Ramp angles - Sagaris

[Don1]

Was wondering if anyone can help... (My Sag is in service, so can't measure up)

Does anyone know the maximum angle a Sagaris can go up? The reason being the new house we're buying doesn't have a garage (yet), but does have a rather large barn, but on a steep slope the Saga can't get up. So I'm going to have to talk to an engineering firm to help lower the angle of the slope - but to what?

Many thanks....

[TheArb]

Don1 said:

Was wondering if anyone can help... (My Sag is in service, so can't measure up)

Does anyone know the maximum angle a Sagaris can go up? The reason being the new house we're buying doesn't have a garage (yet), but does have a rather large barn, but on a steep slope the Saga can't get up. So I'm going to have to talk to an engineering firm to help lower the angle of the slope - but to what?

Many thanks....

splitter clearance is 85mm, front of splitter is horizontally around 775m from middle of front tyre. I trust the engineering firm will be able to work out the tangent for the slope of your rather large barn.

[GR1FF1F]

Easiest way to quote it is probably fall over distance. So if you measure a) the clearance from bottom of the splitter to the ground, and then b) the distance from the point where front tyres contact the ground to a point 10-15cm beyond the front point of the splitter, then say you need a ramp which rises at (a)mm per (b)cm of forward travel. This builds in a little tolerance as the wheels should touch the bottom of the slope 10-15cm before the splitter nose dives into the concrete. You may want to vary the tolerance depending on how accurate the builders are, materials used and how flat the run up is. Obviously once the front wheels touch the gradient is less important.

Hope this helps. Had a similar issue with my garage entrance and had to pack the steep part out to avoid contact. Good luck

[TVR_owner]

There I was with baited breath waiting to read a post on diff set-ups...

[crimbo]

http://easycalculation.com/trigonometry/triangle-a...

Dont no if this helps, opposite = height of splitter, adjacent = distance to wheel, then calculate it and should give you an angle in degrees and the hype.

[Don1]

Thank you all.

David, how did you pack out your problem area?

[GR1FF1F]

Oh, it was highly technical

Have a gravel/shingle driveway and the ramp to the garage is paved. It was just very steep at the point of transition. But I did the geometry check on the paved ramp itself and figured out that was fine, and so extended the run of the ramp backwards by underpacking the gravel with a dry cement mix.

Hope that makes sense

[Don1]

Makes perfect sense - thank you.

Shame mine is already concrete, so I'm going to have to be creative!