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Originally Posted by euromodder
I hope it didn't blow over again.
Was it badly damaged ?
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We had constant high winds here all last night, with gusts 50-60mph. The trailer was still upright when I arrived at my shop this morning. So I'm still thinking it was low-level wind shear when it blew over last week.
About $2k damage, not counting the grand it cost me to turn it right-side-up.
4 roof bows, 10 feet of new roof, one upper corner structural member, and one side radius panel. It could have been much, much worse. When it was on its side, I thought the wrap on that side would be completely totaled. But astonishingly, there was only a couple of tiny, almost in-perceivable, scratches in the wrap. It woulda cost me prolly another $10k to re-wrap that side.
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Originally Posted by KamperBob
Sure makes me wish I had proper CFD capabilities to investigate... (sigh)
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One of our sponsors is SolidWorks, so we do have the $14k SolidWorks Flow Simulation CFD program. We just never ran it at a yaw or direct crosswind angle. Mayhaps we will now.