Rhino ramps

[Rudiee]

Has anyone got any experience of "rhino ramps" or any other of this plastic type? I quite like the sound of these ones due to the low incline and non skid rubber foot. They seem quite expensive compared to metal ones and the thought of them being plastic makes me think twice. But on paper they sound good. I'll attach a picture and a link to the ones of seen.

https://dieselpartsdirect.co.uk/11909mie.html

[John]

I find the big problem with any lightweight ramps is that they can move when you drive on to them
I have a pair of heavy steel ones bolted to the floor (out side) that are far more stable/secure, if of course you have the space to leave them there...

[TimV]

By putting a piece of carpet around the rungs on a metal ramp, stops them running away when driving onto them.

Having said that, and I have some ramps from my earlier days, I find no use for them on the LR. On its wheels on the ground there is plenty of room to slide underneath, and if I want it higher, I use axle stands. Much safer.

[Craig T]

Are they any lighter weight than steel ramps?

I have a yellow plastic ramp that allows you to level a single axle caravan or change a wheel on a twin axle trailer. It came with our horse box but I haven't used it yet, always been at home so just used a jack when I want to take the wheel off.
That plastic ramp is pretty dense material though. It may be hollow underneath but still quite a weight.

I think my only concern with them would be storing them as they don't look like they slip inside each other like the steel versions do to save space.

Other than that though, sure they would work great.

Craig.

[Serious Series]

I would want the flat section a bit longer with Landrover wheels on top of it.
Axle stands my method for many years now , I saw a neigbour drive his car over the stop lip on some steel ones recently and he had them wedged against a kerb so they did not run away took awhile to jack his car up high enough to get the ramps out.

[w3526602]

Hi,

I would like a pair of ramps with about a 12" long "flat" before the incline, so that my driving wheels are actually imposing weight on the ramp before trying to climb the slope, thereby preventing the "cherry pip" effect, so no need to take a run at it. 
 
That might mean reversing up, with a RWD vehicle, or a much longer "flat". No problem with FWD or 4WD.

Occasionally I ponder on fabricating a very long ramp, so that all four wheels can be elevated. But then I remember a famous RAF AEC Matador.

It couldn't climb a huge ramp, effectively built as an elevated pit ... (purpose built for HGVs, designed to get all four wheels off the ground, with room to walk underneath with a grease gun) ... as the inclines were wet and slippery.

So the driver took a run at it, and slammed on the brakes when all four wheels were on the flat bit.

The 3ft high ramp gently folded flat underneath him. 

602

PS. Barbara once drove my 6.pot S2 Zephyr Mk.3, off the ends of a pair of Halfords ramps.

PPS.  I once watched a driver frantically departing from a pit, on a David Brown aircraft tractor (so heavy) ... just managing not to be overtaken by splintering, 3" thick, pit boards. Every board was bent down in the middle.    Hmmm! I've just realised, 60 odd years later, that none of the boards displayed an individual SWL. I doubt there was any sort of overall SWL displayed.

This was just before the Xmas break, so so the entire fleet of driving school vehicles was being packed into a hanger, with minimal space between them, even if it meant parking over the pit. Which reminds me, I got into a mistletoe clinch with the WRAF Scammell driver. She was a big lady ... could check the radiator levels of most big trucks, without standing on the bumper. 

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[John]

I've often thought about this sort of ramp

(pictures from a ebay listing, not mine)

[TimV]

Useful, but where would you store it?

[John]

Useful, but where would you store it?

I would leave a 86" parked on them at the side of the drive where it is normally parked, making the 86" and the ramps a little harder to steal...

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

I'm afraid  I'm the dissenting voice again. Unless we want to make very clear we're a person of demonstrable perspicacity,  taste and good breeding, can't see one reason to buy the Rhino set. They don't look like they give much lift? 

For that price you would expect more lift.

For £15-20, eBay shows umpteen slightly rusty heirloom quality examples. Lovingly prepared from the bottom of their garden to the back-end of yours what else do we want? 

Picked from a cast of thousands, many will come with a set of axle-stands or a trolley thrown in.  All will be just fine.

Me? My preference is not ramps. A high-lift jack gives, with high jack-stands, access not far short a four post lift. Tied-in to proper axle-stands (Melco AS30 or Sealey As3000) you'll see 3 nearer 4 foot in the air.

You can near pull-up a chair under there.

Ahem, I do have a set of ramps, but.... £15's worth of eBay finest, I put them at the end I'm NOT working on. Far too low to do 'actual' work, and with a massive footprint, they get in the way.

[2286]

I had this mad idea, if I had the space of making an inspection pit, using an old artic flatbed trailer with the centre boards removed.

Probably came too me due to spending umpteen hours underneath said trailers steaming them off and greasing up.

Re the plastic ramps I would want to see the underside reinforcing webs/construction.

I know that plastic wheel chocks have taken over in hgv world, but stopping something rolling places less demands than the compressive loading of a ramp.

[w3526602]

Hi,

I have met ramps cut from old wooden railway sleepers.

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[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

Says here...

Buy ONE Rhino ramp for the price of TWO and receive a SECOND RAMP
ABSOLUTELY FREE!

[Alan Drover]

Like buying 1 shoe and getting the other one free.

[John]

Hi,

I have met ramps cut from old wooden railway sleepers.

602

In the past I've bad them fron blocks of wood, the advantage being you can make them to suit any slope and have a level Land Rover when on the ramps, much better for oil level checks etc.