"All-terrain" main wheel dolly

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:15:06 AM UTC-7, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 12:09 18 December 2014, John Galloway wrote:
At 06:52 18 December 2014, Bastoune wrote:
All,
Thanks for the inputs.=20

Frank - If I picture what you are describing, the glider is rolled onto
a
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ish that somehow holds the main wheel. There are two 10" wheels that are
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fset from the dish and connected to a handle. By applying pressure down
on
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the handle, the dish is lifted (almost like a hand truck) and the glider
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comes mobile. I assume that this contraption is all metal, correct? How
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g was the handle approximately? Thanks B.

We used these for many years for hangar packing too. The whole thjng
was steel and the handles were around 12 feet. The main wheel sat in a
ring. There were many trailing edge dings to the wings over the years
fro

the handles so we switched to main wheel dollies.

John Galloway

I saw one of them when I was at Portmoak in September, can't remember
exactly where but probably around the original hangar.

True, they must be used carefully to avoid hangar rash. But don't we always use great care moving gliders in, out, and around hangars?

Frank Whiteley