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Offline Cameron 77C3

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« on: February 05, 2008, 11:23:49 AM »
G'day lads.

With this wet weather I'm sitting here trawling the net.  Found this.

Now I'm not sure if I would trust my pride and joy on these, but the chap reckons they will hold a bull dozer.

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"Have you ever wished there was an easy way to get your Corvette up in the air so you could comfortably work under it?  Here is a safe and inexpensive way to construct a set of portable ramps.
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The ramps are indeed easy to build.  Both sections are built identical.  The ramps are 10'9" in length.  You can construct them from 2"x10" or 2"x12".  In this set I used 2"x10" and then nailed a couple of lengths of 1"x6" on each side on the bottom to give some extra lateral support.  (If you use 2"x12" you will have more room to place a hydraulic jack under the frame in case you need to place jack stands under the frame).  The top and bottom are 2"x10" or 12" with 2"X10" ..............................."


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Offline silver1

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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2008, 11:51:21 AM »
steel must be expensive over there
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2008, 01:33:59 PM »
Steel's expensive everywhere at the moment, thanks to very high demand from China and India.

When I was a kid, a guy who lived a few doors away used to service his car and ute on somehing similar. He was a chippie, so a wooden solution was a natural choice for him I guess.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2008, 02:30:38 PM »
macgyver ;-)
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2008, 06:24:37 PM »
I'd want a steel frame!
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2008, 07:18:55 PM »
Well if it can hold your house up....
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2008, 10:00:14 PM »
the best ever set of ramps ive ever used were a solid wooden block with a slope cut chainsawed out of it.nothing like this....picture a steel ramp made out of solid wood.....measured about 3ft long a foot wide and 1ft high....sooooo easy to drive up onto.....the steel ramps i have are not bad,but i have a bit of a hard time getting the front onto them....tends to push away from the wheels.....i ended up putting the steel ones into a groove in concrete.....the wood ones were great.....just inched up to them and drive straight up....they never moved....weighed about 20kg each though....bout the only trouble i had was if they were wet and trying to get the back wheels on..gets a bit of spin up.when i was a lad we used to drag them out into the park and use them for a ramp on the trusty bmx bike.(even broke my collerbone on a jump gone wrong.)......alas the white ants got them after 25 yrs of use.....
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2008, 09:19:24 AM »
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Originally posted by MADVET
Well if it can hold your house up....


Your house has slightly more interconnecting pieces of wood to stop it from falling on you.  After a few years of moisture I wouldn't trust my life under those ramps!

Oh, and I have a steel framed house.  ;-)

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