full length car ramps

[crabby]

hey all

just wondering if anyone has built there own car ramps like the full length ones you see at some car yards for there displays.would make life a bit easyer on some jobs ive got coming up

crabby

[Luke V8]

No . If you do, get an engineers cert and have them load rated.

[azazeldeath]

I can see it being pretty hard. The welds need to be done almost perfectly.

[ozdash]

Wouldn't be hard to make matey as long as you can lay a good bead of weld
but the problem you might have is getting it high enough to get under the car without bottoming the car out getting it up on the ramps ,
you would be better building a long set of ramps that don't flatten off at the top.
Make them 1 & 1/2 times long as the cars wheel base so when the cars on them you have enough room to put a drop in wedge in to chock the car from moving,
With it being as long 1 & 1/2 times the wheel base that will allow you to get the nose up in the air and you can reverse up it if need too .
Personaly i would be using 75 x 50 x 3 mm box for the job with some alloy checker plate tech screwed to the top and just for good measure make 2 drop in bars (so they can be removed )that run between the ramps for loading and unloading ,just take your time measuring and think about where you put the legs good and job done .

if ya get in to trouble pm me and i'll draw something up if you need it ......Dash

[DLFHUB666]

I made a set, when i was working at tonkin steel in townsville just copied a set they had lying around.

[crabby]

they do look easy enough to make and i weld chassis for pre-fab houses as a job and we just happen to use 75 x 50 x 3mm for the skids for them

hey dash , the long ramps are a great idea , might be the way to go....
just thought before i went ahead id see what others had done and what worked and didnt work...cant be any worse than the chinese stuff from super cheap thats for sure lol

crabby

[azkwazere]

Agreed, its only got to support like 1500kg a ramp anyway which is easy enough to fabricate a decent support to accomplish that..

Love how everyone freaks out... omg! he's trying something newwwww

aZk.

[Drawnnite]

i weld chassis for pre-fab houses as a job

so you weld up chassis for houses but do not want to weld basic supports.
Please dont weld up my future house =P

na but seriously. let us know how they go (pics aswell). would be great to see what they look like and how well they work
you could have a few of us wanting to buy a set off you.

[azazeldeath]

Agreed, its only got to support like 1500kg a ramp anyway which is easy enough to fabricate a decent support to accomplish that..

Love how everyone freaks out... omg! he's trying something newwwww

aZk.

I dont think anyone freaked out. Just the welds need to be done very well. Last thing you want is a car to fall onto you.

But he later said he has experience welding so he should be fine.

[Dr HaxZaw]

an inch of weld for one tonne... what one boilermaker told me lol bit of a joke but still it doesnt take a whole lot of weld to hold a decent amount of weight

[pjdm1980]

Be a bit of a pain to store them?

[crabby]

[QUOTE=Drawnnite;2042381]so you weld up chassis for houses but do not want to weld basic supports.QUOTE]

i must of missed something there? as i didnt say that at all

got some time off over chrissy so ill get organised and build one with pics as i go =P

[crabby]

who needs to weld anyway , could go one like this .......Products,Specs & Prices - Levo-Artis, car ramps, car lifts

[Drawnnite]

i must of missed something there? as i didnt say that at all

got some time off over chrissy so ill get organised and build one with pics as i go =P

i was only having a bit of fun. (thats why the "but seriously" part comes in)
like saying an electrician who doesnt have enough powerpoints in their house =P

make sure you do show us. though.
and im sure you can make the ramps for less then they are selling them for.
and they will look 10 times better aswell.

[crabby]

lol..all good ...im just a bit slow
been thinkin a bit about it over the last couple of days and lookin forward to getting stuck into it

[crabby]

Wouldn't be hard to make matey as long as you can lay a good bead of weld
but the problem you might have is getting it high enough to get under the car without bottoming the car out getting it up on the ramps ,
you would be better building a long set of ramps that don't flatten off at the top.
Make them 1 & 1/2 times long as the cars wheel base so when the cars on them you have enough room to put a drop in wedge in to chock the car from moving,
With it being as long 1 & 1/2 times the wheel base that will allow you to get the nose up in the air and you can reverse up it if need too .
Personaly i would be using 75 x 50 x 3 mm box for the job with some alloy checker plate tech screwed to the top and just for good measure make 2 drop in bars (so they can be removed )that run between the ramps for loading and unloading ,just take your time measuring and think about where you put the legs good and job done .

if ya get in to trouble pm me and i'll draw something up if you need it ......Dash

like this one

[edals]

You need to make ones that can fall flat. so then you have lots of space under neath and its not all on a angle .