Did a search but came up zippo. Looking for pads that will do bigger rockets. I have a 16" dia one and our pads did not like all that weight hanging off to one side. Show me what you've got. Thanks.
I built it, and its .083 wall (iirc) 3"x3" steel tube, weighs about 75lbs and is very stable. If I were to use longer rails I would use a guy line system for stabilising the longer rails, but 12' rails are stiff enough. I built a system that uses the 10' Unistrut rail as a receiver and the 1515 and 1010 rails a fitted with "shoes" that slide into the Unistrut and a single pin holds the rails in place (Unistrut is bolt to vertical arm). The pad is entirely no tools required (or to loose in the dirt). It has +/- 15° vertical tilt adjustment.Hey Rich. that looks very nice. Do you know how much it weighs? Did you build it or is it available from someone? Thanks, Dave.
Yep, each leg has a 3/4" x 18" long concrete forming stake that a washer has been welded too it driven through a hole in the tab that put there for staking. For leveling I have some 2x4 wood block with a 1" hole drilled in them that can be stacked (visible on left side front) to get the pad level.Rich, is it anchored to the ground? Looks like spikes on the ends of the legs?
I looked at them, very nice. The problem ours had was there was enough play in the vertical lock that it allowed them to tip a bit. And no adjustment. Wonder how these would compare? Might work really well with guy wires running down the the feet.You might try: https://www.frankumperformance.com/pads
So do we, driving stakes is usually not an issue, normally we would not have put the pad in the location we did, but the farmers had harvested the sod a few days before. We use stakes on many of our pads, as long as the sod has nothing more than a stake shaped hole in it there isn't an issue, of course our farmers happen to be about as awesome as we could ask for. They even burned the area between the sod circles off for use on a bad fire hazard year (we had asked if we could mow the area), they got it done by the local volunteer FD as a "practice" wildland fire.We fly off a sod farm.
Would have to check if driving stakes would be ok.
We do have some nice pads, and yes I am biased as the majority of them were built by me!Ours are pretty good also, but yours sound great. Guess I'm moving to WA.
In that case buy a lottery ticket, a lot farmers out here aren't necessarily that receptive to hobbyists and most areas are dryland wheat the ladt place rockets are wanted. The lottery ticket would have better chances of winning than finding supportive host landowners.I am sure your pads are great, but I was meaning your land owners
What are the biggest projects that have been flown off unistrut rail?
I am going to build a larger Coker style pad that is bolt together. My plan is to be able to disassemble it and being able to replace parts without welding.
I like my pads 'portable' that fit in my car. This pad fits on the passenger seat of my Honda Civic.
photo with Citrus College NASA USLI two-stage rocket for the year the competition was held in Utah.
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