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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 8:20pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
NEXT TIME ....on WHEN FAILURE ISNT AN OPTION. Building a boat lift that can lift 2 Jetskies at the same time and can also be used to lift a boat when the Jetskies are not around.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 8:17pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 8:16pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
This is the face of a happy guy.
And the face of a guy way just escape gbese
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 8:10pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
After some time whining the thing...I come shift back go look under the boat. I see say the thing don suspend. And this is highest tide o! so the lift worked. at low tide the boat you see here would be almost 1m above the water level. so I took more pictures from different angles
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 8:08pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Asquare84: Na so o! during rainy season all the tributaries from the mainland empty into the rivers and they come with a lot of sediments so that's why the water is murky. |
Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 8:02pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
The more they turned the winch, the boat started moving upwards ...which was a big relief for me. Then I noticed the handle of the winch needs to be converted to a big wheel so the turning would be much easier. That's what I did next time I visited the site.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 7:59pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
It was high tide so the ...
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 7:57pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
So I told the boys to dey whine am
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:52pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
As we dey go, I tell the boat driver to allow me drive small. At least if I die if the thing no work ...make I use this trill enjoy my remaining life. I can't come I kill myself before them kill me
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:47pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
I just remembered this boat carry 2 massive 200hp engine for back. each of them about 220kg if i remember correctly. depression just set in. I regretted coming to Lagos immediately
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:41pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Said a little prayer. and thinking what could go wrong? I have crossed all my T's and dotted all my I's . I just had to submit to my God jare...no be me Sabi pass... if I eff up. I'm dead. even the man way sublet to me didn't come for the testing. fear no gree am. his staff sef no come. My brother and sisters, for this life na only God you get o! and your mama. My mother dey on top this matter too o! she knows the meaning if e no work. 2 Likes 1 Share
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:34pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Here with only 20% liver left, I just hanged on. as long as I'm breathing ...let me just stand here. I can't come and kill myself
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:30pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
My self confidence continued to fade with every passing minute. Here only half of my liver still dey work. Had to put on a straight face though.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:24pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Had to park at the jetty, so I can join the boat to the test site.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:21pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Don't try this with a Toyota Hilux. if not na 2 boats you go lunch that day.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:19pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
When the jetty personnel said salt water will destroy my car I didn't answer him. me I know say I won't allow the salt water to even touch my tyre talk less of my chassis
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:15pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
I paid for a jetty the previous day ...from where I planned to lunch the boat into the water. Here's me practicing how to drive an articulated rig in reverse. I give kudos to our trailer drivers who do this everyday. Again! don't try this at home.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:10pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Hooked the rig up and ready to move. please don't try this at home.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:08pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Kulverstukas: Total tonnage was a little less than 700kg from calculations. yes I sprayed the entire thing with galvanized paint. since the materials were already galvanized and I used stainless steel electrodes all through paint wasn't that important to me so I bought ordinary galvanized paint they sell everywhere and spray painted it with an auto painter. |
Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 6:03pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Had to use my truck to tow the boat....as them no gree tow am by themselves. this wasn't part of my contract ended up bending my tow bar now my truck looks like a lowbed from behind ...I regretted it but even today I don't think I had an option.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:59pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
D Day the tension was unbearable, God na your hand I dey. But I had to pretend I was normal in front of everybody. truth be told, no be be stand there. I died a thousand times and woke up each time because of my mother
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:47pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
installation was very stressful because we had to respect the tide. I was using a website that shows Lagos tide levels and times of lowest tide and times of highest tides. that was the only way o! because for one I don't enjoy my balls coming in contact with that smelling water This water hyacinth, it's like them swear for am. one minute the water is clear, the next 10 minutes water hyacinth will just appear from nowhere and cover everywhere... When they disappear too it's as if someone turned their switch off. you come the next day you won't be able to find a single leaf.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:38pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
During installation, we couldn't take even a single picture because we were inside the river. I lost 2 spanners to the river and if I lose my phone we won't be here today.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:27pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Installation time.
Oh my ...how I hate coveralls
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:23pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
We left the place just as we met it
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:19pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
Next it was time to go. Dismantled the entire thing. another reason why I used bolts and nuts everywhere so that I can carry it easily. There was also no access for a crane or HIAB at the river bank so when we get there, installation has to be entirely by hand.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 5:05pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
I was just anxiously pacing about ...sweating and doing mass per unit length calculations with mass per unit length parameters I got from Google ...looking like a scared maniac...that's how I arrived at 699.35kg. After everything sha, it lifted it and held up. it was even bouncing like a bouncing boat lift 1 Like 1 Share
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 4:55pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
I decided to test the lift with heavy beams someone was selling beside me. had to pay the man just to use his beams as a load on the boat lift. then paid the boys that helped me load it on the boat lift. Total weight I was able to get around was 699.35kg. if it can lift this one ...then there is hope ... I don't want to say what was going through my brain while they were loading all those heavy beams on the cradle...I don't wish that feeling on my enemy.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 4:46pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
The hard wood completely bolted unto the cradle bars. flush bolted for obvious reasons. I was initially contemplating wrapping the hard wood with some kind of rug or conveyor belt but the thought of being called back after 2 months for maintenance works inside that smelling river had me changing my mind. I go just paint the hard wood galvanized colour
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 4:39pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
That's where I sit to think about the next step and how to go about it; or how to solve a problem.
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Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 4:34pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
mexxy1:people say that everywhere I go, pls remind me |
Autos / Re: When Failure Wasn't An Option (boatlift Construction) by EkoErrands: 3:33pm On Jan 03, 2020 |
These bolts holding the hard wood had to be flush mounted so they don't scratch the hull of the boat. I can't allow my work to kill my client ...I love him 1 Like
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