Bite the bullet, drill a hole in one of those steel crossmembers and install a Superclamp. There's a reason you see them everywhere. Been running them two decades on my sled deck and three place open. Straps everywhere on your current set up and I still wouldn't be comfortable hitting the brakes hard or sliding on a road.
HORRIBLE END to a great day and a new sled…
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When we used to run a trailer I made these clamps to secure the rear of the snowmobiles. They worked well.
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If this is the only way the sled is tied down, it is not secure from tipping off the trailer. Fatigued metal or not, the leverage on that u piece from a force large enough to lift the other ski off the trailer will bend the metal plate. Nothing is holding the sled securely down onto the trailer.
Sketchy way of tying down a sled IMO
Clearly the SNOW GODS have SMILED UPON YOU!!!!!!!
pretty confident that sled ain't going anywhere.It's like Christopher hasn't learned a thing from this entire thread.another 25k sled traveling down the highway with a $30 system of u-bolts and straps
More likely the old trailer would flip over and wreck the sled than the sled coming off the trailer.
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Can I make a suggestion Chris? I am not trying to be critical, just trying to help. It look like you have a square tubing centre beam, maybe even Channel iron. I would avoid securing to the suspension frame that high up.
If you can rig up a way for your ratchet strap hooks to attach under the trailer or on the side rail, you can avoid tying down that far up, there is a good chance they will loosen up there at the back.
So what I do is have my ratchet strap over the top of the rails with a rag or something to protect the strap from chafing, I hook to a tie down point down low close to the rail. The other end goes under the structure and when tensioned it pulls down hard and has little to no side movement.
I use that method tying down on my sled deck, There are ratchet strap tie down points already welded on the rear.
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FWIW..
After we attached the 2 rear straps and snugged them down, I got up on top of the sled and added another 200lbs of down force to sinch them up again. So the tunnel was under full load when the straps were set.
This is a very short term solution.
Hope to just buy another small lightweight trailer in the next week or so to get me through this season and then get a real trailer built this summer.
The shop that built this trailer for me years ago offered to make me another one that is LONGER so the 165s will actually fit on it, and to weld in some center line tie down points as well to secure both sleds to the midline of the trailer.
After we attached the 2 rear straps and snugged them down, I got up on top of the sled and added another 200lbs of down force to sinch them up again. So the tunnel was under full load when the straps were set.
This is a very short term solution.
Hope to just buy another small lightweight trailer in the next week or so to get me through this season and then get a real trailer built this summer.
The shop that built this trailer for me years ago offered to make me another one that is LONGER so the 165s will actually fit on it, and to weld in some center line tie down points as well to secure both sleds to the midline of the trailer.
Gonna send you @christopher to a cargo securement class... lol
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Dealer finally got a price for the Gen5 Tunnel, $2,930 + labor
So the Ins. Co now has a final estimate for repairs.
Said I should have an answer on Rebuild or Replace on Friday.
So the Ins. Co now has a final estimate for repairs.
Said I should have an answer on Rebuild or Replace on Friday.
I don't get it. you get new sleds and trailers and trucks every year and post here, but have your sled tied down by some rusty ass u-bolt on one side.
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It sucks your sled took a pavement nap, but just drill a hole and get superclamps.
Random question, are aluminum trailers just not a thing out there?
You rarely ever see a aluminum two place open sled trailer out west, but at home everybody has one stuffed in the backyard. You can pick up a nice used one for like 800 bucks.
Or new for $2000
*With a screw down bar*
Maybe I need to haul a load of them out there next time.
You rarely ever see a aluminum two place open sled trailer out west, but at home everybody has one stuffed in the backyard. You can pick up a nice used one for like 800 bucks.
Or new for $2000
*With a screw down bar*
Maybe I need to haul a load of them out there next time.
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We don’t have the rust issues with a drier climate that many have.
Steel flexes a bit better and survives the rough Mtn roads better.
Aluminum likes to sheer in two when you cross the line, steel will bend and is easier to repair for the ave guy.
Steel flexes a bit better and survives the rough Mtn roads better.
Aluminum likes to sheer in two when you cross the line, steel will bend and is easier to repair for the ave guy.
Welcome to reality.
For years I did the high dollar balls to the wall enclosed trailers. Then I went the polar opposite, cheap and ultra light weight. Last spring I put together a deal for another high end trailer but it turned out too heavy for my F150 so I didn’t follow through. Next year it looks like I will be back in a 250 again and will probably be back to a sweet custom enclosed.
For better or worse I try really hard to be HONEST with the members of SW and own up to both my successes and my FAILURES.
This was an EPIC FAIL that could have been avoided for $10 but wasn’t.
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Sraub-some rusty ass u bolt. Haha
Your beating a dead horse! He has already admitted that he wasn’t thinking.
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