smally21

the difference between the injuries suffered by people not wearing seatbelts and those that do is huge. not to mention ive never seen someone ejected from a vehicle that was wearing a seatbelt. cars very rarely catch fire during accidents, unless on tv. you have to survive the accident first, then get out of the car - wether it is on fire or submerged... i was at an accident a while ago with a kid who had supermanned from the back seat and was perfectly lodged up to his waist in the windshield with his hands by his sides - 2 other passengers uninjured in the back seat...which one had a belt on? if you want to get put back together by the shared healthcare system you have to play ball and wear your seatbelt. (kinda same issue as motorcycle helmet) as for side impacts i know what your sayin' FFA but it keeps you in your seat - consider 2 people in the front seat getting broadsided - the impact caused few injuries but neither was wearing their seatbelts, they smacked their heads together like a couple of high speed lovebirds - perhaps seatblets may have restrained them...can't say really - and you can be ejected from side impacts unrestrained occupants, pets, coke cans, etc become deadly when they are flyin around the car @ 120km/hr to suggest seatblets dont work is kinda like saying 50 years of automotive safety engineering was all a scam and that "I" know better than the entire auto community.. take care wear your seatbelt!

i was with you until the walmart part. lots of other places to buy light bulbs than walmart. if you want to rant about buying canadian and protecting canadian jobs you can't in good conscience shop at walmart. buy your light bulbs at canadian tire there is a chance some of your money will stay in canada. the chain sells almost all offshore goods, invented bully economics, whose single purpose is to destroy small stores and small producers, take them over or eliminate them.there is no better way to funnel your money straight out of the country than to shop at walmart.

they are all thru the bay at depths down to 5 feet, so they are in. but they are catching them off port maitland in 60 feet, so they are out. the perch hung around the north shore in limited quantities all summer it seemed. 8 out of 10 times you'll catch perch in port dover, but there is only a 50% chance of that.

looks like 3bs at tamar in the first pic

never owned one, or towed with one, but drove one as a work truck for a while. got terrible mileage and nobody liked driving them. they made terrible work trucks couldnt hold squat or handle heavy loads. we asked too much of them im sure but when they went back to full size they saved money on gas. the 4cyl colorado was something i would only drive if my boss made me... kinda cool looking, personally i think my tacoma is twice the truck but costs alot more ( and everybody thinks what they drive is the best or they'd have to admit they should have shopped further). trucks will never acheive advertised mileage its an EPA rating and seems to be pulled from a hat. if you beleive those ratings a fullsize chevy could drive to thunder bay on a single tank when in reality cant get to north bay i considered buying the smallest truck possible to pull my boat but came to the conclusion i wouldn't be happy with the decision..maybe my wallet (or my ego) is bigger than my brain..

welll for example cerka is 45 for the brake, vs 80, i havent priced the whole job or anything. i already have brakes.

forget the disc brake idea. im only saying that cause i never embraced it. to me the industrial nature of the application doesn't fit disc brakes, but i could stand corrected here. ive never put disc brakes on a trailer. i talked people out of it but it could be because i didn't know enough about it to come across as an absolute know it all, a feature i felt very important when dealing with customers. the PA axles aren't the same quality as alot of the dexters out there, but sometimes they actually sell dexters so the argument goes phht. the electric braked axle @ 220 from PA is a very good price. the problem is the spring center is what it is, no custom sizes. i know nothing of excalibur prices. just they are local to the TO set. cerka will sell over the counter. the discount they give after buying a few hundred sets of axles was staggering. but there over the counter prices are very, very competitive. i have priced lights at 40$ each they are 9$/pair at cerka. they are not a retail outlet like princess, but they do over the counter sales. do yourself a favor have all your measurements and stuff ready when you call. they have a website now. i think that 750 is a reasonable price for a guy to crawl around your trailer for 3-4 hrs, and sell you a few hundred in parts. it kinda hurts to think its about 30-40% the value of the trailer to add a couple of brake drums though. if cost is a big issue go electric buy the brakes and drums and DIY it. its gonna run you a couple hundred smackers but if you want them....

have you considered one of these? perfect to get the ice fishing crowd out to the island..... it eats bicycles for fuel, and the occasional atv

a little off topic but a funny thing about electric brakes... so a common error when wiring a 7pin plug with the diagram in front of you is are you looking at the rear of the plug or the front of the plug. if you make the simple mistake of thinking the wiring view is from the front you would wire the 7pin completely backwards. the end result is the brake signal from your brake controller (reduced signal) is now the left turn signal (100% power application) so i build a 38 foot tri axle with 21000lbs of carrying capacity with six of the biggest brakes you can find. take her out for a test drive and of course at some point put on my left turn signal. you will never understand the awesome braking power of your trailer until you try this. when the blue smoke cleared i had broken all records for 100km/hr to zero stopping distance.

and gum stays in your stomach for seven years.....ive heard it lots of times and to be fair i built 100 surge brake boat trailers for every electric brake boat trailer. it is more traditional for utility, landscape applications. consider that trip down the highway in a pounding rainstorm, lights and brakes are as wet as they are gonna be with high pressure water getting everywhere.. the signal coming from your vehicle for lighting and braking is, in the bigger picture, negligilbe. im not going to say it can't happen but ive been up and down the boat ramp 50 million times with plugged in lighting and electric brakes, never been a problem. in my experience electrical equip. that behaves improperly when wet or submerged already has some other problem, poor connection, wire almost grounded, etc. at the end of the day however, my boat trailer would have surge brakes... some of my more demanding customers (ontario hydro, opp, parks canada, toronto fire, etc.) wouldn't consider electric brakes so i guess i wouldn't either..

