How do broken down cars get out from multistory car parks?

londonTiger

are these skates purely for moving wheels around at a garage without destroying your backs? can't imagine supporting the weight of a car on these.

DigForVictory

It had never occured to me, many thanks to all the posters with the informative images.
Now when no#1 son conks out, I shall try to borrow some of these devices for suitable photos.
We were lent a jackable oversized skateboard to shift The Groom's Car at a wedding, but it was all on the flat. (Things you'd never do sober - shift a car in a lameee (the site doesn't like foreign accents) evening strap & heels. Fun though.)

AdrianC

londonTiger wrote: »

are these skates purely for moving wheels around at a garage without destroying your backs?

And in directions they might not easily otherwise go.

can't imagine supporting the weight of a car on these.

Why on earth not?

http://www.zendextool.com/gojak/
The SWL (safe working load) is rated from ~500kg to ~750kg per wheel, so up to 3t for an entire vehicle.

Just to put that into perspective, if I look out my kitchen window, I can see a car that's 800kg (Pug 205) and a soddin' gurt big 4x4 (LWB Shogun) that's 2.2t.

TrickyWicky

londonTiger wrote: »

are these skates purely for moving wheels around at a garage without destroying your backs? can't imagine supporting the weight of a car on these.

They're basically for manouvering cars around in tight spaces - eg car show rooms where the space is limited and you don't want the engine running inside.

They can also be used to move cars around car parks (eg if some muppet parks in a suspended bay that you need to repaint etc).

You can move a car sideways using skates hence they're not suitable for towing as it could move around in any direction without guidance. If you get blocked in when parked on street, some councils have been known to use gojaks to slide your vehicle out of the parking space for you (this is very rare now).

As for the weight, they can safely handle even some big drag racers:



The beauty of Gojaks is that you don't need to jack the vehicle up by the chassis. If you're a car park operator thats a huge advantage because you don't risk damaging the vehicle chassis and having a legal claim against you. Lifing a car by the tyres is no different to the road surface holding the cars weight.

skivenov

vikingaero wrote: »

I broke down in an underground car park in Central London. There was no way anyone could push the car up the ramps on go-jaks. The AA had a Escort van and I had to wait 4 hours for it to turn up which was fine as I could eat/shop.

Which, if you're anything like me, would be coupled with telling the parking attendant "Nothing to do with me mate, I was ready to go 4 hours ago - ask these lads"