Getting it Up!

[Rubce]

Tiger Moths in your day Gord?

Nah, more likely to be a hot air balloon

B

[Pirate]

Have a look at your diary for weekends between now and Christmas and perhaps we can arrange a group meet?

Hi Bruce,

I don't know about you but I'm finding the weekends are disappearing rapidly for the remainder of the year!

It's looking like we will have to wait for Spring!

Jeremy

[stag8manod]

Hi Jeremy, A suggestion to make them easier to move. Weld a piece of 25/32mm pipe across the pivot point. Make up a stub axle with a solid rubber wheel so that it will slip into the pipe and secure with a drop in pin. but that is only one of the possibilities.
Cheers Ian A

[Pirate]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the suggestion, it's a better idea than the ones I came up with and would have saved me a lot of time!

1. I drilled holes either side at the end of the ramps to bolt a wheelbarrow wheel either side. This posed several problems, firstly the ramp needed lifting to fit them, secondly several washers were needed to stop them fouling the steel & the more washers the more the wheels splayed inwards, thirdly I still had the full weight of the ramps to drag around!

So, a bit more common sense was applied with idea 2:-

2. Fit them at the pivot point (as you suggested). Another couple of hours spent fabricating brackets for the wheels & drilling holes, it made it much easier to move the ramps but was a lot of hassle bolting & unbolting the brackets.

Final solution that I have now adopted:-

3. Accept that I wasted most of a Saturday, ditch the wheels & brackets and just lift the middle enough to slip under a small low omnidirectional trolley! Quick, easy & moves in any direction.

I suppose if nothing else, all those extra holes drilled has made them a bit lighter

Cheers,
Jeremy