When car ramps fail.

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Actually, I don't want to give standard car ramps the chance to fail! You know them oil change ramps you buy at your local automotive supply? Yeah them! Don't try to park your motorhome on those! I don't have pictures of them, but, the steel cheapo's I had began to tweek when I landed a bit too hard on the brakes at the top, so......I made my own...heavy duty is a relative term...but these are HD!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The forklift makes an excellent channel bender!I layed out the legs......tacked them up.Then they got welded.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Next post...City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:OK, can you draw a straight line?Not me, even cheating downhill. No big deal, they are only for traction!Test drive time.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Next post.City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:They actually kicked up in the back a few inches after adding rubber mats to stop them from skidding, kind of spooky!! I need thinner rubber shoes.First check found the fender washers too thick for the screw heads, ok, lose the washers.Painting.We still have our hand built hitch rack, but having a service bed equipped pick up on that was plenty sketchy for me, thanks, no class A motorhomes!!City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:OLY Chit! you could drive a dump truck on those.DavidReal world weldin.  When I grow up I want to be a tig weldor.
Reply:Why did you bother painting them, were you afraid they would rust through?
Reply:I thought you might have built them for you M1A1 tank ..But my guess is that motor home might weigh more!Washman
Reply:LOLthat´s a great quick (relative) project!Another guy here, did some BIG tacks without Gas coverage...it seems that they provided some nice traction Even thou they look like "bird poop"My Babies: HF Drill pressHF Pipe Bender3   4.5" Black and Decker angle grindersLincoln Electric PROMIG 175that´s it!
Reply:I found the gas bottle had run out while doing the scratch pad. Plus it was all way up to max flow, I didn't catch that.edit:- Ben, I painted them so that when our next tank owning customer comes in, they won't think we don't want things clean for their tank as they drive over my bird poop traction beads...Last edited by tanglediver; 08-27-2007 at 07:38 PM.City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:I dunno why I keep visiting the welding boards! You'll keep giving me all these ideas for fun projects!!! And I haven't even finnished building my weld table yet! Ah, you didn't happen to build some chucks to place behind the rear wheels, did ya?Jax
Reply:We have a crate full of disposable wood blocks to choose from for chock duty. Actually, we have a store bought aluminum chock block that is very sweet, professionally cast. Good idea though, I like that!!City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."Job 28:1,2Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV BibleDanny
Reply:That reminds me, DIY channel did a series of shows on an "ulitmate workshop". In the automotive version of the shop they had an electric lift. I researched that company, they no longer make that lift, wonder how hard it would be to make one, or a pneumatic one that I can crank up using my compressor?Jax
Reply:And here I was thinking "that must be a reallllly big car....  LOLFire!, Fire! Oh wait, that's my torch...Lincoln PT-225 TIGLincoln 175 MIG