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Advice please on choosing trolley for moving a car engine
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Re: Advice please on choosing trolley for moving a car engine -
11-05-2006
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Can you help advise me. Is this trolley http://tinyurl.com/ylvtjb suitable for moving a VW Golf engine? The car is parked on land across the road from our house and this trolley is to help him move the engine across the road (which is often quite busy). Is the trolley strong enough? Are there other important features it needs to have? |
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/old-skateboard...mZ270049791520
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"Lucy" <no (AT) no-email (DOT) com> wrote in message news:Xns987215D2BBBC071F3M4 (AT) 127 (DOT) 0.0.1 Can you help advise me. Is this trolley http://tinyurl.com/ylvtjb suitable for moving a VW Golf engine? The car is parked on land across the road from our house and this trolley is to help him move the engine across the road (which is often quite busy). Is the trolley strong enough? Are there other important features it needs to have? I used an old plastic skateboard to move a rover V8 but YMMV http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/old-skateboard...mZ270049791520 -- ThePunisher |
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"Lucy" <no (AT) no-email (DOT) com> wrote in message news:Xns98721C46AC8C471F3M4 (AT) 127 (DOT) 0.0.1... "Lucy" <no (AT) no-email (DOT) com> wrote Can you help advise me. Is this trolley http://tinyurl.com/ylvtjb suitable for moving a VW Golf engine? Not convinced by those funny wheels. I'd probably use something like this http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=050710040 in lying down mode, and not worry too hard about the fact it may be slightly overladen (in fact it may not be). Or I'd get a scaffolding pole, hang the engine from it, and get a couple of mates to help carry it. cheers, clive |
Very approximately, what is the weight of a VW Golf engine?
Would my trolley with its 330lb load capacity be strong enough?
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| Very approximately, what is the weight of a VW Golf engine? Would my trolley with its 330lb load capacity be strong enough? |
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The car is parked on land across the road from our house and this trolley is to help him move the engine across the road (which is often quite busy). Is the trolley strong enough? Are there other important features it needs to have? |
that trolley would do it easily.
I'd cut a piece of wood board the size of the bottom of the trolley, place
engine on it and strap in place with a ratchet strap.
Use it in "barrow" mode. Even the cheaper one linked by Clive would be OK:
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=050710040
They're not *that* heavy - I lifted it into the footwell of the (scrap) car
on my own once the box & ancillaries were removed. (Couldn't get the crane
into the gap so easier than moving car (with no wheels!).
Alan.
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"ThePunisher" <thepunisher (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote in message news  wn3h.12778$Ib.3438 (AT) newsfe1-gui (DOT) ntli.net..."Lucy" <no (AT) no-email (DOT) com> wrote in message news:Xns987215D2BBBC071F3M4 (AT) 127 (DOT) 0.0.1 Can you help advise me. Is this trolley http://tinyurl.com/ylvtjb suitable for moving a VW Golf engine? The car is parked on land across the road from our house and this trolley is to help him move the engine across the road (which is often quite busy). Is the trolley strong enough? Are there other important features it needs to have? I used an old plastic skateboard to move a rover V8 but YMMV http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/old-skateboard...mZ270049791520 -- ThePunisher yea right m8 we are sure you did........ |
Cortina onto the skateboard.
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