Trailer Tail Boom Support

Alot of thought and research was put into this thing.

It looked simple and once we made up our minds what we were going to it didn't take any time at all to fabricate. Some people have a 50/50 shock absorber installed inline in the vertical bar. What it is supposed to do is take the shock of the pounding road and keep it from transferring to the tailboom. Homer and others have been using such a system for many years with terrific results. My thoughts on it are with a 50/50 shock installed and one of those continuous rail road type pounding roads that the shock would allow the tail boom to rachet down causing our tail boom to fatigue. The vision I have on my mind is the constant pounding from below driving the shock to compress would be the dominate force. If there wasn't time for the shock to get back to the neutral position it would just keep going lower and lower. We decided to go with a solid support since the latter system seemed it could have issues. At the top it has several adjustment holes so it can telescope.

Just about every time we load the ship in the trailer its tail boom is at a different height.

As the rear skids spread out the tailboom drops and when the front skids spread out it gets higher. A hard landing on one or both sides has large affect on the gear. Simply turning the ship while rolling it around on the factory ground handling wheels affects this spread to. That I contribute to the wheels sitting at such an angel constantly trying to pull the rear landing gear apart. There needs to be a better way of rolling our little ship around.

So far we've pulled our helicopter almost 10,000 miles and to date we haven't had any problems with our tailboom.