Trailering a BC-12D pics

[mhorowit]

I seem to recall pics of BC-12Ds lashed down on a flat-bed, with wings at the side.
If you have such a pic or can point me to one, I'd appreciate it - Mike

[mhorowit]

Re: Trailering a BC-12D pics

The wings may have been strapped to the side of the fuselage, with the wing root lying inside the wheel and against the landing gear, but I don't recall how the wing tip might have been supported. - MIke

[Howard Wilson]

Re: Trailering a BC-12D pics

Stormin had some pics of his killer deer move. Where are you Norm?

[N43121]

Re: Trailering a BC-12D pics

I posted photos of my BC-12D being trailered on Cap't Jons web site. Look it up under N43121.

[Robert Lees]

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Like this?

[mhorowit]

Re: Trailering a BC-12D pics

I posted photos of my BC-12D being trailered on Cap't Jons web site. Look it up under N43121.

Yeah, that's what I was looking for click .
wings simply tied down, not necessarlily padded, though it wouldn' t be a bad idea; or, put the wings tied down under the fuselage with mover's rugs - Mike

[crispy critter]

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Mike,
Is that another t-craft that you bought being behind the silver dodge?Are you buying another t-craft,fixing to rebuild yours,both,or what????Let us know,we like gossip,especaily when it ivolves t-craft.

[mhorowit]

Re: Trailering a BC-12D pics

Mike,
Is that another t-craft that you bought being behind the silver dodge?Are you buying another t-craft,fixing to rebuild yours,both,or what????Let us know,we like gossip,especaily when it ivolves t-craft.

Kev - not yet; I got the quote from the insurance folks and did elect to buy it back. I have someone I work with interested and I'll give him until mid-week to make a committment; if he sez nothing, I'll post an announcement with pics. The salvagers offered $4000 for it, so that's my buy-back cost and that's what I'll ask.

I've located a Tcraft about an hour away, but it's in pieces. Yea, I know, that's a sure sign parts are missing but I really want to work on one and my insurance co. wants me to wait a year before asking for insurance, and someone has offered me hanger space at the grass strip where I want to relocate to and he has a full shop.... . And there is another Tcraft on the field so if I want to see 'what goes here' I can walk over and look. My A&P will do a pre-purchase this week, and it looks good for being able to straighten out the registration. The only part I don't like is the missing engine log, but I may be able to sleuth out who did the alleged o/h. And I want to learn how to weld and a friend in the office said he'd loan me an O/A rig 'on indefinite loan' as he has moved to MIG, and the welding supply place says 'sure, we'll fill those tanks', and I've located a source of scrape to practice welding with and I think I"ll order some scrape tonight from Aircraft Spruce so I'll have some tubing to practice with, and I know how to say 'fishmouth joint', and my body is healing very well thank you, and I may have located a tailwheel instructor close by that the FSDO likes, and I think Tom is willing to straighten out the fuel line problem in his engine compartment, and he's said I can rent his Tcraft, so things are as fine as mouse hair right now. There. So, how's by you? - Mike

[mhorowit]

Re: Trailering a BC-12D pics

I posted photos of my BC-12D being trailered on Cap't Jons web site. Look it up under N43121.

How is the fuselage secured? at each wheel?
As the wheelbase is 8 feet, that trailer must be about 9 foot wide, right? - Mike

[mulwyk]

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Mike:

We moved our T-craft cross country on a 18 foot by 8 foot car trailer. Wings are supported on the leading edge with side racks made of 2X4's and 1X8's bolted together. Foam insulation was used as padding under the leading edge. The wings are strapped to the side racks, and do not touch the fuselage.

We removed the engine and horizontal stabs. All components are light enough for two people to load by hand.

This rig ran over 1000 miles at freeway speeds. We stopped every 100 miles or so and tightened the straps on the wings and fuselage. Crosswinds over 20mph were a problem as the trailer wanted to fly and tried to push the rear end of the car sideways.

Bob Gustafson

[mhorowit]

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Thanks Bob - Mike

[ROllerton]

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I can offer, from experience, that if the wings are in a near horrizonal situation and the covering is mostly intact, and you get them in the wind they will want to fly.

They will want to fly so bad, they will pull on your ropes with the same force they produce to lift your plane and payload.

And after awhile, your ropes will start to feel sorry for them and just decided to give them their freedom. And if you are lucky, you are on a lightly traveled county road with nice soft tall buffalo grass on the median.

So if they are flat on the trailer under the plane, do something to the leading edge to make them not act like wings. I think wrapping them with movers pads will do it. Or else maybe some low side boards (rip a sheet of plywood in two 2' strips?) on the trailer to keep cross winds from striking the leading edge.

Also, I had to move my Taylor A on the same "popular" BigTex tandem car trailer many of us have come to own during a moment of weakness. The A gear with tires were too wide for the trailer. I did not want to remove them at the time I loaded it because the seller was a real ass, I did not have any help, I wanted to get the hell out of there before anything else went wrong. I was lucky and found a blacksmith and (she) welded some 2 foot long by 1 foot ramp like extenders on the sides at the rear of the trailer. With a couple of 2 x 12"s and a winch I was able to roll the plane's main wheels up on the extenders and tie it down at the main wheels and the tail.

bob,

[Jim Herpst]

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Mike, I have hauled three Taylorcrafts on a 12 foot trailer that is owned by a gentleman named Xen Motsinger who in his 40 some odd years of messin with airplanes has hauled 25 Classics on this very same trailer. Some of you (Baker Boys) know him .He is a senior judge of the Classics and Antiques At Oskosh and Sun N Fun. In short the man knows planes AND how to haul air planes .Once about three years ago I bought an L2 (L2s by the way are very long and as you read you will be more intrigued!!) in St Paul.He and I drove up there with his little trailor behind my F-150 .We set the gear where it crosses on some wood we scrounged up. The whole gear/wood shebang sitting on the tounge of the trailer (this was so the wheels would not hit the road! ) We then put down a little padding on the trailor and set the wings leading edges facing down with the wings then up right on each side of the fuselage and straped secure to the fuselage (this was a project so cutting the fabric and wrapping the ratchet type hold down straps around the spars and through the fuselage was not a problem). The fuselage itself is then SECURELY tied down again with ratched type tie down straps to the trailor itself. Then you use nylon rope and lash every thing again. It works. We hauled this plane all the way back ...some 1200 miles through Chicago expressways and all ..all the way back to Columbia South Carolina. I hauled two other Taylorcraft projects by his same method on his same little trailor ..shorter distances but withthe same positive results he has had again over 40 years and 25 classic taildraggers!

[N43121]

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Mike, the trailer was about 8.5 to 9 ft wide. Secured the fuselage with ratchet straps attached to the gear legs near the axles ... leading fore and aft. Also had straps at the tail section, but I forget exactly what I connected to (may have cut into the fuselage fabric and attached to tubing directly). The wings were padded, although it's difficult to see in the picture. Since I was taking it home to tear it apart, I think I cut the fabric on the wings and strapped directly over the spars. If you are hauling fuselage and wings after a rebuild, you would probably want to do it the way that Bob Gustafson did it.