carrying plywood

[Hank]

g'day! i'm trying to get a definitive answer about interior dimensions. i'm looking into getting a delica, and i need to be able to fit sheets of plywood and mdf into the back. the sheets are 97" long and 49" wide. can a delica take it?

any comments would be appreciated.

[fishslapper]

the delica can fit 4 by 8 shees of plywood with no issues !! I think one person on here said they fit 15 sheets. I have only put in 6 sheets.

cheers

[BCDelica]

Fold the seats down flat, cover with a trap to protect, I've only carried 8 sheets of 1/2 inch.

Cheers

[Green1]

there's room for 4' x 8' sheets of plywood stacked up to 4' tall on top of the folded flat seats in the back.
You can put 12' lengths of 2x4 inside if you put them between the front seats up to the dash.

And all of these are with the rear hatch closed!

length inside from the back of the front seats to the tailgate is approximately 8'4" to the dash is somewhere between 12' - 13'

[ExplosiveAbe]

Just last week I picked up a few sheets of 49" x 97" mdf & it fit no problemo!

[asorensen]

Yes, but.... It is a bit of a pain loading, or unloading for that matter, by yourself. This is especially true of the 49" MDF. I have found that you can't just slide the 49" material in or out without contacting the narrowed section of tailgate trim. This will leave scratches in the trim which you may or may not care about. After the first time for me I chose not to care!

Andy

[Schwa]

You can also fit a full-size 3-seat couch in the back when you remove the seats, just in case you ever have to do that.

[ExplosiveAbe]

I've found that if you lean a couple 2x4's from the back of your folded down bench seat to the ground, you can slide the sheets up. When you get close, just tip one corner up so it clears the narrow part of the rear hatch. A couple additional well placed 8' 2x4's running from the rear bench to the "bump" behind both front seats & you can slide it all the way in, tipped up, until you clear the narrow part of the hatch. After the first one's in the rest are a breeze.

[marsgal42]

I've never carried any full sheets of plywood in Gumdrop, though the first thing my former boss did when he saw the size of the load bay was whip out his tape measure to see how big it was.

Notable cargoes have included 15 packages of Ikea flooring, and my 18" StarSplitter telescope. It requires some support hardware, like a small stepladder to reach the eyepiece, and custom ramps to load and unload it. You move it around with wheeled handles like a wheelbarrow. http://www.telescopebluebook.com/reflec ... litter.htm

...laura

[BCDelica]

my 18" StarSplitter telescope. It requires some support hardware, like a small stepladder to reach the eyepiece, and custom ramps to load and unload it. You move it around with wheeled handles like a wheelbarrow. http://www.telescopebluebook.com/reflec ... litter.htm

...laura

Too cool, do you have a camera mount for your telescope?

As a microscopy photographic specialist, from years back, have been trying to dig up some pictures exchanged with me from a friend with similar scope. There somowhere in the half dozen DVD backups of pictures I brought with me, including the crystal fractal pictures I took around the same time. It's 3 am here, I give up.

Cheers,
Kev
The tired thread hijacker

[marsgal42]

Too cool, do you have a camera mount for your telescope?

As a microscopy photographic specialist, from years back, have been trying to dig up some pictures exchanged with me from a friend with similar scope. There somowhere in the half dozen DVD backups of pictures I brought with me, including the crystal fractal pictures I took around the same time. It's 3 am here, I give up.

No, because a Dobsonian mount is not suitable for astrophotography, though they are exceptionally stable and useful for visual observation. An equatorial mount (one you could take pictures with) for an 18" scope would weigh more than Gumdrop does and would be a serious piece of observatory equipment.

When I want to take pictures of stars I use a Takahashi TOA-130F telescope on a Losmandy G-11 mount. Here is an example of what the combination looks like http://www.astromart.com/articles/artic ... cle_id=563 (not one of mine). Here's what it can do (this is one of mine):

M13 in Hercules.

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...laura

[Hank]

thanks for all the feedback! all good information.

hank

[mararmeisto]

We loaded a dozen 4'X8' sheets of drywall into the back of Moon Machine, once. Another time, carried plywood that size, 8' 2"X4"s, a bunch of 14' ones (all at the same time) and the rear gate was only tied open a little bit.

I'm still wondering if ghmorris ever did get that ATV into the back of his machine. I think he would had to buy an L200 or a Strada to do that properly.