For us with trailers, this cheap wheeled big box might be worth considering. Available from 26th October, while stocks last!
Aldi 145L "Heavy Duty" Trunk £17.99
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That is the exact item I alreay have and use with my CF xl modded trailer.
The price is excellant at £18.
The price is excellant at £18.
I thought it looked familiar. If I buy one I'll have to buy Carry Freedom's crazy priced box nubs, and drill holes into my CF Small Y for those nubs sometime later... I'll kick one around the store to see if it's worthy, then buy one which hasn't been kicked around the store.
This looks like the same product for £29.88:
This looks like the same product for £29.88:
They have 4 x 90/100mm plastic wheels underneath but they are no good for a flat bed trailer , I simply popped them out .
I wondered about that - depending on how high the wheels hold one end of the box base above the trailer platform, it might be viable to screw a thick enough wood rectangle under the box so that the wheels aren't making contact, then make or buy CF nubs to bolt through the wood and box base. Wheels would be useful to keep on if possible, it's a big box and heavy when filled.
Pricey bits of plastic:
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Pricey bits of plastic:
Carry Freedom Location Feet for Box
Four location feet for Y-Large and Y-Small for fitting a box to the load bed surface. - Supplied with screws, nuts and washers - Height: 26mm - Compatible with the folding box 800 x 600mm with honeycomb base
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I'm transporting garden veg, not gold bars... at <10mph - how fast can starving people run anyway? Whatever speed they manage to attain staggering in their weakened state, I expect they'd soon pass out and fall.
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Only if you're willing to pay in gold bars for pumpkins, and not without a bunch of extra batteries, tent, supplies etc - that shop you bought your 48V batteries from recently, don't stock 36V! Besides, I don't sell veg. I'd be lucky to find them - behold my pumpkin patch:
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Thanks, I'll try that. Saves drillings into my expensive CF platform. Expensive to replace with a genuine one that is. If I manage to get to Aldi before the small stock of such things disappears, I'll test it with a heavy click and collect, marking the outline of the box to see if it moves and by how much.
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That's a very useful feature of the Homcom too. Sturdy steel tubing keeps big heavy items inside the trailer. The box on CF would be for carrying PC motherboards etc. surrounded by padding and thoroughly waterproofed. They're harder to grow than pumpkins, need the right weather and nutrients (solar panels instead of leaves).
710mm any good?
59cm?
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96 Litre.
Outside Dimensions: 700mm x 500mm x 370mm
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This one's bigger than Aldi's - 175L and £33.95:
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thanks, just ordered the 84l version of the first one, twice as deep. trailer is 750 x 570That's a very useful feature of the Homcom too. Sturdy steel tubing keeps big heavy items inside the trailer. The box on CF would be for carrying PC motherboards etc. surrounded by padding and thoroughly waterproofed. They're harder to grow than pumpkins, need the right weather and nutrients (solar panels instead of leaves).
710mm any good?
59cm?
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96 Litre.
Outside Dimensions: 700mm x 500mm x 370mm
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Product Dimensions (H)x(W)x(D):
(H)40 x (W)42 x (D)77cm
This one's bigger than Aldi's - 175L and £33.95:
I have one of those as well for use with the large CF base, both types work for me and are fully water proof. For better visibility I have added a few strips of diamond high viz tape to the boxes.
Also rivetted a right angle ali strip to the rear to attach some rear blink mode lights also my flags for extra visibility, to many idiots on the road today.
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Great! Do you mean this one? Nice find! I might go for those instead, looks like it'll fit inside the Homcom as well as the CF. I could stack two high and compress with straps. I also might forgo Aldi's bargain because I cut open a finger this morning and it won't stop gushing blood, making an Aldi shop messy.
Dimensions: W710 x D440 x H380mm
It's compression and that high friction CF surface layer. Those pricey feet might come in handy for extremely heavy items in a box however - a big cannon ball rolling about and violently hitting the sides with much momentum for instance. But less of an issue for dense pumpkins, which of course don't grow quite as dense. Lower iron content.
Adding rear lighting for the Homcom is easy - I'd simply make an extension cable for my bike's 1800LM rear red flasher and simply clamp it to the back of the trailer. Or two.
For the CF, I was considering using these Planet X lights you drew my attention to, which I use on my rhs handlebar end - they're easy to make red and are bright:
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It's easy to secure lights with Gopro-style mounts to a platform, one way or another, and in many ways:
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So I got one of these.. But currently have no trailer, my initial plan was to ebay a local kiddy trailer to rob the axel, wheels and tow bar from, having seen similar done in a utube vid some time ago.. Hell i just asked a neighbor who shops at aldi if he sees one and is up for it to pick me one up I didnt expect him to drag his mrs n kids round there specially for me first opportunity, but here we are...For us with trailers, this cheap wheeled big box might be worth considering. Available from 26th October, while stocks last!
So is the ebay-hackaday a viable option, or would the collective wisdom in here suggest an alternative solution?
Im not planning any long distance survival juants, just the occasional larger local-ish pick up that is currently beyond the bikes capacity. perhaps a big supermarket shop, not done one of those for years
and can anyone signpost me to need to know info on bike trailers Ive towed with a car and lorry but never a bike and anything i have towed has had brakes too.
can trailers be motorised within regs, of course they can be..
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