Moving a car without wheels

[orangewheeledwonder]

Hi everyone

As a hobby i like breaking cars, in my driveway, for bits, I only break small cars like cinqs and seis..

(Please do not turn this in to a sales thread and ask for parts, there is a classifieds section for that)

Now i havent been touching the rear end and leave the front hub etc so i can move it out of my drive when im done and on to a truck.

Is there anyway, if i had a totally stripped car,with no wheels, on bricks, that i can move it out of the drive and on to a truck.

I like the idea of a angle grinder and chop it to bits :devil:

Cheers
Mayat

 

[Focus Owner]

4 big blokes
or a pallet truck but i wouldnt be smooth
or weld stilts to bottom with wheels on the ends would be funny

 

[richie.guy]

Good trolley jacks will do the job with a couple of mates pushing/stabilising.

If it's a bare shell and you're not bothered about the drive just drag it.

 

[Focus Owner]

slam some wheels on it

 

[dave]

hasnt the truck got a hyab? guy who comes an gets mine just drags them out with the hyab

 

[The Sultan]

weld casters to the sills

 

[Focus Owner]

thats half of my idea just without the stilts

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

I sort of have a similar problem with the donor 750L.

Its currently sitting on bricks as there is no hub or wheel on front pass side, and it's sitting behind a wall. I was either going to get half the neighbours to help move it for a few bevies, or see if the company taking it have one of them lifty upie thingy mejigies

 

[orangewheeledwonder]

I think trolley jacks it will have to be...
Iv already damaged drive with the cinq.
My friend who has a recovery truck cant get it down my drive, and is worried about damaging the truck by scraping it on to it...

 

[jug]

grind off all markings so it can not be identifed, then roll it into the road and set fire to it, then call the police. it'll be gone within 24hours at no cost to yourself.

 

[orangewheeledwonder]

grind off all markings so it can not be identifed, then roll it into the road and set fire to it, then call the police. it'll be gone within 24hours at no cost to yourself.

Roll being the KEY word No tyres to roll ..

Plus i get money to weigh it in!

 

[Focus Owner]

roll ie riot roll

 

[orangewheeledwonder]

roll ie riot roll

HMMMMM!:devil:

 

[jenks69]

you can get small trollies for the job:

http://www.tptools.com/eccStoreImages/product_images/Images/tp-5005-car-dollies_R.jpg

they are best used when the wheels are still on the car - but with blocks of wood you can sit a chasis / shell on it no problems then wheel it about like a shopping trolley!

 

[Eklipze3k]

you can get small trollies for the job:

http://www.tptools.com/eccStoreImages/product_images/Images/tp-5005-car-dollies_R.jpg

they are best used when the wheels are still on the car - but with blocks of wood you can sit a chasis / shell on it no problems then wheel it about like a shopping trolley!

I'd do that anyway, in the old Tesco car park, that would be great fun!! :devil:

 

[Jai]

how to move your vehicle without wheels:

 

[sludgeguts]

I had this problem once & solved by leaving a couple of scaffold poles under the car, propped up on bricks at the front. When the time came for the shell to leave, all we had to do was lift the poles onto the back of the flatbed, attach the winch & drag the shell up the poles. It's kinda like loading a wheelbarrow with bricks - impossible to shift without the long handles & pivot.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

grind off all markings so it can not be identifed, then roll it into the road and set fire to it, then call the police. it'll be gone within 24hours at no cost to yourself.

I'm tempted with our donor car, but thought it would be easier just to push it over the clif into the sea, within hours of being in contact with salt water it would have dicintergrated into nothingness, after all, it is a Fiat