How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

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14th May 2012, 21:20
mattsdragons

How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

basiclly above really

just wondering how you all do it as we are currently lifting it but only have 2 people so dont really want to put our backs out, any better ways?
14th May 2012, 21:23
RogueTwoRobots

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

Stick the robot on its back, at the back of the car, with the boot open. Then fire the flipper. Job done.

What? :uhoh:
14th May 2012, 21:28
mattsdragons

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

If we want a broken boot, sure :lol:
14th May 2012, 21:33
tweedermeister

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

try getting more people ? or an electric car jack pushing up a flat piece of steel ?
14th May 2012, 21:51
blazerbotics

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

I think most poeple only use 2 people to lift them. Best thing is to get one of the hydraulic trolleys, if not get/make a trolley the same height as the back of the car and just slide in in and out.
14th May 2012, 21:53
Team Invade

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

We use a hydraulic trolley. Pump up to the boot height and shove the robot in. Might not be so easy if your boot doesn't fold flat however.
14th May 2012, 21:57
mattsdragons

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

We have a little hatchback so the boot floor is not flat to the back, got about a foot's worth of lift to do
14th May 2012, 23:37
Anttazz

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

You and the other person you're talking about should go to the gym before the next event and man up then just lift it in and out of the boot :proud:

We just have a piece of MDF that we use to get Chimera into the boot, just drive him up it. Eric and Scar we just lift and we did the same with T-Bone from Jamie's car. I think we even lifted T-Bone down a 3ft drop rather than bring him down the driveway when we were doing that actually, dont know why, probably because it was about a 10ft shorter walk :lol:

And if you can get T-Bone into the back of a Skoda or Eric and Scar into the back of a Matiz then you'll manage to lift BB into a normal hatchback no bother.
15th May 2012, 00:27
terry

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

Matt, just cut off the lower car boot lip and weld it to the boot door :shock: job done mate , just slide it in then.
15th May 2012, 08:08
mattsdragons

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

think a big piece of mdf and just drive it us would be fine, its the lifting thats the problem
15th May 2012, 08:52
craig_colliass

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

For me this question is answered in the design stage of the robot

For an example, Saint is transported in parts the weapon,wheels, hub spinners,lead acid batteries and top armour is removed first, this roughly half's the weight and makes the main body just about lift able.
Cherub has all the armour sections removable with batteries again this helps with the lifting.
15th May 2012, 08:55
mattsdragons

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

I had though about that, I had a full bottle of gas and 2 sla's in there, thats easily 15kg there

could probably take the armour pannels off aswell
15th May 2012, 09:38
RogueTwoRobots

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anttazz

I think we even lifted T-Bone down a 3ft drop rather than bring him down the driveway when we were doing that actually, dont know why

Probably because the chassis only weighs about 20kg max :lol:
15th May 2012, 10:39
mattsdragons

Re: How do you get your HW's in and out of cars

Bit if a difference between 20kg and 100kg me things :lol: