Wheel ramps - are they useful for a Westfield?

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

2 minutes ago, Mole said:

I put an end stop on one end of the 4*2 and two stops on the rear face and a magnet either end sunk in the top face which allows me to slide the wood under and click it in place which makes it much easy we and less times up and down on and off my knees!

Ditto-

 

 

 

I'd be happier if the sleepers were a tad wider 🤦‍♂️

[eggontoast]

5 minutes ago, Mole said:

I put an end stop on one end of the 4*2 and two stops on the rear face and a magnet either end sunk in the top face which allows me to slide the wood under and click it in place which makes it much easy we and less times up and down on and off my knees!

 

Fancy! 

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

46 minutes ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

 

 

 

I'd be happier if the sleepers were a tad wider 🤦‍♂️

Could you cut the sleepers in half and turn them round?

[dvd8n]

I've honestly never had a problem just driving up onto my ramps and getting on with stuff. 

 

 

 

[Kenner]

if find those ramps tricky or don’t like them. 
 

I pull my car onto these low profile ramps so front car is higher. so i can then Jack it up as front of my car is too low for the low profile Jack to go under without hitting nose cone or side of the car. Then I use axle stands for it. But I still get decent high to change oil or mess around cleaning. But if want more hight/room those ramps or axle stand will be best. 

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

24 minutes ago, Kenner said:

if find those ramps tricky or don’t like them. 
 

I pull my car onto these low profile ramps so front car is higher. so i can then Jack it up as front of my car is too low for the low profile Jack to go under without hitting nose cone or side of the car. Then I use axle stands for it. But I still get decent high to change oil or mess around cleaning. But if want more hight/room those ramps or axle stand will be best. 

I've thought about something like this as I've got a converluted system of home made ramps and blocks to get the car high enough to get the ramps under. 

It wouldn't pass any health and safety tests. 

[evosteve]

27 minutes ago, Kenner said:

if find those ramps tricky or don’t like them. 
 

I pull my car onto these low profile ramps so front car is higher. so i can then Jack it up as front of my car is too low for the low profile Jack to go under without hitting nose cone or side of the car. Then I use axle stands for it. But I still get decent high to change oil or mess around cleaning. But if want more hight/room those ramps or axle stand will be best. 

Have a pair of these and find they give you the hight to get a trolly jack underneath and then use axle stands.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

Yep use them all the time; but also found them nearly impossible to drive onto without at least pushing them out of place, and sometimes one would slide further than the other! So I've long since given up driving on and now just lift the car on to them with a trolley jack.

 

As for safety, I've seen axle stands start to topple too, if too much lifting (bad) or sideways forces are applied to the car. (Though I'll always try and make sure high torque items where possible are at least cracked loose while the cars tyres are on the ground, even if some load is being taken on a jack.

 

If I've got both ends of the car raised and one or More wheels off, I'll also put the removed wheel(s) under, or part under the car near where I'm working as a backup; in the insanely unlikely event of it falling off the stands, even if I'm pinned, it will be the wheels taking the bulk of the cars weight, not me!

[Flying Carrot Steve]

3 hours ago, Kenner said:

if find those ramps tricky or don’t like them. 
 

I pull my car onto these low profile ramps so front car is higher. so i can then Jack it up as front of my car is too low for the low profile Jack to go under without hitting nose cone or side of the car. Then I use axle stands for it. But I still get decent high to change oil or mess around cleaning. But if want more hight/room those ramps or axle stand will be best. 

 

I am pretty sure I've seen these that hook over or clip on to the front of the usual metal ramps,  in effect giving a much lower and gentler slope onto the ramp. This means once the car's front tyres are on them the metal ramps shouldn't get pushed away as you try and drive onto them.

[dvd8n]

2 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) said:

nearly impossible to drive onto without at least pushing them out of place

 

I've never had that happen, but that's probably down to luck with surfaces rather than any skill on my part. 

 

13 minutes ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

hook over or clip on to the front of the usual metal ramps

 

I've heard of people using a piece of rope or carpet looped round the bottom rung and driving onto that first to stop it sliding.  Never had to do it myself though.