have to ride faster i guess.

trailer brakes can only improve your safety and ride quality. not to mention lengthen the lifespan of your expensive vehicle brakes by beating on your cheap trailer brakes... if you travel alot with your trailer every state and province will have different regs, so adding brakes might get you closer to complicance... IMO opinion any trailer built with a 3500lb axle should come equipped with brakes, if you are able to load it above the legal limit you probably will!!!at some point. kinda like a customer with a super light 30' boat only wants a single 3500lb axle. sure its legal and works in his application but some yahoo could put a 30' twin engine cruiser on it..

good for you - i saved about 15k on my stratos. do it again in a heartbeat. show is what ya got when she comes in...

legal requirement for brakes is loads in excess of 3000lbs. i find the easiest/cost effective method is to switch out the entire axle assembly. or you can just change the hubs. either way -- for electric you just swap out the idler axle for a braked axle and wire it up. same coupling. pretty inexpensive if your vehicle is already wired for brakes. for hydraulic you put on a surge brake coupling in place of your existing coupling, and swap the idler for the braked axle. then you run a piping kit from the coupler to the brake drum, then across to the other drum. bleed the brakes and you are done. this is the more expensive option but then you dont have to add the electric brake controller. parts cost depending on your choice of axle/hub replacement will be between 150-450. takes between 2-3 hours. if you are local to milton there is a great distribuor there. ive installed hundreds of braked axles if you want to pm me i can fill you in...this is a do it yourself job with a socker set and a car jack... and what you are towing it with really doesn't matter to me.

if she seems really, really interested in you - it might not be what it seems....

ha - top shelf BB - earned a few of those of late...

UHMW - ultra high molecular weight plastic. - short version cutting board. sold at lee valley and other wise hard to find. PA plastics in hamilton has it but not so local for you. home depot sells clear plexiglass - might not come think enough. steel city surplus in hamilton sells blocks and sheets i use it for woodworking setup blocks. sometimes princess auto has it. if you can't find it locally maybe i can help you out from here...check any plastics sales or forming outlet in your area. good luck

So you see normy, the stoichiometry gives (118lb of C8H18 reacts with 400lb of Oxygen to give 353 lb of CO2 and 162 lbs of water). So per pound of gasoline burnt you get 1.42 lbs of water. Density of gasoline is around 6 lbs / gal and that of water is 8.3 lbs/gal. Plugging in those numbers you get 1.03 gallons of water are produced per gallons of gasoline burnt. Now to be able to compare apple to apple, I convert the water produced per mile of travel. Assuming 25 miles to a gallon average of a US Car that works out to be : 0.04 gal of water produced per mile " i also have here in my pocket, a potato that looks exactly like nixon. gee thanks cliffy, your knowledge of hydrocarbons, or at least your ability to quote their properties from the internet, is truly astounding. congrats, another member humbled. maybe you should be less serious....

im no pumpkin lover but i cant beleive the size of these things - and they grow in a single season????? steroids? growth hormones? a gourd the size of a small car!

"and the real answer is".....i guess that means all other answers are just garbage? until you have spoken? "I think this is more like it: So the stoichiometry gives (118lb of C8H18 reacts with 400lb of Oxygen to give 353 lb of CO2 and 162 lbs of water). So per pound of gasoline burnt you get 1.42 lbs of water. Density of gasoline is around 6 lbs / gal and that of water is 8.3 lbs/gal. Plugging in those numbers you get 1.03 gallons of water are produced per gallons of gasoline burnt. Now to be able to compare apple to apple, I convert the water produced per mile of travel. Assuming 25 miles to a gallon average of a US Car that works out to be : 0.04 gal of water produced per mile " seems like a huge pile of effort whose only value is to discredit another memeber. no contribution whatsoever to the original topic. ya know you can make posts on here that don't require going after everyone else's comments.

lucky guy! i was thinking the ending the ending was gonna be different when he looked down the barrel. 60 seconds for a misfire!!

my tastes lean more towards sportbikes, i ride an R1. but that is a beauty! do you ride it or just look at it? should turn some heads!

most of the fish i catch in the harbourfront area are covered in lesions and boils of unknown origin. the anchor comes up out of the bay covered in inches of thick oily slag. when i was a kid at sailing school on the bay we'd overturn our boats in rough weather. if you accidentally swallowed some water you would puke almost right away. bodies way of telling ya something. i've been advised by local marinas to flush the motor every time you go in the bay due to the water being so caustic. who cares what the book says. if ya want fish tonite try the fish market. i wouldn't eat a 4lb bass from any lake that's a personal thing....

this scam is like every second add. its been going on for over 5 years. in nigeria a job of `internet scammer`` is about as respectable a profession as being a doctor is here.

there are painting poles and hydro switching poles that are very long - you could just bash it with one. another idea is a hoseline or pressure washer.... i was gonna say 12 guage with some 8or 9 shot but its tough on the soffet...