new flat bed

[highway]

still waiting for the wheels to come in but i figured my load situationout. its going to be ......................... a glass hauler.

COOL!!

I don't think I've ever seen a model of a glass trailer before. I've seen the real ones the Pumpkin Trucks pull, or at least, used to pull, but never a scale one.

[Semi Trailer Mechanic]

Here's a couple pics that might help ya . I took these a few years back to build but never got around to it.

[toplessfury]

Here's a couple pics that might help ya . I took these a few years back to build but never got around to it.

thanks thats pretty much where im at now.i found a couple of schneider glass flat but all are tarped cant find a pic of the actual frame work.so i started one from memory.i should have some pics tonight or in the morning.

[toplessfury]

here is where im at on this.not sure if im going to tarp it or not.

[highway]

here is where im at on this.not sure if im going to tarp it or not.

That looks like a great start. Going from what I remember of them untarped, you're dead on or very close to it!

[Madd Trucker]

this trailer has a few possabilities as is for large crated freight with the A frame as you have it now as a Glass hauler or preformed concrete building panles when I was working we had one to use for hauling 200 KW generators to Baldimore docks . if you are going to make it a glass hauler a good signage to place on the rear would use extream caution this is a glass truck . I like what you have done so far I built that when the flat bed was first issued

[Jim B]

Now that's cool! I've never seen a glass hauler model before. Great idea; unique.

[highway]

Jamie, will these help your memory?

They aren't the greatest (I didn't take them!), but they may help.

[toplessfury]

Jamie, will these help your memory?

They aren't the greatest (I didn't take them!), but they may help.

those are perfect thank you.i see i have alot more to go and may have to move some stuff.

[cowboysevens]

hey jamie , great job so far .a very unique truck indeed, specially for a model.

[toplessfury]

ok i had to make a trip to the hobby shop to get more plastic and here is where i am on this(nearly done)i got my wheels in todat and $8 for all 8 im happy.

i decided that the glass wasnt enough money for this trip so it will haul a aluminum coil

and now to the main load the glass.i just have to finish the straps and touchup paint and done(unless i tarp it)

[highway]

Looking nice, Jamie! One bit of advise, cross the chains in the eye of the coil!! If you have a chain break, you ain't making nothing on either load! Seriously, though, many years ago I built the flatbed and used it's coil load, even though I had mine loaded shotgun style with the eye going front to back instead to side to side (which is called suicide, btw) like yours. I had the chains like yours are, but going to the same side rail because of the way mine were loaded, and did I ever here about it! I built the truck and finished it the night before the club I was in was having a display of the scale truckers works in the group at the local 1:1 truck show. My brother, who was a steel hauler, just happened to come to the house that night and I thought I'd show him the truck. The first words out of his mouth was "You have the coils chained down wrong, you should have the chains crossing from one side rail to the other, crossing them in the eye." Of course, the next day at the truck show, I had many truckers compliment me on the model, even had one offer to buy it, but all the skateboards added to their compliments, "You know the coils are chained wrong?".

[toplessfury]

ill look into that thanks matt

[Jim B]

This thread might help: Loading a Flatbed

[Modelsbyroni]

EXCELLENT WORK.

[highway]

This thread might help: Loading a Flatbed

WOW, Jim, that is a great thread! Please DO NOT EVER delete the pics in it, I saved the thread to my favorites for future reference! I seen I got some more edgimication for skateboarding, both me and Jamie were right, we both just need more chains! Do you have any on vehicle securement, to see if I was doing that wrong, too, when I hauled wrecks on a Landoll trailer?

[Jim B]

I didn't write the thread, Ray (FlatbedKW) did. He does that stuff for a living. He probably has info on tying down all sorts of vehicles. If your talking military vehicles, I think the military has their own rules for tying down their equipment.

[highway]

I didn't write the thread, Ray (FlatbedKW) did. He does that stuff for a living. He probably has info on tying down all sorts of vehicles. If your talking military vehicles, I think the military has their own rules for tying down their equipment.

OOPS!!! I guess I should have read it a little closer rather than look at the pretty pictures! Sorry, Ray, but now that Jim has me out of my jackknife , Ray, PLEASE DON'T delele the pics in there.