Harbor Freight Ramps

[rbsWELDER]

I posed this question before and just got silly answers, so let me try again.

I bought a set of steel ramps from Harbor Freight to use for oil changes and such. Unfortunately, when I try to pull the bucket up on them, the just skate forward.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone come up with a solution?

Thanks,

[Indycars]

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Put a couple of Drop In Anchors in the concrete and temporarily bolt them down when in
use. Or bolt and 2x4 block of wood for the ramp to butt up against.

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Fa ... ,3908,3907

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mcwX70dxGw
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[GTS225]

Yes. I have a pair that does the same thing, with even heavier cars. I have adopted a pair of 2x4's of an appropriate length that brace things away from the back wall of the garage. I've also adopted a 4x4 that I'll lay down across the garage door framing, then brace with the 2x4's, when doing oil changes outside the garage.
Now, as a side note, I've started hearing bad things about those steel drive-ons folding up unexpectedly. I have personal reservations concerning plastic drive-ons, so have been contemplating building my own out of vertically oriented plywood glued and bolted together. I'm sure they would be quite heavy, being made of (essentially) solid 3/4" ply, but I'd just as soon not get squashed.

Roger

[winfield scott]

I posed this question before and just got silly answers, so let me try again.

I bought a set of steel ramps from Harbor Freight to use for oil changes and such. Unfortunately, when I try to pull the bucket up on them, the just skate forward.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone come up with a solution?

Thanks,

The ramps I had years ago had rubber pads on the feet.

[Lugnut]

I posed this question before and just got silly answers, so let me try again.

I bought a set of steel ramps from Harbor Freight to use for oil changes and such. Unfortunately, when I try to pull the bucket up on them, the just skate forward.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone come up with a solution?

Thanks,

The ramps I had years ago had rubber pads on the feet.

Mine as well Windy. Those suckers didn't move an inch even when I drove the truck up on them.

[rbsWELDER]

Windy/Luggy,

How long were those pads?

[winfield scott]

Mine were like these, they had 4 rubber pads, one on each corner of the main platform. I think they were each about 1.5" long.

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[Lugnut]

Mine were like these, they had 4 rubber pads, one on each corner of the main platform. I think they were each about 1.5" long.
ramps.jpg

Similar to mine except the color. Like Windy stated, about 1.5" long.

Luigi

[nitro_rat]

I either use them in the yard (they sink enough in the dirt to not skate away) or block them. You can use long 2x4's from the base of your garage wall to keep them from moving. Front wheel drive cars will usually pull up on them unassisted on bare concrete though...

[Bruce Pickett]

I either use them in the yard (they sink enough in the dirt to not skate away) or block them. You can use long 2x4's from the base of your garage wall to keep them from moving. Front wheel drive cars will usually pull up on them unassisted on bare concrete though...

Ground not good. cut a piece of plywood with cut nails at front to stop sliding so one day the car want roll to one side if the dirt gives way