Machinery ramp help please

**whitey56** · 3rd June 2013, 05:58 PM

Hi all.
I just purchased this little digger, now i blew the budget bigtime on this one so alloy load ramps are out of the question for a while, I will have to make a steel set which will be 3mts long X 450mm wide.
The digger is 1.7ton so i am thinking 100x50 RHS rails and 50x5 angle for the treads, has anyone built a set and what thickness RHS would you recomend.
Thanks
Whitey

**RustyArc** · 3rd June 2013, 07:51 PM

How high do you need to get it? If it's going onto a trailer you should be able to get it on without ramps.

Very jealous by the way - those little machines are great, although a bloke I know who owns a 20 tonner refers to them as "pipefinders".

**whitey56** · 3rd June 2013, 08:32 PM

Hi Rusty, my tipper is around 1200mm to the floor of the bin, a little less tipped up a freckle. Yep it's a good one a lot more than I was going to pay but will be worth the extra $'s down the track.

**RustyArc** · 3rd June 2013, 08:58 PM

If it's going on the back of a truck then yes, 1,200mm is probably a bit too far to try and use the load-itself trick.

I use some steel ramps that my old man made up from angle - from memory the sides are 75x75x5mm but I'd have to check. They are mighty heavy tho.

Like the inclusion of the ripper in your collection of buckets.

**DJ’s Timber** · 3rd June 2013, 09:26 PM

75x50x3 RHS and 50x3 angle or 30x30x2.5 RHS would do the job easy.

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