And Rack em In 1930, British aero engineer and aircraft builder Richard Fairey paid the Vicar of Harmondsworth £15,000 for a 150-acre plot to build a private airport to assemble and test aircraft. A single grass runway and a handful of hastily erected buildings later, and Fairey’s Great West Aerodrome was born. Here is what we recommend to “rack up” your ROXOR for the hinterlands: 1. Hi-Lift Jack with Hi-Lift adjustable tube mount (TM-700) for 1” to 2” tubes. Sand ladders and mounting pin kit: Try Maxtrax, a lightweight, handy off-road vehicle extraction device that fits in your ROXOR ensuring an easy way out if you encounter a boggy.
Lake Raccourci
If you haven’t got your licks out yet for the upcoming season, you’re running behind. Proper licks do a lot more than just draw deer into your area during the hunting season. Good licks contain vitamins and minerals essential to wildlife’s growth and need to be out all year and especially in spring and summer.
Deer need lots of minerals and vitamins for rack growth and strengthening. Nursing deer also need large amounts of nutrients in the milk to pass along to fawns for health and future growth. Having these supplements in your licks not only attracts deer but also nourishes them.
One of the best mixes I make myself is 1-part stock salt, 1-part dicalcium phosphate, & 2-parts trace mineral salt. I buy all these ingredients from a farm/feed store and purchase them in 50 lb bags. I mix the 200 lbs together in a wheel barrow with a shovel and then divide it evenly into four 5gallon buckets yielding approximately 50lbs of mix per lick. I will occasionally buy and mix in bags of Rut ‘N Apples to give it a sweet taste and smell, and always do this for new licks. I then find a location to place the lick based on proximity of stands, location on the property, and available camera mounting structures. I dig a small whole and pour 80% of the mix in. I then lightly place the loose soil that I dug up back on top. I do this lightly as to allow the deer to find it in the soil easier and to dig it up. I then scatter the remaining 20% on top to increase the awareness of the lick. After licks have been used for years, these steps become less critical as they will develop a pond and you just pour the mix in. The purpose of the stock salt is to attract the deer and keep them coming back for the salty taste. The dicalcium phosphate gives them the calcium they need for hardening the rack and for bone strengthening and structure in fawns. And last but definitely not least the trace mineral salt provides the minerals to promote rack growth.
For a quick lick I use a product called Buck Jam Apple by Evolved Habitats. I buy 50lb trace mineral blocks and then use the Buck Jam to give a sweet coating and attractant to the block. Often times the trace mineral alone won’t attract deer like salt or other sweeteners, so the Buck Jam adds the extra addiction to get the deer to use the blocks and consume the mineral and promote rack growth.
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Regardless of your choice of minerals, salts, or supplements, GET THEM OUT NOW. You can thank me later.
I needed to get the door pins installed so that I could lock the doors in their proper location to get the final trimming done. It’s a cart before the horse thing, as it’d be nice to get all the trimming done but you need the pins first. But to get the pins, you need to trim the doors. Lot’s of half finished steps to complete the other steps here.
I’m using several aftermarket modifications as well. The PlaneAround center latch is a no-brainer for its functionality and safety aspects. It provides a cam in the center of the door to help close the door and ensures both front and rear pins engage the fuselage to keep the door closed. It also basically makes it impossible to close the door with only one pin engaged. The danger is potentially life ending, as several accidents have been caused by doors opening and separating from the airfarme. Nothing to joke about here, you have to do this right and know the severity of the impacts.
I’m also using the low profile handles from Aerosport which are very nicely built and are a bit more high class than the standard Van’s handles. With that being said, it means following three sets of directions that all leave a bit to the imagination. Of course, I don’t read directions well so I started off by cutting my door racks according to the stock plans, not in half as I should have. That looked like an expensive mistake, but VAF came through and I got a new set for the cost of shipping thanks to a very helpful fellow builder.
The door rack and gear system is simple once it’s all put together but is a bit challenging in assembly. I was able to work through the plans, however, and soon had all of the parts cut, created, and cued for final assembly. It all comes together very well in the end as long as you take time to ensure a smooth operation of the mechanism. I’ll be filling in around the nylon blocks on the door’s edges so aren’t too concerned about looks here.
I also added cam locks to be able to lock the doors. While they aren’t completely bullet proof, they will provide some security and deterence for people to not mess with the airplane or its contents.