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shempdowling2(at)earthlin
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 Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: towing 6a |
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Im moving into a hangar with a pretty steep ramp at the entrance, requiring
some means of towing. Im wondering if the tail tie down is strong enough to
be used to pull the plane in.
Im also considering buying an old junky mower to push it in but then I'll
have to come up with some king of tow bar.
Shemp/Jeff Dowling
RV-6A, N915JD
265 hours
Chicago/Louisville
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klwerner(at)comcast.net
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:03 am Post subject: towing 6a |
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Dear Jeff,
I would not use the tail tie down, but rather get an old riding lawn mower and use a towbar on the nosewheel instead.
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Dale Ensing
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Location: Aero Plantation Weddington NC
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject: towing 6a |
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Jeff,
If you have someone who can do some welding for you I'll send you the
details of one I made for my 6A. Works very well. I tow it with a John Deere
lawn tractor up a grass hill to my hngar. '
Dale Ensing
RV-6A N118DE
Aero Plantation NC
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Hopperdhh(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject: towing 6a |
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Jeff,
I'll probably need to get my Nomex underwear back out, but I was faced with
this same problem. What I do now is taxi the plane into the hangar, and use
the tow bar and gravity to get it back out. That's been working very well.
That may not work for you, depending on the type of hangar you have.
Dan Hopper
Walton, IN
RV-7A Flying -- 150 hours
In a message dated 4/3/2006 1:47:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
shempdowling2(at)earthlink.net writes:
Im moving into a hangar with a pretty steep ramp at the entrance, requiring
some means of towing. Im wondering if the tail tie down is strong enough to
be used to pull the plane in.
Im also considering buying an old junky mower to push it in but then I'll
have to come up with some king of tow bar.
Shemp/Jeff Dowling
RV-6A, N915JD
265 hours
Chicago/Louisville
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der_Jagdflieger(at)prodig
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: towing 6a |
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Jeff, running it in under power works but so does pulling it
in with a relatively inexpensive 12 volt boat trailer winch
(hooked to an old battery removed from the plane) hooked
to a cheap battery charger that is on a timer to run for
30 minutes to top off the battery after running the winch.
It pulls my RV-6A with an 1/8" cable hooked to the tail
tie-down into the hanger up a slight grade and over a
1-1/2" tall angle iron mounted on the hangar floor as the
support track for the Horton Stackdoors. The 12 volt
winch is turned on and off by a 30-foot long piece of
extension cord with a pushbutton switch at the end letting
me steer the nosewheel with the tow bar as the plane
is pulled backward into the hangar.
This scheme has worked for me at two residential
airparks over the last 25 years.
Howard Walrath
RV-6A N55HW Flying 460 hours
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3edcft6(at)cox.net
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject: towing 6a |
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Hopperdhh(at)aol.com wrote:
| Quote: | What I do now is taxi the plane into the hangar, . . .
I'm with you on this one and if I ever get around to building my RV I
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will do almost the same thing. If the prop pitch would reverse, I would
back it in(I hate backing out, much more than backing in), but I plan on
getting in the plane in the hanger and taxi it out. And yes you can be
110% sure there will be nothing the prop wash can send flying around the
hangar
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shempdowling2(at)earthlin
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: towing 6a |
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Please send it Dale. I need to come up with something.
Thanks
Jeff
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