jmorris Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 New club opening up in north Texas and the range doesn't work well for carting everything around like has been done in the past. So we are working on a trailer that will haul everything at once. Starting with a $50 boat trailer and adding everything "skid" style. A angle iron box at the very rear holds all of the feet for the walls and the popper rack is up above that and allows them to be stacked ready to be used with the angle already in them. Put all of the real heavy stuff in the rear so hopefully we won't need to move the axle forward once all of the walls (going to be A frame style, 8' and sticks on one side and 4'/6' walls on the other), stands, fault line sticks and buckets for the bays are on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBIKE101 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Man, are those keystone classics? Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flatland Shooter Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Excellent use for an old boat trailer. Its looking good. Looks like the racks will hold 18 poppers. Add all the other goodies, that will be one heck of a load. Where will the new club be located? About 15 years ago I shot at the Dallas Pistol Club when it was on Belt Line Road. It would be nice to see something located north of town. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoot4fun Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 The name of the new club is DFW Practical Shooting Association. Still working on the website for the club but it will soon be dfwpsa.com We will be shooting at a new range off of 121 near Anna TX. The range is called Red Zone Ranch redzoneranch.com. It is less than 30 min from 380 and 75.... much closer that we have been driving. We will be shooting uspsa on the 2nd Sat and 4th Sunday starting in September. Any questions feel free to contact me mike@selectarms.com. Thanks Mike Cooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2alphaplease Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Looks good! I wonder if the popper rack will hold up long term with all those poppers hanging out there in cantilever? Might be okay static but hit a big enough bump and dynamic loads might be an issue. Looking to do an equipment trailer at our match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 As there are not prints for this project I figured another day of work/waiting for photos would be better than a few words. The rear popper holders are only part of the frame the "A" frame that holds the stands and walls is also tied into the frame. Full it will hold 36 x8' walls, 6' walls, 4' walls, 144 target stands, 18 poppers and a bunch of stands for the walls. In the center of the A frame will be the 2x2 foot fault lines. Barrels for stakes and spots for 5 gal buckets of other stuff are to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 Well the little boat axle didn't look so hot after we piled everything on there so we swapped it out for a 7500# axle and moved it a foot forward while we were at it as it had a bit too much weight up front for the 4 wheeler. Also added a box for all of the stakes up front and an expanded metal platform for swingers, drop turns, tx stars, 5 gallon bucket for each bay and all the other stuff that we will need but not leave on the trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Norman Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Interesting design. We are in the process now of setting up 5 trailers. One stage per trailer. Each will have about 6-8 walls, braces, target stands, sticks, steel, stakes, fault line etc. We will also distribute some of our movers among the trailers. We will have at least one additional trailer for movers and maybe a smaller one for classifier stages. Having everything mobile is the only way. We already have a similar set-up at the second club we all shoot at and it it sweet! Park the trailer at the pit and the crew builds the stage, at the end of the match the squad on that stage tears it down and loads the trailer, all we need to do is to direct the traffic so that the trailer is loaded neatly. Makes set-up and tear-down a much easier faster job. Allows more shooting is less time. If any club has the storage space we can strongly endorse having trailers for your match prep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Aaron and Mike finished welding the lock/chain rings on and painted it yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted September 8, 2012 Author Share Posted September 8, 2012 It worked...a few mods on the books but a lot less a$$ whoop than what we do with the IDPA gear. One truck, one trip (for now). Not locked down like in a shipping container but if your not a scrap man not a lot of call for a boat trailer with stuff all over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RePete68 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolguy Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Anyone building a trailer needs to know that for towing on the road, at least 60% of the weight put on the trailer needs to be in front of the axle in order to prevent fishtailing at highway speeds. If the trailer fishtails it can cause you to lose control of the towing vehicle and have a bad accident. For towing around the range at low speed doesn't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) This is correct, not having enough tongue weight will take you on a hell of a ride. Having too much is also a problem. I'll also throw in that a boat trailer axle is too far to the rear for what we did. The thought of all the poppers and 3/8 plate steel wall feet on the back was to help balance the load. In the end "what if we also had..." made it too heavy on the tounge thus the moving forward of the axle. Nothing up front weighs a lot but there is a lot of it. Sort of like the question, "what does a ton of feathers weigh?" Edited October 21, 2012 by jmorris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBIKE101 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 came out nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Norman Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 This is a pic of one of our 5 stage trailers. Base trailer cost is about $1000.00. There is about 2 lengths of 2 x 2 angle and a sheet of 3/4 plywood per trailer. Took us about a long day to build the trailers and another to get them loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted March 17, 2013 Author Share Posted March 17, 2013 Never have seen using pre made fence as a wall, how to they hold up with being moved around? Also how do you store all of the trailers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Never have seen using pre made fence as a wall, how to they hold up with being moved around? Also how do you store all of the trailers? Those walls seem common in PA & NJ. They make for nice stages. We grabbed a couple for our local club. They are pretty heavy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Never have seen using pre made fence as a wall, how to they hold up with being moved around? Also how do you store all of the trailers? Trailer storage is accomplished in cargo containers -- think the box from an 18 wheeler without the wheels. They're 40 feet long and hold 4 trailers for us, as long as we lower the tongue wheel, so the back of the next trailer to be backed in can slide over the tongue of the previous trailer..... IIR, I'll try to take some pictures.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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