Over the years Iv'e had the pleasure and pain of working on various projects of all shapes and sizes from classic cars to stock cars to fishing boats, over the years images have been lost but not the memories, so rather than keep future memories locked in the vast vault in my head they are going on here, hope you enjoy

Sunday, 18 March 2012

Ever asked to build a towing dolly from plans draw by Blind Bob and his crayon??

 I got asked to build a trial towing dolly, the plans had been bought of ebay and in all honesty after they ended up in the bin, so Wednesday teatime I started and Friday at 10.30pm it was done.












 After taking it apart and de burring it, it was re assembled but not painted, fitted with R13C tyres, attached to the back of the van and I left home at 1am Saturday  to pop to Dorset, got there around 7am after a couple of stops, got loaded and went home
 Arrived home just after 5pm again after a couple of stops, the Strada pick up weighs 1600kgs and the dolly and the van brought it home without and problems.
 I had a fleeting glance of stone henge, disappointed not to see any pagans running around, must be running out of virgins (only joking, I love all religions, don't think I've met any virgins) 

All thats left is to strip and paint it and put a winch on it, this one could well end up on ebay but could well be a few more popping up. Always been a big fan of using trailers but definitely can see the benefit as regards to reducing towing weight and if it will bring 1600kgs back safely it cant be bad 
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  1. Kids Parties in Maimi26 April 2012 at 04:19

    Excellent. It is really an amazing work, I truly like your fantastic trolly.

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  2. Steel Demon7 May 2012 at 15:29

    Many thanks for your comment, nice to see people are watching.

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    1. Unknown13 April 2020 at 08:43


      excellent your work congratulations thanks for sharing it

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  3. Unknown7 December 2014 at 23:42

    I am interested in building the same thing for a non-profit organization in Papua New Guinea. I just have a few questions about your pics. In picture 14 there are two sets of three skip welds. One set is on the lower A-frame part and the other set is on the upper pivoting part. There are no pictures of these welds on any of the unassembled parts. What are the welds for? Also, have you used the dolly much and is there anything you would do differently?

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    1. Steel Demon27 December 2014 at 06:42

      Hi, I put wear strips between the upper and lower, there are the same strips either side of the skips, these are to transfers the weight to the bottom chassis to stop the skip assembly breaking up.
      These should have been nylon tbh but time was an issue.
      Works well as it is but if I were to make it again I would make it lower, afix ramps to the lower chassis and have it a tilt unit as the way the drawbar is fixed it would allow for your this.
      Hope this helps

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  4. Unknown19 December 2014 at 06:30

    Please send me your plan

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    1. Steel Demon27 December 2014 at 06:47

      Sorry this one came out of my head, pretty much went to the legal width that was permitted in the UK and worked the rest from there. If you need any help of the top of my head feel free to ask.

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  5. JusticeNeedsNoReason23 January 2015 at 02:50

    Could you tell me please what is the legal width for tow dollies in UK, what is the average 'best' wheel centre width for the average car being towed, and what is the best width/size to build the 2 tow pans, and distance to place them apart, meaning the ramp width and length, left to right, for the two wheel pans, and finally how high are the 2 pans off the ground? hope this makes sense. Bob Yorkshire

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