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Originally Posted by Abitibi
Smart design! Does your recent trip to BC has anything to do with your desire to be protected from tree branches Have you consider simply using a stainless cable running from the roof to your front bushguard instead of tubing? David
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The design parameters included good air flow below and between the panels, no shadows, light weight, protection for the vent and the ability to tilt the panels. The only thing I missed was the ability to tilt, but I didn't have enough time, that will happen next fall. I considered using cable as limb lifters but that would have required fabricating mounting points on the fiberglass roof anyway (the GTRV fiberglass top extends all the way to the windshield). A combination cargo basket, and light mount will give me a place to mount the exoskeleton tubing that will run from the basket to the front bumper tubing following the body lines, with a brace or two tieing it into the fender. It will be much stronger and should look pretty cool. I've been planning this for a while, but the brush in BC certainly added to my sense of urgency. Still, there are plenty of overgrown trails just about everywhere I go, and I seem to have a desire to see the end of most of them. Now, even Mrs A/T see's a trail and says "I wonder where that goes?" In the beginning, she would freak out and say, "YOUR GONNA SCRATCH THE PAINT!", but as Rally P/A once said, "I ain't saving this rig for the next guy"