last days
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 Received: Sunday, October 26, 2014, 8:25 PM

 Brilliant, Hank.

 Looking forward to seeing the
 results.

 Tim

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 last days

 Douglas,
 Necessity is the
 mother of invention. I have driven to lakes only to find
 I
 can not launch.  It is time to get
 serious about L&R I would do track drive
 but it is to heavy.
 Hank 
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 On Sat, 10/25/14, Douglas Suhr via
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 [PSUBS-MAILIST] cart last days
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 PM

  Hank,

 I've gotta hand it to you, you've got the courage
 to  go where no one has
 gone before! Sounds
 like a psubber's  dream for ramp L&R. I'm sure
 you'll
 keep us  up-to-date with photos,
 won't you. ~ Douglas S.

  On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at
  6:21
 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
 <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> >
  wrote:
  I just
  pushed my launch cart into the shop for the
 last time.  Tomorrow it will be
 reborn. 
 The cart is getting a new rear  axel that steers via hyd
 cylinder,
 the front is getting a
  1/2 ton chev differential with a hydraulic
 motor to drive  it.  The cart
 then gets
 two dual chamber pontoons that act  as ballast tanks.  On
 top of
 one pontoon will be a 6 1/2 hp 
 Honda motor that drives a hyd pump to power
 and steer the  cart,  as well as a 24v
 alternator to charge my sub
 batteries.  I
 will be able to drive the cart with the sub  on it down
 the
 boat ramp or beach or whatever into
 the  water.  The cart will stay anchored
 in the water, until I  am ready to put the sub
 on and drive back to my
 trailer.
  SWEET

 Hank

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