What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[Dirtman]

Hauled a rolling Horrible Freight toolbox home.... they conveniently loaded it with a forklift, uh.... now what? Should have checked the weight! Think I can get it out with ramps..... looks like about 350 pounds or so....

Take the strap off and put the tailgate down then drive in reverse at about 45mph and slam on the brakes. It'll unload itself.

 

[MikeG]

Yeah but getting it into the living room, wrapped, with a bow on it makes things a tad more complicated.....

 

[Roert42]

Hauled a rolling Horrible Freight toolbox home.... they conveniently loaded it with a forklift, uh.... now what? Should have checked the weight! Think I can get it out with ramps..... looks like about 350 pounds or so....

I carried a gun safe that weighed about the same into my house. You just need one really good friend.

 

[racsan]

Yeah but getting it into the living room, wrapped, with a bow on it makes things a tad more complicated.....

cut a sheet of 3/4 plywood to fit your doorway, take off tailgate & put plywood between doorway & on rear bumper. Then slide it on in.
This is a situation where I’d take a picture & wrap a small box with the picture in it, leave the box in truck wrapped with a tarp.

 

[MikeG]

Got it out with some homemade ramps that I built years ago to load a generator. Glad my son was there to help me, once it started down the ramps it wanted to pick up speed!

Put a bow on top. Think it's gonna stay in the garage for now. Guessing if the drawers were out it might be a lot lighter.

 

[Curious Hound]

Got it out with some homemade ramps that I built years ago to load a generator. Glad my son was there to help me, once it started down the ramps it wanted to pick up speed!

Put a bow on top. Think it's gonna stay in the garage for now. Guessing if the drawers were out it might be a lot lighter.

Yes. Moved mine into the house by myself with the drawers removed.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I don't remember how I got mine out of whatever I drug it home in that size... the new bigger one I drug home on a trailer that's shin high on the deck, lifted one end with the engine hoist and slid it off the trailer then lifted the other end and set it down, then lifted the top box off with the engine hoist and set it on top... was interesting to say the least! Those are nice boxes, I've liked my 46" box for the last several years, enough to buy the 56" and top box for myself and a couple weeks ago bought a side box for it...

 

[Dirtman]

I have a Bridgeport milling machine in my basement and I don't have bilco doors...

Took a full 3 days to get it in. Had to dismantle it down to the base (which still weighs roughly 2,000 pounds). Removed the stairs and doors, rigged a chain hoist from my attic over the stairwell, put a wood track down with rollers from the back door to the basement door, and lifted it off the trailer and onto the porch with a skid steer. Then took 4 of us to carefully nudge it inch by inch along the track to the hoist. Once we dropped it 8 feet down into the basement we had to roll it into position and then rebuild the stairs and put the doors back on the house. Then re-assemble the bridgeport itself.

It's simply part of the house now and is down there until I die...

I wanted to move my south bend lathe to the basement next but for some reason none of my friends would show up to help after the bridgeport incident.

 

[Rick W]

Before:

$200 later, 16 mounted and balanced:

And, as all know, a car runs better when it’s washed, the 87 4WD Rick-storation is looking great, huh?

 

[Curious Hound]

And, as all know, a car runs better when it’s washed, the 87 4WD Rick-storation is looking great, huh?

Looks good enough for me.

 

[Rick W]

I have a Bridgeport milling machine in my basement

Wow, I’d like to see a picture of that!!

Looks good enough for me.

Yeah, all under-the-hood love so far. Engine by my shade tree, and then I spent hours straightening out the battery cables (I like my fireworks on the 4th of July), and some other clean up. I have to pull rear brake drums & look/replace before I put revised wheel setup on, front brakes are ok. That leaves the brake line tubing and radiator to get it on the road.

58 sunny degrees today, but rain and ice next two days & with no spot in the garage, I won’t make it on the road before Santa comes. Targeting Baby New Year now...

 

[racsan]

Before:

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$200 later, 16 mounted and balanced:

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Wow! , you actually have more tires/wheels than I do, thanks! Now I can tell Bren that Im not the only one with so many tires. But I probably am the only one that keeps them upstairs in the house in a extra room.

there’s another set of 14’s in that room thats not in the picture.

 

[Curious Hound]

"Wow! , you actually have more tires/wheels than I do, thanks! Now I can tell Bren that Im not the only one with so many tires. But I probably am the only one that keeps them upstairs in the house in a extra room."

You might want to install some 3/4" plywood on the wall opposite the base of the stairway, just in case one gets away while you're bringing it down the steps. Don't hang anything valuable on that wall, either.

 

[racsan]

it would be easier to just toss them out a window.

 

[Rick W]

there’s another set of 14’s in that room thats not in the picture.

I can’t tell in the picture if those are kings or queens...