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Now take that same excavator and put it on a rail car moving at 45-50mph and push it over the same slope. Not going to have the same results.
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Here's a link to a great example of what I was talking about, just for anybody else that might be interested. Lots of other cool stuff in that build-thread too. Top-notch fab-work right there....I know exactly what you are talking about for strength along those welds. I know what you mean about welding on a plate at the ends of each tube before welding the...err..tubes together. Was thinking about that earlier.
I would fish plate as well. Cut a plate to go across each butt weld, bore holes ~3x plate thickness in a few well chosen spots on each side of the butt weld, then rosette and perimeter weld the plate down.Oh, and on the subject of rectangular tubing: nothing really inherently wrong with mitered corners like those, but those butt-welds should absolutely be gusseted - and it wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead and weld a flat plate in between each mitered joint. Not sure how best to explain exactly what I mean, but basically, you'd cut a flat plate (of at least the same thickness as whatever tubing you're using) to fit between the two tubes at each mitered joint. Make sense?
Fully agreed. If my truck is involved in a rollover, it is a lost cause to try and avoid damage to it, it will be a total loss. The only question in my mind is - am I going to be a lost cause also? I would obviously prefer to remain intact, and you are right, the further you manage to get from a rolling 13-20 thousand pound chunk of scrap metal, the better your choices of survival. I will take a roll through a ditch and chainlink fence in a deuce cab over a roll through the same while underneath a deuce any day of the week.As long as I'm tossing out ideas, what about this one; a break-away cab as 'escape pod'.
After the snickering and flaming dies down... consider that, from the moment of impact on, the deuce or five-ton isn't going to become magically lighter. If the worry is being hurt/killed by 13,000+ pounds of chassis, power-plant and drive train then one logical solution is to get the he11 away from it.
I'm working on this project for all of us; question: Is that pipe connecting the cab to the bed? Fastnova, I would like some pics if you have them of this.
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