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Ideas on how to lift store Slingshots?

Discussion in 'General' started by motion, Feb 8, 2025.

  1. Dave Wolfe

    Dave Wolfe EV Hater

    Have robby bobby rent them in the winter time
     
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  2. brex

    brex Well-Known Member

    Hard to tell from your pic, what is the measurement from floor to ceiling?
    Quick googling says those things are 52 inches tall.
    Do you have 9+ feet of space?
    If so, you could do as ChemGuy said, but even at 4.5', just to keep it tight.
     
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  3. wsmc42

    wsmc42 Well-Known Member

    That garage pic looks like the definition of 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag.
     
  4. Venom51

    Venom51 John Deere Equipment Expert - Not really

    Can't live with a 45 degree jog in a stove pipe but can let his garage look like that. Weird. Yes...I am judging you. :D
     
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  5. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    That's the garage in winter storage mode. Actually its quite a bit worse than that pic. Slingshots, motorcycles & e-bikes crammed everywhere.

    One of these days I'm gonna get rid of all this crap and just have my 2 red cars and maybe 5 bikes in there, along with my motorsports art and collectibles, tools, etc. Someday :)
     
  6. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    He's end up creating a dirt track series with them. No thanks.
     
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  7. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    Its gonna be tight stacking them. I can unbolt the rollbars if I have to. That gets me another 8" or so to play with on each Slingshot. Chemguy's idea involves building too much shit and I have no place to store all that stuff when its not being used. I need some kind of affordable portable solution that can be moved onto a side wall when not being used.
     
  8. Evad101

    Evad101 Well-Known Member

    rent shipping container for the winter months. Should be able to park 3 in a 40 footer.
     
  9. YoshiHNS

    YoshiHNS Mr. Slowly

    Flip them on their side and put them on a glorified taco rack or one of those sheet carts at home depot. Drain the gas first, and probably the oil too. Then you have to do spring maintenance.
     
  10. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    hahahaha still rocking the inflatable hot tub. Love that thang!

    BBBB.jpg
     
  11. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    Nope
     
  12. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    Seems almost feasible to raise the ass end of each up 6' or so from the roll bars, and park another under the butt. I could maybe put 6 in the garage that way, but I don't want that much weight hanging from the rafters all winter.
     
  13. brex

    brex Well-Known Member

    What about putting them on wheel dollies, then pushing them sideways, end to end, overlapping the rear wheels?
    Again hard to say, but looking at that first pic, seems you could fit a couple more in that way.
     
  14. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    You do know a guy in the biz, though. Maybe @Boman Forklift would trade you one for a Miata?
     
  15. cm1744

    cm1744 Well-Known Member

    Build a gantry anchored to the slab with some winches to hoist up the ass-end and then engage a solid lock platform to hold the rear wheel the park one flat below it.
     
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  16. ToofPic

    ToofPic Well-Known Member

    Buy the tractor, as mentioned earlier,attatchment,racking.Its a tax write off for the business,Duh!!
    Then in the working season, rent the forklift out to uppity rich Yankees. Sell it as "The warehouse experience" They can drive it around town all willy nilly on a full batree,or one tank.
    Of course, you will swat down ,yet another Genius idea.. Do you even wanna store those things?
    :Poke:Yanking our pud?
     
  17. Martin Lewis

    Martin Lewis Can we go back to the track already?

    Come to beautiful, Red Lodge Montana and drive a forklift through the picturesque mountains of crap in my storage shed- @motion probably
     
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  18. TLR67

    TLR67 Well-Known Member

  19. dave3593

    dave3593 What I know about opera I learned from Bugs Bunny

    I was thinking raising just the rear only also.

    Use a mechanical high lift (off road) jack to raise the one wheel. Then stick under the wheel a small fabricated "stick" that is just one leg (directly under wheel) or two legs (for step over) that holds it up when you take the jack out.

    At the bottom of the stick like thing is a thin 2' x 2' plate that keeps it from falling over. You can still drive the next thing over the thin plate.
     
    Last edited: Feb 9, 2025
  20. Smilodon

    Smilodon Wannabe

    Tie them to drones and set them to hover.
     
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