Ideas on how to lift store Slingshots?

Hard to tell from your pic, what is the measurement from floor to ceiling?
Quick googling says those things are 52 inches tall.
Do you have 9+ feet of space?
If so, you could do as ChemGuy said, but even at 4.5', just to keep it tight.
 
That's the garage in winter storage mode. Actually its quite a bit worse than that pic. Slingshots, motorcycles & e-bikes crammed everywhere.

One of these days I'm gonna get rid of all this crap and just have my 2 red cars and maybe 5 bikes in there, along with my motorsports art and collectibles, tools, etc. Someday :)
 
brex said:
Hard to tell from your pic, what is the measurement from floor to ceiling?
Quick googling says those things are 52 inches tall.
Do you have 9+ feet of space?
If so, you could do as ChemGuy said, but even at 4.5', just to keep it tight.
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Its gonna be tight stacking them. I can unbolt the rollbars if I have to. That gets me another 8" or so to play with on each Slingshot. Chemguy's idea involves building too much shit and I have no place to store all that stuff when its not being used. I need some kind of affordable portable solution that can be moved onto a side wall when not being used.
 
YoshiHNS said:
Flip them on their side and put them on a glorified taco rack or one of those sheet carts at home depot. Drain the gas first, and probably the oil too. Then you have to do spring maintenance.
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Seems almost feasible to raise the ass end of each up 6' or so from the roll bars, and park another under the butt. I could maybe put 6 in the garage that way, but I don't want that much weight hanging from the rafters all winter.
 
What about putting them on wheel dollies, then pushing them sideways, end to end, overlapping the rear wheels?
Again hard to say, but looking at that first pic, seems you could fit a couple more in that way.
 
motion said:
Seems almost feasible to raise the ass end of each up 6' or so from the roll bars, and park another under the butt. I could maybe put 6 in the garage that way, but I don't want that much weight hanging from the rafters all winter.
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Build a gantry anchored to the slab with some winches to hoist up the ass-end and then engage a solid lock platform to hold the rear wheel the park one flat below it.
 
Buy the tractor, as mentioned earlier,attatchment,racking.Its a tax write off for the business,Duh!!
Then in the working season, rent the forklift out to uppity rich Yankees. Sell it as "The warehouse experience" They can drive it around town all willy nilly on a full batree,or one tank.
Of course, you will swat down ,yet another Genius idea.. Do you even wanna store those things?
:Poke:Yanking our pud?
 
motion said:
Seems almost feasible to raise the ass end of each up 6' or so from the roll bars, and park another under the butt. I could maybe put 6 in the garage that way, but I don't want that much weight hanging from the rafters all winter.
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I was thinking raising just the rear only also.

Use a mechanical high lift (off road) jack to raise the one wheel. Then stick under the wheel a small fabricated "stick" that is just one leg (directly under wheel) or two legs (for step over) that holds it up when you take the jack out.

At the bottom of the stick like thing is a thin 2' x 2' plate that keeps it from falling over. You can still drive the next thing over the thin plate.
 
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