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29/1/2016 at 6:49pm
Location: Midlands
Outfit: Esterel Top Mobile 3 berth folding
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I am looking for advice on getting the caravan in and out of the garage.
The road is at an angle and the driveway slopes towards the house, with very little room to spare to get through the gates at the bottom of the slope. The drive then continues, very narrow, along the side of the house to the garage, the entrance of which is offset. So reversing the caravan from road to garage is impossible.
I figure if I attach a block and tackle to the tow ball of the car and to the van, I can lower while my wife steers to get down the slope, or back up the slope to do the reverse task.
The drive way from road to gate is 9 metres, then another 13m of flat drive down the side of the house. The flat part I can manage by hand, so I need a system that will allow me to move the van a minimum of, say, 11-12 metres.
The van weighs c 800KG - too heavy to hold back on the slope.
- What system do I need to cope with with that weight? I though perhaps a 3:1 might be enough, but maybe I should have 5:1? The catch of course, is that to move 12m, I would need 60m of rope!
- Can I get away with thin'ish nylon braided line, or must I use rope, or even cable.
- I can't mount a strong point in the road, so I plan to park the car sort of sideways on, so that the tow ball is centred to act as the fixed point off the top of the drive, in the flat of the road. Is that sensible?
- If I get a length of chain to wrap around/through the frame of the van tow bar, I plan to use that as the attachment for the moving pulley block. Is that OK, or would a plate and tow ball be better?
- If someone can tell me how to do it, I could try to measure the slope of the drive?
- Any other questions or comments?
Thanks, Jonathan
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