JasonPAtkins
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- Joined
- Sep 30, 2010
- Location
- Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Hey guys, I'm designing my new workshop and trying to work something out without direct experience that I can measure/remember.
I have a shipping container behind where my shop will be built which has a slab in front of it and a movable, level, dock plate to bridge the gap between the open container and the slab. My hope was to have the shop floor on the same level as this container so that you could move a load between the shop and the container without having to go up hill. However, I'm realizing as I site the shop a little more accurately that this isn't going to be possible. Building the shop slab to the container floor height is going to put the front of the shop, where the land is higher, too low, meaning it might tend to let a heavy ran wash into front bay door of the shop. I realize that can be dealt with with proper drainage, but I'm worried that after I'm not here anymore it might not be maintained, leading to mud washing into the shop floor.
Anyway, I have a solution worked out, which lets the incline be done over a 10m (33') length of slab. (For anyone curious from the other thread, it will mean an incline in the floor in the room in the back corner, behind the machining room, where there's just a section of pallet racking, whose feet I'll shim back to level.) The least rise I can get away with is 8" (2% grade). However, the ideal would be more like 20" (5%). If the concrete is nice and even and clean, how much grade do you think is workable? I realize least is better, but what's a reasonable compromise? This ramp will be used probably less than once a week, most often to move less than a thousand pounds with a manual pallet jack. Though I do need to use it (once) to unload a 6000# Tree J425 mill from the container into the shop. For that one move though, I'll anchor something up in the shop and use come alongs to pull it up the hill, as I think any incline is a dangerous one to handle that much weight on steel pipes manually, just in case it gets away.
Does anyone remember pushing/pulling a ton on a pallet jack up a 2% grade? How about 4%? I don't mind pushing hard, but am trying to figure out how much incline starts to feel unsafe while handling a load.
I have a shipping container behind where my shop will be built which has a slab in front of it and a movable, level, dock plate to bridge the gap between the open container and the slab. My hope was to have the shop floor on the same level as this container so that you could move a load between the shop and the container without having to go up hill. However, I'm realizing as I site the shop a little more accurately that this isn't going to be possible. Building the shop slab to the container floor height is going to put the front of the shop, where the land is higher, too low, meaning it might tend to let a heavy ran wash into front bay door of the shop. I realize that can be dealt with with proper drainage, but I'm worried that after I'm not here anymore it might not be maintained, leading to mud washing into the shop floor.
Anyway, I have a solution worked out, which lets the incline be done over a 10m (33') length of slab. (For anyone curious from the other thread, it will mean an incline in the floor in the room in the back corner, behind the machining room, where there's just a section of pallet racking, whose feet I'll shim back to level.) The least rise I can get away with is 8" (2% grade). However, the ideal would be more like 20" (5%). If the concrete is nice and even and clean, how much grade do you think is workable? I realize least is better, but what's a reasonable compromise? This ramp will be used probably less than once a week, most often to move less than a thousand pounds with a manual pallet jack. Though I do need to use it (once) to unload a 6000# Tree J425 mill from the container into the shop. For that one move though, I'll anchor something up in the shop and use come alongs to pull it up the hill, as I think any incline is a dangerous one to handle that much weight on steel pipes manually, just in case it gets away.
Does anyone remember pushing/pulling a ton on a pallet jack up a 2% grade? How about 4%? I don't mind pushing hard, but am trying to figure out how much incline starts to feel unsafe while handling a load.