DIY park and slide system

[willem]

This is no BS but there's no other place to post this.

I'm renovating my garage, which really has space enough to fit three cars side by side but only has a 1 car size opening. There is no room to manoeuvre from one side to another without wasting ten minutes and gassing up the entire house going back and forth. I don't want to place car movers under each wheel every day neither.

Since the floor in the garage has to be built up again from scratch I was thinking I could install some sort of rail system across the width of the garage, incorporate bearings or a roll-over system and load it with a strong metal plate, on which i could park a car and then push it sideways.

Question is, how would i best go on and deal with it?

The rails would be bolted on straight to the existing original concrete floor and new concrete screed would then be added on top of the old floor to make for a new floor, incorporating a sliding system with a metal plate or ramp. when the plates are pushed to one side the other side should still be a "flat" floor with only a couple of linear "grooves" from the existing rails. Another car should easily be driven above it without damaging or bumping onto it..

IDEAS?....
I sort of have some sketches in my mind but nothing really fancy..

 

[70-camaro]

Here is all you need. A good set of car dollies.

 

[BLUE72CAMARO]

Its going to get pricey in a hurry but you could sink two crane rails in to the floor so they are flush with the pad running in the directions of travel. We have these in several places in our plants for gantry cranes and fork trucks carrying 25k coils drive over them all day and don't hurt them. Once you had the rails in place then all you would have to do is design and fab either a large car to support all 4 tires or possibly two pans per vehicle that would hold each side of the vehicle separately that had casters underneath to ride on the rails. This would probably be a bit awkward but would save quite a bit on materials I would think. I suspect that you will end up needing some sort of ramps to get on and off the carts since you will need structure and casters under the car.

 

[BLUE72CAMARO]

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Here is all you need. A good set of car dollies.

Those things are fine for car storage but if you actually drive the vehicles on a regular basis they are a giant pain. Also the ones I have take two guys to move a car with because one guy cant push hard enough to get the casters to turn the direction you want to go.

 

[Shizzle]

I had those dollies for my K5 Blazer, they don’t like heavy vehicles, not that the Blazer was a heavy vehicle.

 

[ssupercoolss]

Go Jacks. We have used these at work to move cars around parking lots. Basically a more heavy duty version of what was posted above, but you can see that these will jack up your car (tire) using the foot pedal. not cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Go-Jak-SuperSlick-Vehicles-500lbs-Individually/dp/B00P00YLUA

 

[Revin]

 

[70-camaro]

Go Jacks. We have used these at work to move cars around parking lots. Basically a more heavy duty version of what was posted above, but you can see that these will jack up your car (tire) using the foot pedal. not cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Go-Jak-SuperSlick-Vehicles-500lbs-Individually/dp/B00P00YLUA

These would be more convenient and you would only need one set.

 

[gramps]

I would think adding a couple more garage doors would be much less expensive than adding rails and plates and whatnot. Not to mention so much easier than playing Tetris with the cars.

But my thought would be 2 rails sunk in the concrete run cross ways in the garage, each side car with a steel plate the size of a car mounted on rollers that sit on the rails. Probably need to devise a ramp of sorts to get the cars on and off..

 

[willem]

Its going to get pricey in a hurry but you could sink two crane rails in to the floor so they are flush with the pad running in the directions of travel. We have these in several places in our plants for gantry cranes and fork trucks carrying 25k coils drive over them all day and don't hurt them. Once you had the rails in place then all you would have to do is design and fab either a large car to support all 4 tires or possibly two pans per vehicle that would hold each side of the vehicle separately that had casters underneath to ride on the rails. This would probably be a bit awkward but would save quite a bit on materials I would think. I suspect that you will end up needing some sort of ramps to get on and off the carts since you will need structure and casters under the car.

thank you for your input, that is a bulky design however and i'm looking for a "covert" setup
good clear instructions though thanks!