It’s 128kg. I’m assuming that aside from needing help to load it in and get it out, there’s no problem with that much load in such small footprint area?
I’ve half killed the car before loading far more in slabs/rubble, but just thought I’d see if hive-mind needed to point out something I’d not considered?
Delivered a lump of green oak of nearly the same weight to a friend. Kept it in the boot area as didn’t fancy it on top of the folded down seats. Just over and ahead of the rear axle. Seats up to keep it in place, not that it was likely to move.
There will probably be bits that are removable, so take them off first.
Ours has a door, inside plates, top flue plate and bars all removable, there’s 20kg there.
I brought home a 7kw stove and 10packs of engineered oak flooring in my apparently crappy french car….
I didnt realise there were cars out there that would struggle with this.
Same crappy french car brougt home an lt85 gear box and a 3.5litre v8 engine from a land rover, in one trip and a 200tdi diesel engine on the next trip without batting an eyelid.
Might be more concerned if i was carrying this stuff on a daily basis for long distances.
So just think of it as being like any other abduction or hostage taking. Pack plenty of gaffa tape, zip ties, a video camera and a list of demands and you’ll be fine
Just get the 3 guys to lift it in there…. then leave it in there. Bit a of plumbing and bingo – wood gas powered car
Years and years ago I was down visiting some friend in bristol and for reasons I can’t remember one of them gave me an old compressor. We manhandled it into the back of my old Mk1 Polo – it wasn’t that big but was very old and very heavily built – proper belt driven thing with flywheel and all sorts and a big spiral of copper pipe leading into the tank.
Got it back to Scotland and couldn’t get the bloody thing out. I had a day job at the time and when I went to my workshop at the weekend a) theres was nobody about and b) the workshop was on the 3rd floor of a big old victorian warehouse, so even if I could have got it out of the car I wouldn’t have been able to get up the 5 flights of fire escape steps.
I ended up leaving it in there for about 3 months – long enough for someone at work to seriously ask me if it was a still and I was brewing my own road fuel.
When I finally did get out and up the stairs I plugged it in and…. it was shit. A compressor with asthma. It couldn’t even blow up a balloon.
My Irish solicitor pal left a beer barrel in the back of his Mazda while he was inside Wetherby Magistrate’s Court defending a colleague on a speeding charge. What made it worse was that the car door lock was broken and, rushing because he was late, he managed to leave the keys in the ignition and the engine running then lock the door by holding the handle up. The court was cleared while the bomb scare was sorted and when they re-convened everybody was laughing at my pal and his colleague got off. He never really lived that one down.
Which Contura did you get Bear? if the bricks are shaped then i would get the correct ones for the job, £90 but should last 5 years plus if looked after.
Hi Twinw4ll – It’s a 51L, paid £400 for it and it’s in great nick. Well chuffed. Just spoke to the seller (nice bloke) and it seems they are air flow ports, so looks like they’ve just perished on the left, which I’ll patch up with fire cement and see how it goes.
Does that seem sensible?
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