Blacktop
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 11:24 AM |
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Moving donor chassis
Have a bit of a dilema which I am tyring to figure out prior to starting my build.
What is the best/affordable method of moving the donor car once all the running gear has been removed. I can't strip it on the driveway as the
drive is on a slope so I plan to strip it in the single garage but then I will need to somehow move the bare chassis onto the drive for the scrap man
to collect?
Does anyone have any pics of how they managed to move their donor about once the running gear was removed?
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HowardB
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 11:34 AM |
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most scrap guys have a big winch, or a mechanical grab, or both, I am sure at the prospect of some steel they would find a way,...
I would ask your chosen "recycler" if it was going to be a problem,
hth
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again  and goes zoom)
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Mday41
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 11:35 AM |
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I am at that stage now and have got the striped sierra on the front of my house hopfully the scrap man can drag it off but i no it will ruin my
shingle and underlay!!!
m.day
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montythemole
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 11:39 AM |
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I've left a old shell on some lengths of timber before so it could be dragged. As has been said they tend to have HIAB so will stick the hook
through the roof most times!
1985 Dutton Phaeton Series 3 1300GT
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vinny1275
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 12:02 PM |
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Chop it into manageable chunks with the angry grinder first? That's what I did...
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 12:04 PM |
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Faced with the same problem a few years ago with a Ford Transit shell I cut it into four pieces with a firemans axe and took it to the scrappy in the
back of another van.
It sounds like hard work but in fact it's pretty easy and almost good fun
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andyace
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 12:09 PM |
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I dropped mine onto some bread trolleys I "acquired" from a local supermarket and just pushed it out with a little help.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 12:39 PM |
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lewis
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 01:25 PM |
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A couple of old airport trolleys I 'found' did the trick and had brakes to,now use one of them as a engine trolley :-)
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designer
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 02:07 PM |
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I put three shells at the bottom of my drive in Leeds and they were requested by scrap men within a day or two.
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hughpinder
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| posted on 29/3/11 at 03:16 PM |
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Ive chopped up a few cars using a 6ft crowbar with a chisel end. It took about 1.5/2 hr to cut up a saloon into bits that fitted into the back of a
large estate (several car trips to get rid of it all though). The hardest bits are the door pillars, its easier to chop through the body just
below/roof just above the pillars. Wind the windows down while you still can, then cut just unbolt the doors and cut just above the metal. the bonnets
were unbolted and jumped on to fold in half.
Regards
Hugh
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