So apparently there was some footy game on today, but i had bigger fish to fry (not literally because I can never get out to fish!!!)

I've been planning to get around to installing a trailer walkway since getting the boat about 2 years ago and today was finally the day. 

My trailer is an older roadmaster with a long draw bar so when retrieving I either get a wet bum or try to do a circus impression which has nearly ended in tears a few times.

This is how it started out.

And my materials, 600mm wide aluminium walkway, 150x75x12mm Galv u-bolts and some 30x30x1.6 Galv square tube.

So I basically cut the walkway into two sections, one long section for the front of the trailer and one shorter section for the space above the axel.

I also cut the square tube into 500mm lengths and drilled them so the u-bolts could go over the draw bar, through the walkway and through the tube to act as support and the means to clamp it all up.

The rear sitting in place.

The front sitting in place. I had planned to frame the entire walkway with U channel but the stuff I got when I bought the walkway turned out to be too small. The walkway was about 23-24mm thick and the inside of the U channel was 20mm. So i had to settle with just shaving the ends of the walkway with the grinder to get at least some channel on it to protect from losing the skin off shins.

And this is what it looked like just before I squared it all up and bolted it down. The picture from underneath shows how it was all mounted up.

Turned out to be solid as a rock. 

Hopefully I'll get to give it a try soon enough!

Cheers

Steve