We made quite ambitious plans for February at the end of January, but we learned the hard way that things don’t always go as planned. Every now and then, the Texas winter gets quite extreme, and as we all know this year happened to be one of them. Despite our project being halted for nearly 2 weeks in February, we still managed to make some serious progress.
Firstly, we finally got the wheels onto the trailer base correctly, leaving only the electronics left in its assembly. Once we get the trailer base assembled, we’ll need to take it to the parking lot and secure it for storage due to its size.
We also took inventory of the parts that we need to order to complete the frame of the ramp, and began comparing vendor prices. We then met with Andrew Bittner from the UTD machine shop and got a good idea of how we need to prepare and order our components such that we can get the majority of the frame completed quickly.
Our plan going into March is to get all the parts ordered for the entire ramp and to begin cutting the steel tubing for the ramp frame with the help of the machine shop.
