Same idea, more common - manhole covers. Available from a street near
you...
Sal's Dad

wrote in message
oups.com...
If you can find them locally, a couple of scrap trainwheels work well
too. ....and they have a handy hole in the middle to run your chain
through.

Matt

Terry K wrote:
How big a boat?

An engine from a T-bird might just do. All it needs is a trip through
the car wash to get the oil and crud out of it. No big deal.

I used a truck engine to moor my SC22 for years, and the local marina
guy dropped a concrete mooring he cast in his own yard into my
beachfront for 250 bucks, delivered. He told me it needed to cure on
land for a couple of weeks to satisfy the enviromaniacs.

Terry K

RE. getting the train wheels "out there" .

When we set up my dad's mooring, (4 trainwheels) we simply sued the
anchor roller on his Bayfield 23 with a 2 part prushase led to a winch.
We'd pick up the wheels 1 by one, take them out tot he mooring aite
and lower them to the bottom..

Matt


Sal's Dad wrote:
Same idea, more common - manhole covers. Available from a street near
you...
Sal's Dad

wrote in message
oups.com...
If you can find them locally, a couple of scrap trainwheels work well
too. ....and they have a handy hole in the middle to run your chain
through.

Matt

Terry K wrote:
How big a boat?

An engine from a T-bird might just do. All it needs is a trip through
the car wash to get the oil and crud out of it. No big deal.

I used a truck engine to moor my SC22 for years, and the local marina
guy dropped a concrete mooring he cast in his own yard into my
beachfront for 250 bucks, delivered. He told me it needed to cure on
land for a couple of weeks to satisfy the enviromaniacs.

Terry K

On 5 Jun 2006 05:33:24 -0700, wrote:

When we set up my dad's mooring, (4 trainwheels) we simply sued the
anchor roller on his Bayfield 23 with a 2 part prushase led to a winch.
We'd pick up the wheels 1 by one, take them out tot he mooring aite
and lower them to the bottom..

Interesting approach.

Any idea how much they weighed?

Did you lower each one with an attached chain and then shackel all of
the chains together at the end?

wrote:
RE. getting the train wheels "out there" .

When we set up my dad's mooring, (4 trainwheels) we simply sued the
anchor roller on his Bayfield 23 with a 2 part prushase led to a winch.
We'd pick up the wheels 1 by one, take them out tot he mooring aite
and lower them to the bottom..

Matt


Sal's Dad wrote:

Same idea, more common - manhole covers. Available from a street near
you...
Sal's Dad

wrote in message
groups.com...

If you can find them locally, a couple of scrap trainwheels work well
too. ....and they have a handy hole in the middle to run your chain
through.

Matt

Terry K wrote:

How big a boat?

An engine from a T-bird might just do. All it needs is a trip through
the car wash to get the oil and crud out of it. No big deal.

I used a truck engine to moor my SC22 for years, and the local marina
guy dropped a concrete mooring he cast in his own yard into my
beachfront for 250 bucks, delivered. He told me it needed to cure on
land for a couple of weeks to satisfy the enviromaniacs.

Terry K



Any trainwheels available in the Nova Scotia area ?

Thank you,
Courtney

Courtney Thomas wrote:
Any trainwheels available in the Nova Scotia area ?

Any active trainyard should generate them on a regular basis, and they're
common fodder for steel scrap yards; I've never *not* seen a pile at the
big local one.

They seem to be around 500 pounds per, based on the "I can barely lift
this up on edge, and really don't want to have my toes under when I let
go" metric.

andrew m. boardman wrote:
Courtney Thomas wrote:

Any trainwheels available in the Nova Scotia area ?


Any active trainyard should generate them on a regular basis, and they're
common fodder for steel scrap yards; I've never *not* seen a pile at the
big local one.

They seem to be around 500 pounds per, based on the "I can barely lift
this up on edge, and really don't want to have my toes under when I let
go" metric.

Availability in Nova Scotia? Good question...they closed the big
maintenance yard in Moncton (20 miles over New Brunswick border) about
20 years back. Then they opened a new maintenance facility in
Halifax...which now houses a film production company. Montreal may be
the closest full maintenance shop in the East. We are a major train
terminal here re port traffic and end of Trans-Canada passenger service,
but I haven't seen any wheels lying around.