07-24-2015, 10:55 AM
Coach 608 is in the house......
at 6 this morning my buddy dave came over with his tractor and he made a driveway pad for me to see what ramp slope i can get into the shop with. i amd many of my friends used trig and drawings etc to calculate the ramp height/slope i could have without hitting the trailer hitch backing up and to not high center on the exhaust pipe for the genny/aquahot.
dave just said get me some rock and lets make one till it works. no trig....
so i had 50 tons of 1/4 minus granite brought in and in and hour he had made a first pass ramp. i told him it was too steep and the hitch would drag and i would high center.
well.....as you can see, us engineers overenginered the math on this one. it didnt come close to hitting the hitch on the ramp and plenty of room as i backed all the way in.
so....for the first time, the newell is in the newell house. even plugged in.
still lots of room in there.
still have a lot of work to do.
tom
at 6 this morning my buddy dave came over with his tractor and he made a driveway pad for me to see what ramp slope i can get into the shop with. i amd many of my friends used trig and drawings etc to calculate the ramp height/slope i could have without hitting the trailer hitch backing up and to not high center on the exhaust pipe for the genny/aquahot.
dave just said get me some rock and lets make one till it works. no trig....
so i had 50 tons of 1/4 minus granite brought in and in and hour he had made a first pass ramp. i told him it was too steep and the hitch would drag and i would high center.
well.....as you can see, us engineers overenginered the math on this one. it didnt come close to hitting the hitch on the ramp and plenty of room as i backed all the way in.
so....for the first time, the newell is in the newell house. even plugged in.
still lots of room in there.
still have a lot of work to do.
tom
2002 45'8" Newell Coach 608 Series 60 DDEC4/Allison World 6 Speed HD4000MH