Transporting lumber...
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Benchwayze
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wallace":1tw59qlj said:
Wallace...
Nothing my Volvo couldn't handle either, if I wanted to weld on a galvo rack like that one!
About 15 years ago, in my old Volvo 244, I trolled from mid-Lincs, back to Brum, with five 13' two-inch ash planks, two 13' oak planks, and two walnut planks about 5' x 3' lashed onto Hopkirk bars I still have. Made good time as well. Those were the days; full of youth and optimism, and my mates were all still alive!
John
Phil Pascoe
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I went from Staffordshire to Cornwall with a cast iron spiral stairs on the roof rack of a 245. You should have heard the noise the tyres made against the wheel arches when it hit about eighty... :shock:
wallace
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John Volvos are pretty much squashed landrovers :lol: built like brick **** houses
Benchwayze
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phil.p":2a3gc036 said:I went from Staffordshire to Cornwall with a cast iron spiral stairs on the roof rack of a 245. You should have heard the noise the tyres made against the wheel arches when it hit about eighty... :shock:
Sorry Phil.
I didn't mean to swing a 'black-cat'! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Benchwayze
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wallace":33771wno said:
True, and mine could do with a clean! :mrgreen:
-Matt-
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Subaru Legacy estate.
Can get anything 1800mm long from bootlid to seatbacks (with rear seats folded) and 2400mm length when put diagonally over the front seat.
Anything over that goes on the roofbars. I have some things designed for carrying ladders (the T shaped things) that work well for timber as you put them either side of the centre bit of the ladder thingy.
Pic showing two large pallets (designed for 2400x1250 sheets of metal)
Can get anything 1800mm long from bootlid to seatbacks (with rear seats folded) and 2400mm length when put diagonally over the front seat.
Anything over that goes on the roofbars. I have some things designed for carrying ladders (the T shaped things) that work well for timber as you put them either side of the centre bit of the ladder thingy.
Pic showing two large pallets (designed for 2400x1250 sheets of metal)
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paultnl
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Some people don't care what the car is, they just want to load it all.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp
Melinda_dd
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marcros":14c386l7 said:
In the other 206 we had at the time
andersonec
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Get it delivered.............
Andy
Andy
Fat ferret
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Have an estate now but got a lot of wood in my 2000 micra, recline passenger seat and you can fit in 2.4 lengths perfectly. Actually much better for transporting stuff than it looks. Small vans look useless for transporting long lengths of stuff.
RogerS
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Yup...the S2000 is a great car but not that practical. Ours is now off the road for winter - 1999 and only 20,000 miles. But I digress....
Discovery 2 and RhinoBars on the roof or inside.
Discovery 2 and RhinoBars on the roof or inside.
heimlaga
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I have an Opel Kadett E hatchback from 1984. 1,2 litre OHV engine. The same model was sold as Vauxhall Astra in Britain back in those days. The back seat can be folded down and the roof rack has never been removed in the last 10 years. I usually transport wood on a trailer. Second or third gear uphill and fouth gear downhill. A very good car within it's limitations. The only car I have ever owned.
For heavier transports I use a Massey-Ferguson 165 from 1971 with a 1970-ies Gisebo log trailer. When the temperature falls below -20 celsius it gets uncomfortably cold to sit in the unheated cab and the range is of cause a bit limited by the low speed but a tractor solves a lot of transport problems at a reasonable cost.
For heavier transports I use a Massey-Ferguson 165 from 1971 with a 1970-ies Gisebo log trailer. When the temperature falls below -20 celsius it gets uncomfortably cold to sit in the unheated cab and the range is of cause a bit limited by the low speed but a tractor solves a lot of transport problems at a reasonable cost.
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wallace
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That beats everyone :lol: I did have a 101 forward control for awhile but at about 9miles/gallon to run it was too costly for an everyday vehicle.
heimlaga
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Wow....that beats me too:lol: ... but the only way of driving one of those without going bankrupt from fuel costs would probably be converting it to run on woodgas..... and county Durham isn't exactly known for it's vast woodlands....... not to my knowledge.......
