Barking Mat
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Well, lifes short.
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I think it's great. I'd love the space for all your toys. Your work looks fun too. How the wife hasn't killed you I'll never know but you are sorting the house out which is good for brownie points.
Can't overlook all the nice alcohol too..
Can't overlook all the nice alcohol too..
Barking Mat
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Ahh, thanks, it's only because the house has got to a certain point.
A man needs a workshop eh? And God knows, I've been missing one for the last five years due to the house renovation.
I bougth my 4 post 18 yrs ago.
Hobby Land Rover's parking and maintanance of all our old cars we owned over the years, would have long taken the joy of ownership, and my back and knees, if I would have had to crawl the concrete floor all this time. Looking back the investment was futile and since we recently fixed my son's Ape 50 on it he now alsof sees the benefits. My father (85) has a service pit and finds it harder to climb in and out with the years.
Hobby Land Rover's parking and maintanance of all our old cars we owned over the years, would have long taken the joy of ownership, and my back and knees, if I would have had to crawl the concrete floor all this time. Looking back the investment was futile and since we recently fixed my son's Ape 50 on it he now alsof sees the benefits. My father (85) has a service pit and finds it harder to climb in and out with the years.
Barking Mat
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I'm just fed up of being on my knees fixing vehicles and watching trolley jacks on planks sink into the earth here.
Be nice to properly inspect under vehicles too.
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Any vehicle ramp, of whatever type is a huge advantage over crawling round on your hands and knees, and laying on your back.
Traveling across Poland 30 years ago I saw ramps by the side of the road so people could use them for free to repair and maintain their Skoda's and Trabants.
They were just solid steel beams without any moving parts but I always was a bit jealous we didn't have that here.
A friend of mine had a garage on a slope in his backgarden it was two levels with a hole in the deck and you could enter in the lower level to work on the underside of the car in the top level, this was already a big step up from a pit.
They were just solid steel beams without any moving parts but I always was a bit jealous we didn't have that here.
A friend of mine had a garage on a slope in his backgarden it was two levels with a hole in the deck and you could enter in the lower level to work on the underside of the car in the top level, this was already a big step up from a pit.
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There was one like that using a slope & 2 steel beams for years in a local garage. It worked very well, the only thing was someone tried to put a Reliant 3 wheeler on it, that ended in disaster
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In Sardinia I noticed open air four posters. Similar sort of arrangement and it seemed you could hire them by the hour.
you would never get away with that here, I doubt
Barking Mat
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There's one like that up the road, at an unused garage. Nice simple idea.
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Just as a note, a friend of mine bought a four post ramp for not a lot, they servicede and did the ropes just in the name of safety, he said it wasn’t too expensive to do either. Maybe worth looking at. Especially seeing as they’re normally fairly hidden.
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I have an Omer 25 Lift, the same as this, in my workshop/garage,
A hydraulic 2.5 ton scissor lift, 240volt 3 phase, run on a single phase 240volt supply with a capacitor,
You would drive on from the far end, the engine (heavy end) needs to be this end,
The ramps this end, unhook and remove once in the air.
Looking like this (a slightly different Omer floor level ramp)
A hydraulic 2.5 ton scissor lift, 240volt 3 phase, run on a single phase 240volt supply with a capacitor,
You would drive on from the far end, the engine (heavy end) needs to be this end,
The ramps this end, unhook and remove once in the air.
Looking like this (a slightly different Omer floor level ramp)
James1979
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The service is a really good thing to do.
The half nuts are the usual point of wear / failure. They get bodged a lot.
Take photos of the wire rope position's before you dismantle. And mark all the ropes. I didn't when I bought my Bradbury, it was a puzzle for quite a while.
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When I was an apprentice we built one for everyone to use made from hardwood sleepers. You drove the car up onto it and it got well used.
I agree. I paid £300 for my ramp and close to £750 for fitting, inspection a couple of pulley pins and ram seal. For £1000 it was still a bargain and earnt that back within a month or two of fitting with what it saved on gearbox changes. I got it fitted as i didnt want 3 ton od land rover crashing down on my head because I put something in the wrong place - plus i never would have spotted the worn pins and a couple of small but important missing parts!.
Barking Mat
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Where do you find a specialist to inspect it?
Barking Mat
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No half nuts, one hydraulic cylinder and wire ropes.
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slim_boy_fat
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But in France, who knows.....
