exo-cage for stormchasing - falling branch protection

RogDog · Post by **RogDog** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:48 pm

Hi , I've been getting into chasing storms lately and recently was quite amazed at how much tree debris can occur in high wind storms. I'm considering an external roll cage, (exo cage), essentially to protect myself and my passengers in the event of large tree limbs falling on the car roof! anyone heard or seen anyone do this on an older subie wagon? anyone know the law in regards to such a project? to make everything more difficult i'm thinking of a removable design, and one that doesnt effect crumple zones too much. here's a doco I just made on the storm that's making me think of doing this..

Shepparton 156km/h storm, 2010

RogDog · Post by **RogDog** » Thu May 06, 2010 12:54 pm

I just found this body mod link..

http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/ ... eb2006.pdf

spike · Post by **spike** » Sat May 22, 2010 7:58 pm

so...................
your still goin got do it??

RogDog · Post by **RogDog** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 1:32 pm

still in the works, definitely wanna do it still, have installed a tradies roofrack for minimal protection so far.

spike · Post by **spike** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:28 pm

me fail english =)

i saw a thing on this on TV the other day from america, mainly aimed at stopping hailstanes but was pretty good still.

instread of going the old ugly exocage, or the expensive option of an amazing chrome one.

the one i saw had nets on top to catch them, but i was thinking of making some meshed guards, with steel outers and bolting them over the windows almost like the landrover in the original italian job. i reacon it would look good and still provide a fgair amount of saftey.

RogDog · Post by **RogDog** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:13 pm

sounds cool, the best one I've seen, apart from the 'TIV' ,'Dominator' and "Tornado Attack Vehicle" used Lexan sheets to protect windows from hail. My main concern is large branches. still having ideas, basically something to strengthen the roof supports

spike · Post by **spike** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:07 pm

how about a lot of triangulation?
with the lexan windows
triangulate a bar from the bullbar, to the roofrack and down to some side skirts
maybe install some sort of internal roll cage?

RogDog · Post by **RogDog** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:39 pm

cool spike cheers, I'll consider all options! The main thing is to do it in a way that won't attract too much police attention! here's what i've come up with for now, This is a prototype!

RogDog · Post by **RogDog** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:34 pm

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:40 pm

Looking good RogDog! Will you be adding a flip down cage protection for the windscreen and the rear one too? Pretty good idea, I just don't know how hard you'll find it to get out of the vehicle when the cage is down - or how you stop it from bouncing around when it is down...

Early days I guess!

Cheers

Bennie

Subaruman5 · Post by **Subaruman5** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:58 pm

Did you ever install the cage?

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exo-cage for stormchasing - falling branch protection

exo-cage for stormchasing - falling branch protection

MODIFICATION guidelines .gov.au link

Yep

stormshield prototype, v1.0