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Anyone use wheel dollies?

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DeadStang

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I'm not sure exactly what they're called... I have a storage space for work that I want to shoe-horn another car or two into over winter. It is relatively smooth concrete with few cracks and just a little cat litter on the floor. So I am wanting to buy the things that go under the tires and allow you to move your car all around laterally and such. I've seen some that seem to have a lever you step on to lift the wheel up so you don't have to jack up the car to "install" them. Anyone use these things? Where did you buy them? Are they called wheel dollies, or something else?
 
Wheel dollies is correct. I used a set for my car. Nice and easy way to move the car around the garage. The ones with the handles that can jack the car up are NOT cheap. I have 4 that I bought at big lots years ago, think I paid about $75 for all four of them. I wish I had upgraded the casters on mine as they sometimes will lock up on he concrete (if the floor isnt clean), the ones pictured below appear to have a more user friendly type of wheel

Northern tool has them as well as Summit, I'm sure harbor freight sells them as well

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http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200365530_200365530
 
There was a time when I couldn't live without them.... hell yeah.... they're great!

I think ours are straight from the Summit catalog.... are very heavy duty.... and after a year or so of use look like the day they came out of the box. We have the kind where the car must be jacked up in order to place them under the tires. It's a little time consuming and the self-jacking ones are likely much more desireable (probably more expensive also).

I had to use them because I cheaped out and only installed a 9' door on my 26' wide shop. When the shop floor was crowded, having the single door made it difficult to get two cars parked side by side. Now that I re-organized the floor space I can easily get the "prisoner" car into the spot without a door in front of it. Since my son is younger and has more energy than I do, I let him angle his car into the prisoner spot.
 
Thanks--looks like I need to do some shopping now. The last car that goes in is easy, but it's the second and third from last that are hard. Kind of like a Rubik's Cube, trying to arrange them.
 
Here are the ones I have. I would push the car into the middle of the garage to work on it, then push it over to the side on Sunday nights so I could get my DD in the garage too.
 
I think the ones you're referring to are called go jacks. We have some at work. They are ok for light cars on a smooth floor. The levers will breaks if you put too much leg in them. ie. heavy car. If you have any cracks that stick up about a half inch you'll fight them.
 
I have a set that I bought from tractor supply. I had the car on them for 6 years and they still work fine. They are great for moving your project around and turning it around in the garage.
 
Dad has a set of 4 that be bought from Harbor Freight. They have worked great and held up over the years - but we've only used them for his street rods, which are typically a lot lighter.
 
Here's a slightly older pic of Shag sitting on his wheel dollies. And as you can see in my sig pic, they're still being used. Yes, smooth concrete is a must.
 
I think you mean something like this ! I agree with sluggy but i think you can buy heavy duty ones too.
At my work we have a couple of them and they work fine.Of course flat ground surface is needed to operate properly.
 
The ones I have look just like those that Rick has. They work great on clean, smooth concrete, not so good on brushed concrete.
 
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