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Fuselage transport on truck pics needed?

CaptFox

CaptFox

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Justin, TX
Hi All,

I've been trying to do a quick search of pictures and only found one picture so far, I'm trying to advise a friend on how to load a fuselage frame onto a Pickup truck to transport without a trailer and giving him a few options/ways on how to do it (or been done and worked well). I know it has been done many times, can any of you post or link picks that I can show him. (I'd help him do it but he's a long way away and not real familiar with frames.)

Thanks.
 
As long as there isn't salt on the road a small car with a roof rack works fine. I brought a set of EDO floats home from Canada with them on my Suburban roof rack

Glenn
 
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Hope this helps

Bill
 
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I used a rack that slides in the receiver hitch. Just watch out for tailgaters.
 

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No - turn it around, remove the wheels, pad the cab of the truck. Tie the axles to the tailgate, and run a rope from tailpost to the front bumper. The engine will fit behind the cab under the fuselage. The wings can go on either side of the fuselage.

I took an entire J-3 from Pecos to Atlanta that way on a 1959 Chevy 8 foot pickup. I uncovered the wings first, thinking it would lessen the possibility of an upset. Got 19 mpg out of that 283 engine, and even with vertical fin way up there, no clearance problems. No damage. Took half a day to load, including fitting the 2x4s to the wings.
 
I made a pair of U shaped stands that fit in the landing gear fittings and float fittings and put it in the 6 1/2' truck bed facing forward. I tied from the wing attach fittings to the truck's sidewall ties-downs. The fuselage balanced near the float fittings. Be sure to fasten a flag as required to the tailpost to wake up the other motorists.



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Is this what you are looking for. Its all loaded up and about to hit the road from Helena MT to its new home in California. Tail section took a separate trailer as did each of the 5 wing sections. 10 semi loads in total. As you can see in the last photo, I think you should put a red flag on the end section as it hangs out just enough to possibly be a bit of a hazard. 149'2" to be exact.

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OK seriously, small boat trailer behind my Toyota previa, I think next time I would tarp the front to reduce wind drag through all the tubes and keep it cleaner. It's on facing backwards because that's how it best fit on the long tongued trailer. Univair to Helena MT, child's play.

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If in the back of a pickup use the back roads. State Patrol was not impressed with my method. He told me the load was too long, I tried to explain it was only a couple of feet past tailgate! He told me to go back home, I told him the hangar was closer. He agreed to let me go ahead, however told me if someone ran into the back it would be my fault. I told him to follow me since he already knew it was there, he declined.Winter 2009 Supercub107.jpg
 

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A 9 hour drive from northern Quebec to Eastern Ontario. Took a day to load. No issues just lots of interesting looks
 
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Thanks for the pics guys. That will help me get him pointed in the right direction.

David.
 
I have a trailer for hauling fuselage wings and all the other stuff for $1200.00 in Alabama. 256-310-3806
EV
 
evroosevelt said:
I have a trailer for hauling fuselage wings and all the other stuff for $1200.00 in Alabama. 256-310-3806
EV
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Added a picture to this thread of how I moved a wing on a makeshift 2x4 headache rack and drove 1000 miles with no issue a few years back.

Thanks, but don't need a trailer. Already have a customized setup for that purpose. Also pic added for others to see loading of that too for future reference.
 

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Here's another one. Not a pickup but a trailer made from an old Datsun pick up bed. Where there's a will there's a way.
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Got some strange looks from the DOT cops on the way home from OH, but they usually have bigger fish to fry. Lots of flagging and a led light on the end works good
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Any pickup or flatbed I've ever owned has to have a good solid rack, and not a wimpy little store bought one but one I fab out of 2 and 3" square and rectangular steel tube. As a result throwing anything airplane related on it is a no brainer, especially as I also always fab a removable front rack, at the same height of course as the mid and front racks, so if I am carrying something like a 1,300 lb solar array the weight is better distributed and an excessive rear over hang is avoided. One of my kit planes planes came back from the Kansas factory on the three rack system on my little 1990 Toyota pickup, the kind they no longer make, not a Tundra. A 20' long crate, 1000 lbs., no problemo.
 

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