How much weight could a milk crate support??

[MM77]

Let me just look after the Scooby for you for 3 years I will make sure it is run every now and then and I do miss my Scooby so it will keep us both happy

Oh yeah sure thing.

I'll drop it off tonight

 

I had my WRX for 8 years and only sold it cos expensive things started going wrong so it will be perfectly safe with me Is it classic shape or bug eye?

Classic

[Mk2Jo]

The best shape mate

[MM77]

The best shape mate

[Trevmk3]

make some custom jack stands for it to your own height, make sure they are strong and well welded though as if not they would be as good as milk crates

[jimbo]

........and bombing a unigate float

 

The Unigate Bomber....I've heard of you

[Fishtailparka]

I can promise you that milk crates will definitely not hold it.

[X-pack-Glyn]

Could you just not use velcro on the roof? surely better than milt crates.

[Trevmk3]

Could you just not use velcro on the roof? surely better than milt crates.

 

nah gaffer tape

[lotusless]

ive got an easier plan open the garage door + drive the scooby

flat out into it squashing the other car into the back wall!!

then come back in three years + repair them

 

 

 

oh bortaf your new name is ernie

[accord83]

Got a salvage yard near? We used cut up railway sleepers, cut into handleable size blocks then stacked, ( you could always drill them and bang a bit of 1/2 bar through to keep them together). They stand the weight of a train and and sharp bits of car bite in for a grip. Your problem as I see it is you are making a triangle and the higher you go the more the chance of whatever stacking system you use 'kicking' out and the lot collapsing.

[V8ian]

Milk crates, probably find they are perfectly allright, afterall, if you are careful you can stand a car on 4 polystryene cups!!!,

Park the escort in nose first on ramps, using 2 extra height or lorry axle stands jack the car up as high as you need, or do you have a mate who is a scaffolder, he could knockup a frame that easily hold the weight of a car.

I have often supported my car on pyramids of 4x2s just nailed together

[bigglesmk2]

What about them scaffold support bars you use when knocking a wall out and prevent upstairs becomming downstairs

 

Thing is,whats holding the rachet straps up?, if its the roof of your garage then what about when it starts to sag under the weight,3 years un-mantained and un-checked

What about when the wheels of the cars go flat,coz they will.

 

The car that has it arse on the deck is then gonna be in a dfferent postion when its tyres go flat, thus moving the nose and whatever method used to hold it up in the air,your system collapses causing damage.Both cars then they spend the next 2'n'half years forcing their way out of the garage door and back wall,making the garage structure unsafe and may collapse onto both cars hence loosing both cars because there fooked and not knowing about it for 3 years.

 

This is not gonna end well

 

Get some bricks and build an extra couple of foot on the front or back of the garage.

[bortaf]

........and bombing a unigate float

 

The Unigate Bomber....I've heard of you

 

Oh it was a propper job not a shoe and some matches

20 bangers taped together and lobbed in the back of the float as i went past in me lorry, did i mention after blowing up one float doing burnouts they gave me a 7.5T lorry to do the skool runs in that's how the 18th hole of whitewebbs golf couse got wiped out (in my defence i was 18 and had only been driving 2 weeks) and the 2nd float ( i pushed it with the lorry at 50MPH down whetstone high road and it over loaded the batterys and they melted)

 

Ratchet straps are easy, just go buy some sky hooks, Q&B do em next to the tarten paint opposite the skirting ladders

[over_head_cam]

Turn the cars on their sides. Job done

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[D-FENS]

cant you ratchet strap it up ?

Theoretically yes.

 

But the cars will be in storage for 3+ years while i'm overseas, and there's no way i'd sleep for any of those 1000+ nights knowing my car is only supported by straps

Mind if i ask what your goin abroad for ,is it work ? .

[evil knievel]

Turn the cars on their sides. Job done

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why would you do that?

 

 

 

Why would you do that when you could park 'em on their noses and get four in

[MM77]

Could you just not use velcro on the roof? surely better than milt crates.

[MM77]

Got a salvage yard near? We used cut up railway sleepers, cut into handleable size blocks then stacked, ( you could always drill them and bang a bit of 1/2 bar through to keep them together). They stand the weight of a train and and sharp bits of car bite in for a grip. Your problem as I see it is you are making a triangle and the higher you go the more the chance of whatever stacking system you use 'kicking' out and the lot collapsing.

Great idea, but no salvage yard nearby unfortunately.

[over_head_cam]

I've got a couple of boxes full of old birds you can have

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

milf crates

[MM77]

milf crates

[livewire7116]

a set of 4 axle stands are less than £20 and designed to do the job you are talking about

[Andrade]

4 page thread talking about how milk crates hold vehicles?

[Trevmk3]

4 page thread talking about how milk crates hold vehicles?

 

or how they dont, you cant forget that bit

[lotusless]

i cant believe this is 4 pages either

[MM77]

a set of 4 axle stands are less than £20 and designed to do the job you are talking about

Kind of.

I'm yet to find a set that raises a car >1mtr though