Well, that's what I get for just turning my back
and walking away.
About had a wreck.
Anyway, thanks for tuning back in this week
to see how I'm gonna ship this wheel.
I gave it a kind of a lot of thought,
pondered long and hard about how I was
gonna do this.
Initially, I thought I was gonna lay it down.
That was my intention, but
a couple of things were kind of nagging at me
one, that this is an 80" wheel
and the length of my forks are only 48 inches.
So I was just gonna barely get under the half way
point of this wheel
and I was concerned about keeping it balanced.
Then I got to pondering, if I laid if flat
it's be pretty easy for the trucking company to put
other boxes, or what other
cargo on top, whatever,
so that kind of bothered me.
So I thought maybe I'd probably stand it up.
And also I think it would be the most efficient
use in the
trailer, as far as space goes.
So then if became the question of
how do I stabilize it to keep it upright,
cause it'd be kind of top heavy.
Well, I had a little extra large pallet here.
Most pallets are 40 by 48
I had one that was 48 by 50
so that's the one I chose to use.
And I put a half inch sheet of OSB
on top of it to kinda give it
a little better foundation
And then, in the middle of that, after I
got it pretty well screwed down, I put a lot
of screws in this whole thing as you'll see as we go.
But, uh, underneath, where the wheel is gonna set,
I put another 3/4"
piece of OSB underneath it
to take the weight of the wheel itself.
So, I hope it'll work.
We'll see how it kinda goes.
It took me a long time to crate this up,
and there was a lot of stopping
and pondering, and, well,,
what am I gonna do next?
So, not to say that I really had this all
well planned out.
I kinda flew by the seat of my pants and
it kinda just evolved.
So, this is what happened and
we'll hope it works.
So, it's supposed to be about a five day delivery time
from Montana to Virginia
So, sometime next week
we should maybe hear how well it traveled.
Yeh, we hope we crated it up sufficiently.
So, once again, thanks for watching!