I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories,
or tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck,
with over bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly
neighborhood streets.

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Roger Long

Roger Long wrote:

I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories,
or tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck,
with over bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly
neighborhood streets.


Have you considered putting it on top of two pickups, one at
each end?

DSK

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories, or
tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck, with over
bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly neighborhood
streets.

--

Roger Long

As long as you're accepting ANY thoughts... I think it's a horrible idea. If
it's absolutely necessary to move it, I think I'd try to get a local flatbed
trucker to move it for me. :-)

DSK wrote:
Roger Long wrote:

I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories,
or tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck,
with over bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly
neighborhood streets.


Have you considered putting it on top of two pickups, one at each end?

DSK


Wouldn't you take a chance of twisting or bending the mast as one truck
hit a pothole of dip in the road while the other stayed level?
I'd heard of some sailors who don't want to use a tongue mast crutch
when trailering their dingy. Seems with one end tightly fastened to the
boat and the other to the tongue mounted crutch, the mast can't flex
uniformly.

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:00:12 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories,
or tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck,
with over bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly
neighborhood streets.

My old rigger in Connecticut used to move masts as long as 70 feet
that way. He had a full length rack extending out to the front
bumper. With a 40 foot mast you've really only got about a 10 foot
over hang on each end if you can support it in the front, perhaps with
an "X" frame to the bumper.

It depends how far you have to go of course, and in what kind of
conditions.

Hall Spars in Bristol, RI uses a small trailer dolly that supports the
mast at about 2/3rds of its length, with the long end going to the
truck bed. They go up and down I-95 with some pretty big masts using
that arrangement.

"Wayne.B" wrote

My old rigger in Connecticut used to move masts as long as 70 feet
that way. He had a full length rack extending out to the front
bumper. With a 40 foot mast you've really only got about a 10 foot
over hang on each end if you can support it in the front, perhaps with
an "X" frame to the bumper.

When we were in the rigging business we had masts delivered exactly this
way - The truck was a 3/4 ton and had supports off the front bumper and the
back of the box. They also delivered full length furling systems this way
using a mast for support.


Hall Spars in Bristol, RI uses a small trailer dolly that supports the
mast at about 2/3rds of its length, with the long end going to the
truck bed. They go up and down I-95 with some pretty big masts using
that arrangement.

My next door neighbour used to bring his C&C 30 mast home every year using
this method except they used their car with a single roof rack. The mast
was supported at the end on the roof rack and the back end on a small
2-wheel trailer. The mast was held own using large rubber bands cut from
old inner tubes.

We delivered masts ourselves using a tandem boat trailer (normally used for
a 30' boat) - we had three supports such that the mast sloped forward and
overhung our tow-truck with minimal overhang at rear.

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:00:12 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, experience, horror stories,
or tips about self moving a 40 foot mast on top of a pick up truck,
with over bed rack. The move might involve some highway but certainly
neighborhood streets.

I drove a 25 ft mast back from Dallas to Altus (about 240 miles) on a
boat trailer with no drama at all.

I reckon a boat trailer with the 40 ft mast overhanging the bed and
cab, and a flag on the rear overhang might work for you, some early
Sunday morning when nobody's around....

Brian Whatcott Altus OK