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I initially responded to this thread with a couple of sarcastic, possibly humorous, photos and comments.
I have since edited my original post and removed anything which might seem light-hearted or whimsical.
What Wayne Lambright is doing, and apparently continues to do, is seriously dangerous in my opinion.
He has "loaded and transported" a 928 and a little pickup truck inside his box truck.
He uses "ramps" made from dimensional lumber of uncertain spec, landscaping cinder blocks, and some sort of cloth straps.
He has a catastrophic failure rate of 50%, as recorded in his photo of the disintegrated wooden ramp and the pickup truck tilted and fallen off the ramps.
This flies in the face of basic common sense.
You don't have to be a structural engineer to figure this out.
Your ramps BREAK.
Your loads FALL.
STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP.
Get a real trailer.
Tell your "investors" that they have invested in a FAILED transport rig.
I love a joke and a crazy story probably more than anyone on this forum,
goodness knows I have spent 95% of my time on RL acting stupid with my posts and avatars and pictures.
But this is stupid and wrong and dangerous and it is only by God's grace that nobody has been injured or worse with this series of misadventures.
Nothing funny or entertaining here. Somebody call the Darwin Awards. And keep EMS on speed dial.
Never use cinder blocks standing up on end. They are much weaker in that orientation.
Always stack them with the holes facing vertical so the solid sides support the weight.
Back when I was 16 years old, I was wrenching underneath my best friend's Toyota Celica.
He had it propped up on a pair of cinder blocks standing on end at the jacking locations.
Not sure what trailer parks you 928 guys are from, but when I was a mere teenage mullet working on my camaro back in whispering pines, we knew better than to use cinderblocks with the holes facing horizontal.
Originally Posted by Daniel5691
He has a catastrophic failure rate of 50%, as recorded in his photo of the disintegrated wooden ramp and the pickup truck tilted and fallen off the ramps.
Aww come on man, he's loaded and unloaded 2 vehicles, which is 4 times on the ramps. Only broke a ramp once. I'm going to call that a 25% failure rate which doesn't seem nearly as bad as a coin-toss like 50% ALSO the one ramp didn't fold under the weight of the truck, so that's at least a 100% margin of safety!! Maybe we can come to an agreement that makes all parties happy, he puts a disclaimer in his signature so the casual RL reader will know not to do the things he's doing, and we don't preach at him (which probably does no good anyways).
04-24-2016, 04:44 PM
ALSO the one ramp didn't fold under the weight of the truck, so that's at least a 100% margin of safety!! 
Maybe we can come to an agreement that makes all parties happy, he puts a disclaimer in his signature so the casual RL reader will know not to do the things he's doing, and we don't preach at him (which probably does no good anyways). 
