Originally Posted by aussiefool
Is that a NSW thing?
It will be interesting to see your progress. Good luck, mate.
It will be interesting to see your progress. Good luck, mate.
It will be interesting to see your progress. Good luck, mate.
Not sure if it is a NSW thing or not but the park I live in has about 180 permanate residents and that is one of the park rules. In a way I do not mind as it keeps the park very quite on weekend. imagin the noise if 100 or so people started using grinders or drills early on a weekend.
Come 7am this morning out comes the drop saw with the metal cutting disk
Yeah - I can imagine.
After my wife and I had a lovely holiday at the marina at Hervey Bay, my head was filled with thoughts about how nice it would be to live right on a boat harbour just like we were in that ground floor unit at the Marina at Urangan at Hervey Bay. Having a coffee sitting outside and hearing all of jingle jangle of the fitings on the yachts in the cool night air was just magic.
Then I take a long holiday in Brisbane and launch my boat every day at Manly Boat Harbour in Brisbane and realise that boat harbours are industrial sites. Bloody circular saws and sanders screeching from all around the harbour as the fix-it-up brigade labour away.
It woudl be lovely at night but like living on a building site during the day.
great to see a reno going on Aussi, i bet when finished it will look a treat, keep them pics comming
Daz
Ok, I know I have been slack with the update on the reno so here is some more pics,
I enclosed the main part of the trailer with some steel bed frames that I salavged out of the re-cycle bin that we have here at the park. Then had to wait till a mate who can weld was free to come over. once that was done just slapped on 2 coats of "Kill Rust "undercoats and 2 more real heavy top coats of "Kill Rust " top coats.
Later to day ot first thing tomorrow I start on " Aussiefool II " it'self
I think I would be making a new trailer, that one has "gone to god"
Yep - with all those new sections in the trailer it is pretty much a new one!!
A mate up here has just built his boat trailer from scratch, something that is a bit beyond my welding skills.
Good work Aussiefool!!
Cheers.
Ed.
"I think I would be making a new trailer, that one has "gone to god""
Sorry aussiefool but I have to agree with Noelm.
That trailer is rusting from the inside and has really had its day.
Old cars go to wrecker heaven
Why are decrepid trailers allowed to stay on our roads.
Regards
Seabug
Dude that is the crankiest lookin old boat and trailer I have ever seen. Top effort for going the full reno...looks like you are doing a top rate job. Nothing like enjoying the spoils of your hard work and I bet you are proud as...good onya mate!!
BilgeBoy
Aussiefool,
I'd say you got your money's worth out of that trailer. You must have good roads in NSW, a good pothole could have been disasterous. Good luck on the rebuild.
Rgs
Michael
you may want to rethink doing the just a coat of resine over the hole thing.
dont use Fiberglass .
use Epoxy.
thats a dynal coated hull.
which is epoxy and a matting more like cotton/ nylon.
fiberglass will peel off.
the epoxy will stick like poo to a blanket and it will flex not crack, like glass.
cheers Cloud 9
then it realy gets ughly
epoxy is just the type of resin. The alternative is polyester. Fibreglass is a pretty broad term which refers to both chopped strand mat and glass cloth.
Epoxy is more expensive than polyester.
Personally I would have binned the trailer, but well done to you for getting it back on the road for another year or so. I would drill a few holes in the top and sides of that tube to see how thick it is.
How's the progress matey??
Trailers looking pretty good
Luckily you've got some good mates eh
Whatever happened to the original Aussiefool matey??
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