HELP!!!???

[motomac]

I saw a post on either this board or the ST board from a guy that made a luggage rack from a wheelbarrow hanger he got at Lowe's. I have searched both boards for the post and cannot find it. Nothing against Turbo Tom, but I would like to see that home made job again. Where is it??? Thanks, Dick:) :) :)

[Mellow]

This one:
http://www.st-owners.com/forums/showpost.php?p=109545&postcount=21

I'm assuming that's the same 'Alan' as on this site?

Joe

[motomac]

Don't know about the Alan, but that's the rack. Thanks Joe.

[Mellow]

No prob.. it is the same Alan, same IBA # in sig.

[Alan]

Yep it's me, the cheapskate. I'm always looking for the low cost way to do things. I would upload the pictures to this thread, but they are over 1M each and exceed the limit. As Mellow mentioned, they are posted on St-owners.

[motomac]

Thaks for posting Alan, I don't need the pictures here. I saw whaat you did on the ST board and went to Lowe's this morning and bought a wheelbarrow hanger, installed it, and loaded it up with my cmaping gear. Works greeat. Thanks Alan and Joe. I'll be at Capmpstoc on theST. :D

[Alan]

Sometimes simple works the best. I'm glad to have helped.

I do question using bungie cords as the only tie down method. I believe in using straps so I can cinch all of my luggage down tight. I can still remember heading west on I-70 somewhere in Kansas and noticing in my rear view mirror a jacket bouncing down the expressway and that jacket looked a whole lot like my jacket!:eek: I quickly pulled off onto the road shoulder and walked way back to my jacket. Happily all of the traffic was avoiding running over the jacket so it was not damaged. The walk was quite long, it's amazing how far you travel while putting along at 85 MPH. That was the last time I trusted a bungie cord.

[silverbub]

nice illustration pics...but i have a polite cautious comment about the pics...i hope the packing on the rack is for illustrative purposes only as i envision the heavy coleman two burner stove with slick finish (low coefficient of friction) coupled with the slick vinyl tarp sandwich with no side restraints will start the stove crabwalking (sideways slide) literally down the road when road vibration, and stretching cycles of bungee cords will set up a dynamic that results in the stove bouncing down tarmac, followed quickly by tarp & then there goes the sleeping bag...better strut up the sides to keep stove from the crabwalk...just a thought!...want to help you get to campsite with all your gear & not to have caused some accident for someone following you...take care...silverbub

[motomac]

Thanks silverbub, I have since added some padding and another bungie to keep the stove from walking. I am looking for some nylon straps to replace the bungies also. That stove has a lot of time at campgrounds all over the country and Canada and I don't leave home without it.

[mongo]

I looked at the lowes rack thought about it, then called Turbo Tom and got him to add a 6 inch tube I will use for a back rest for the missus (I will makwe my own removeable pad), on the standard rack he makes. I went ahead with the order and he will make this the next runnoff of racks he makes. I was going to order the standard and he said the extra 3 inches would make a bunch of difference for the wife. I went out with a tape measure and was glad I listened. I was going to have to make to many changes on the lowes for what I wanted.

[Big Bandit]

Sometimes simple works the best. I'm glad to have helped.



I saw a statement recently, which I really liked. "Any idiot can come up with complicated solution. It take s a genius to come up with a simple one"

Rod

[mongo]

Wish I would have read Alan's post prior to installing my TurboTom rack! I lost the nuts into the black hole of the tail!


I think I better cram a towel into that black hole when mine comes in! If I don't I will have to smack myself after these "warnings"!