Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

A quick rummage later...



Perfect-ish... it fits perfectly, but won't hinge like the one above, as it sits right up tight against the spare wheel’s tyre

But... I only want to make some space to quickly get to the Quick Strop -



That we throw around trees to get a tug off them...

So...



If I cut it as per the yellow line and hinge it so the front opens up and flops down into the winch rope area That will give us quick access to the tree strop!

Great idea!

Ooooh! shiny bits! -



These just arrived in this mornings post, from Floflex who I have remained friends with (they used to supply all my polyurethane products when I was Bits4Vits). So I still throw the odd part into their plating pile...



The handle I made to influence where the winch rope spools onto the drum, with a bicycle handlebar grip on it to finish it off...




And the figure-8 plate to finish off the “monkey face” :laugh: errrr, the bracket that holds the snatch block pulley above the big winch hawse fairlead (that will allow me to also winch backwards)

Bit more today...

Left welding up the half-door top, as that can be done on a "quite quiet" Wednesday, although we think our eldest daughter will be returning darn sarf at the end of the month...

So...



I marked out the box section that needs "bending" for the front wing top... referencing photos off this fine forum and the original cardboard templates...

I'd cut about half of the indicated slots when me ol' mate Brett arrived I'd advertised my un-used / brand new mountain bike on facebook a few weeks ago, and this was our first opportunity to complete the sale now that we're slowly getting out of the lockdown So we had a good catch-up chat and a look around the buggy... Brett headed off with his "New" bike, and I carried on cutting.. (The proceeds of the sale of the bike will be used to get a replacement windscreen fitted towards the end of the build) Thanks Brett! .



Slices made, and you can see the box starts to bend the "wrong" way as the cuts set it free to bend...



Some of the cuts are widened out with a thicker cutting disk, and the the hand winch is used to bend the box round...

I then drew around it and cut out a cardboard template to check...



That the radius of the bend matched the other side that I did a good while ago...



I also marked the position of the wing top bracket / plate for the front mudguard...



And then welded it all up



Referencing the driver's side I then marked out the material that had to be removed...



GONE!

And then...



Ground and sanded the "bent" box section flat...

There's a few bits that will need a small weld and sand when the welder is next out, but the bulk of it is as intended

I then ended the day with a bit of a fun job...



Having flushed the petrol jerry can out earlier in the day, I marked the cutting lines...



And then cut them out with a slitting disk in the angle grinder...



... finishing off by hand with a hacksaw as the disk wouldn't reach down passed the "spout" of the can



I then tidied up the edges (so they're not sharp and also ready for paint) and added the hinge at the bottom...



And one of the four matching-keyed padlocks on the top, fixing to the filler cap so it looks like it's securing the fuel inside...



But it actually folds down to reveal the quick-link tree strop for getting a tug off trees from time-to-time... so it's quick and easy to retrieve it...



It just needs bolting to the low "wading wall" behind the seats and to the perforated steel sheet to the left, before final painting...

THANKS to "JimnyNL" for the idea from his post linked earlier

No work on the buggy tomorrow (Wednesday is my usual day off in the week) as our youngest daughter is flying back to Malta to resume her nine month dance contract over there that was curtailed when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we managed to get her out on one of the last flights out of Malta and she's been back in the nest for months, but now she's about to go back tomorrow... so Dad's Taxi is booked for the airport run...

Looks like your rope monkey has eaten YELLOW bananas!

HUN wrote: Looks like your rope monkey has eaten YELLOW bananas!

That's supposed to be the final colour