All good points. This is why it’s difficult and I took interest.
Single guy, not a car guy but owns multiple cars. Single car garage, so not a lot of space. Moving one car away or to higher ground might be doable, but multiple is impractical.
My guess on max flood height lift requirement was based upon google maps. Far from scientific. Maybe 2’ is fine. The area is not tidal, so perhaps my use of storm surge is incorrect. More like lots of runoff potential, and low lying area That a tributary could get overfilled temporarily.
Car is a Toyota Camry or Ford Mustang. Didn’t give it before because this could change over time.
As I said before, was initially thinking of something like my kwik lift, which is easy enough to drive on, and raises about 20” from the floor to the bottom of the tire. Figure a car is a number of inches higher than that, and we’re looking at two feet at least. But they’re not cheap ($750+ in the secondary market), and they are pretty heavy.
I haven’t seen any metal options that are actually compact for storage and light. Some of the examples above look way bulky, even if they’re lightweight. The red Hamer lift above seems like a practical option, I did see that. It’s very flat, very simple (just uses a hi-lift in each corner), but of course it’s made in the UK and I don’t think it’s available.
I haven’t seen any real objective basis that wood is weaker or more risky. People lift buildings with bottle jacks on wood cribs all the time. Sometimes they put I beams under the building, but the lift is all done on heavy wood. IMO, a 6x6 with some sort of dowel or pin approach would not be weak, and the relatively short cut up 6x6 set could be stacked in any number of ways out of the way. But height is a concern, don’t want it toppling like a Jenga puzzle....
So I don’t think it’s as easy for him to just move multiple cars to higher ground, and he travels a lot for work. I just like the challenge; it’s an interesting challenge that I thought might be of interest to others.
Single guy, not a car guy but owns multiple cars. Single car garage, so not a lot of space. Moving one car away or to higher ground might be doable, but multiple is impractical.
My guess on max flood height lift requirement was based upon google maps. Far from scientific. Maybe 2’ is fine. The area is not tidal, so perhaps my use of storm surge is incorrect. More like lots of runoff potential, and low lying area That a tributary could get overfilled temporarily.
Car is a Toyota Camry or Ford Mustang. Didn’t give it before because this could change over time.
As I said before, was initially thinking of something like my kwik lift, which is easy enough to drive on, and raises about 20” from the floor to the bottom of the tire. Figure a car is a number of inches higher than that, and we’re looking at two feet at least. But they’re not cheap ($750+ in the secondary market), and they are pretty heavy.
I haven’t seen any metal options that are actually compact for storage and light. Some of the examples above look way bulky, even if they’re lightweight. The red Hamer lift above seems like a practical option, I did see that. It’s very flat, very simple (just uses a hi-lift in each corner), but of course it’s made in the UK and I don’t think it’s available.
I haven’t seen any real objective basis that wood is weaker or more risky. People lift buildings with bottle jacks on wood cribs all the time. Sometimes they put I beams under the building, but the lift is all done on heavy wood. IMO, a 6x6 with some sort of dowel or pin approach would not be weak, and the relatively short cut up 6x6 set could be stacked in any number of ways out of the way. But height is a concern, don’t want it toppling like a Jenga puzzle....
So I don’t think it’s as easy for him to just move multiple cars to higher ground, and he travels a lot for work. I just like the challenge; it’s an interesting challenge that I thought might be of interest to others.