During my preparations to erect a amateur radio station over Easter Weekend in Gamkaskloof, I realized that I sold my heavy duty Drive-On Car Stand and that I needed a stand for my portable mast. The previous stand was a real heavy duty unit that was difficult to move around and took a lot of space when transporting. I looked around my scrap metal and found a few pieces of metal to construct a much lighter stand. The plate with four holes in it lend itself to quickly put a new stand together. Not the neatest metal work but under the circumstances it will have to do and I did not want to spend money on buying metal for the project. Every single piece of metal used in this project was salvaged from my scrap metal box. The beauty of this design (not the stand) is that you do not need a car to hold the stand into place. Stones, sand bags or any other heavy weight placed on the stand will keep it in place. I am not going to go into construction details as the photos is more that sufficient to enable those interested to build their own.
I am looking at a few other designs and might build a few to sell if their is any interest. The above stand is really not an artwork nor a thing of beauty but I used what I had on hand and it works great!
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