I want to add some green touch racks to my trailer, do most people bolt them to the trailer or do they weld them? My thinking is it would look pretty obvious if someone came over and started unbolting them. Just trying to save 75 bucks to have a welder weld it on.
Should trimmer racks be welded to the trailer or is bolting ok?
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I want to add some green touch racks to my trailer, do most people bolt them to the trailer or do they weld them? My thinking is it would look pretty obvious if someone came over and started unbolting them. Just trying to save 75 bucks to have a welder weld it on.
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I bolted them on, 1 bolt through the upper rail and 2 through the larger bottom rail. I used a locking nut, and with how hard I torqued them on using my impact wrench I would love to see someone get it off by hand.
I've thought about spot welding the thread on the bolt, would make it impossible to remove without cutting the bolt off but it would be more easily removable than welding.
I've thought about spot welding the thread on the bolt, would make it impossible to remove without cutting the bolt off but it would be more easily removable than welding.
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Don't weld them once you do the wire will eat part of the base up it being galvanize then say you get anew trailer need to cut them off just be nasty mess if you got light and get the trailer supports!!!! I use to weld the nasty crap for years highly poisonous also
http://www.trailerracks.com/extensions.html
Use hydraulic loctite = blue better than red mine hard ware never moved over 2+years when I moved rack to new trailer
Square tubing use the long bolts thats all you need you will be good I suggest getting engine supports also if you value equipment then your set best racks ever
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It's not the flux it is the galvanize once you burn into it with mig release those white flakes in it and that is the poison builds up in liver takes forever to filter out naturally nothing you can do will help it has to filter out your body naturally you will never experience pain like galvanize poisoning it is gawd awful
What pics yyou waiting on? My equip thread lol.
I'm doing good to even get on here now 3 new client and all this extra work killing me I passed out Tues evening 5:30pm lol
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The spot weld on bolt is great idea Jeremy
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A wise man once said: Anything built permanently is a monument to man's stupidity.
We always bolt unless there is no other way than welding.
We always bolt unless there is no other way than welding.
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Welding isn't permanent, you just grind the bead down
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Unless you're daft, you get the point.
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Bolt it on.
I hope you have some beefy rails with those green touch racks. I have aluminum racks made by Gridiron. I would not trust the top of a piece of angle iron with my trimmers. Too much flex.
I hope you have some beefy rails with those green touch racks. I have aluminum racks made by Gridiron. I would not trust the top of a piece of angle iron with my trimmers. Too much flex.
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All good information here. I'm wanting to get the extreme 2 space trimmer rack with motor support and bp blower rack too. Just kind of apprehensive with different posts on here saying how the mounts came loose, people loosing trimmers, shafts snapping etc.
I'm glad READY TO MOW posted and SOUTHERNTIDE posted those great pics of the installs. I have the low side light angle. Are those supports mandatory if only using 1 trimmer?
I'm glad READY TO MOW posted and SOUTHERNTIDE posted those great pics of the installs. I have the low side light angle. Are those supports mandatory if only using 1 trimmer?
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Mine bolt on. To inside of 2ft side trailer, just run about 3 bolts through it each rack. Then double nylon lock nut then take a hammer and smash about half the threads of bolt.
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You must be one of those pinhole welders i use to fix their stuff all the time you could break the weld by hand lol my welds broke the test press when certified
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I have not seen a post of greentouch racks saying they came loose please share lol
All I ever used was BLUE - Hydraulic loctite never worked off I live on some of the bumpiest crap roads you ever seen too and they take them daily for years no issue only roads I have seen worse is Mississippi wheewwww
The Greentouch/xtreme racks I bought from Northern Tool came with triangular pieces of metal that bolt onto the two holes at the bottom of the rack on each side (visible in southerntide's pics), oriented so the triangle points down. You then bolt them together across the trailer rail, so you end up with two bolts vertical and one horizontal. If you don't use them, the racks will vibrate and waggle some, but with those braces they stay in place very well.
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Southern, how do you keep that mower so clean? Do you take it to the car wash and pressure wash it? Mine still has mud on it from 2 months ago. lol I just take compressed air to clean mine off.
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That was a 2016 loaner I had for a month and slammed a 100hrs on while waiting on those Kawi carbs
But they put my unit in wash shop while it sat down there to the nuts and bolts it looked brand new the day I did got it back lol getting back to dusty and brown/green now it's normal working color
Not good to pressure wash them
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If youre talking about the thinner plates those are for enclosed but can be used to mount up front on A frame along with the aluminum pole mounts like in the pic the 2 pieces that secure the motor support mounts
I have though about mounting on mine up front after mowing stops
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What pics me creating a thread? I got bad case of CRS going on lately to busy haha
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