Benzine
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 08:39 PM |
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Car lift storage
So you want to store a car above another car but can't afford the above ^
Any ideas on locost car storage? The car on top would be stored long term and it doesn't matter if it takes a couple of hours to get it up there
(as opposed to pressing a button and hearing some whirring for 30 seconds) I've got a new workshop with oodles of height and it would be great
to free up some more floorspace.
Best idea wins a pie.
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mookaloid
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 08:58 PM |
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Easy - you just need a full size one of these
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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stevegough
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 09:04 PM |
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Might take more than a few hours, but you could dismantle it, and then rebuild it on the upper platform. Then when you want it down again, all you
have to do is do it again.
......do I get a pie?
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
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First drive Feb 10th 2011.
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'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
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oadamo
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 09:14 PM |
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dig a big pit drive it in then board over it
or just use a couple of cranes lifting a platform
[Edited on 13/3/11 by oadamo]
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HowardB
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 09:16 PM |
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have you got a mate with a beaver tail?
if so just build a mez floor, then drive onto the beaver tail, add some ramps and drive off onto the mez.
Otherwise do it the long way, build very long ramps up to the mez floor,..... =)
I can think of other solutions, but they mostly involve belief in steel fabrications,.. and access to winches
not a lot of help I know, but seriously, the first thing to know is how far off the ground you want the upper car?
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again  and goes zoom)
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Benzine
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 09:21 PM |
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no access to beaver tail lift, cranes, forklifts etc 
quote:
Originally posted by HowardB
the first thing to know is how far off the ground you want the upper car?
so it clears the lower car by, say, 6 inches. Something like 160cm
[Edited on 13/3/11 by Benzine]
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PSpirine
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| posted on 13/3/11 at 09:38 PM |
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I can think of a few but given that I think you can get one of these lifts for about £700, alternative solutions wouldn't be too far off (a few
hundred quid) but would be crap in comparison. You'd need 4 winches and a lot of beefy steel. Winch the car up along a 4 post frame, then simply
prop up the platform by inserting steel tubes into the posts.
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