custom ATV dog racks ?

[redriverslim]

Anybody building lightweight dog racks for 4-wheelrs?  I saw a guy at Uncle Earls a few years back that had some.  They were lightweight, diamond plate.

[NathanDoss]

Look up Will Smith on Facebook. He'll build it.

[Slim9797]

Will is a good guy. He's probably fixing to be building me some kennels. Look him up on FB or I can get you his number.


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[Cajun]

Nothing fancy but here is what I built. 1/2" square tubing frame with diamond plate riveted to it.

[charles]

cajun,
how are those rivets holding up? a while back, not even sure if it was an in person discussion while hunting or on here, but i had made a comment of building boxes out something similar and riveting it together and someone started crap talking saying rivets wouldn't hold up and they would break and pop out and all sorts of garbage. he said the reason for the breakage was due to the vibrations the boxes would endure. i explained to him that aircraft are held together with rivets and he said bull crap, they would fall apart. i guess arguing with someone who has no knowledge of aviation is senseless, which i why i just left it at that and didn't say anything back.
but since you used I'm sure regular ole' home depot style pop rivets, how is it holding up and have you had to replace a bunch?
the only thing i will agree with the a-hole who said rivets wouldn't hold up, is this. i put a steel floor in my boat and used regular ole' aluminum rivets from i think tractor supply. took the boat out for a test spin and at full throttle hitting the waves, the cheap rivets DID pop out, nearly 80% of them. i went to my unit i was in at the time, got some aviation grade stainless cherries (high grade pop rivets) and the pneumatic puller gun and didn't have a single 1 pop out. granted they were 2x the size of the cheap rivets i put in, but either way, they seemed to hold with no issues. i guess if i hadn't put pro-seal down where the steel touched the aluminum for chafing and vibration absorption and the steel hadn't bonded to the sealant, the flooring might have did a lil bouncing and popped ALL the cheap rivets.

[Cajun]

Charles on those boxes alum. rivets hold up well. I put them every 4". Those boxes are several years old. I could see why you would want stainless steel rivets on a boat tho. That is a quite a lot of vibration on the water.

[charles]

 it wasn't that i wanted stainless, but thats all the sheet metal guys had in bulk that they could "get rid of". the aluminum rivets of the same size would have held up just the same, but they didn't have enough to justify the inventory miscount. plus with the pro-seal on the bottom and if i would have pro-sealed the rivets when i shot them, they wouldn't have popped out, even under the stresses and vibes of being on the water. just look at how much vibration a/c have, especially a helicopter. it beats the air into submission as if flies through the sky. i know our chinook is a rough ride, front seat and in the back. during some of our ferry flights, there is a panel that isn't reenforced very well and that dang thing throws out some bad vibes, i can feel the vibration several inches away from the metal, al most a high freq vibe and the surrounding rivets are holding just fine, no cheesing or signs of fatigue.