Best way to get it up - the driveway.

long piece of heavy pipe.... thread a chain through it.... hook to the axle of the car your pushing... and something under the front of the car your pushing with... the chain should be not too much longer then the pipe...

you can figure out how long the pipe has to be, relative to where you hook it up on the cars....

then you just get someone to steer and use the brakes... and push them in without harming the vehicles...

 

My .02
For a one time deal - FlatBEd Rolloff truck like mentioned
For a longer term multi - use.
I would rent a core drill to drill a hole in the cement in the back off the garage.
http://www.sunbeltrentals.com/equipment/equipment.aspx?itemid=0320730&catid=s520
Then cement / anchor a 2" receiver hitch in the floor. ( Flush to the floor ) Then install this http://www.got-chrome.com/popup.aspx?src=images/product/large/3610_1_.jpg
Then slip a winch on the receiver into that anchor and winch away.
I would not trust just bolts to the floor to anchor winch.
You could use this anchor point winch to pull a motor too. That or pull down all the rafters in the garage

 

If I'm not mistaken you can use standard chain and a Chevy truck.... they have been making chain straight and pushing Fords for years!

 

Our last house had exactly the same driveway pitch you have and I found it was safer and easier to just pay a rollback guy $ 35 or $50 to come and move it up for me. If I had been trying to move it up by myself there was the risk of it coming loose and rolling down and right into my neighbors house.

Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and pay someone a little to do things the right way. Sure a lot cheaper than my homeowners insurance deductible and having my rates go up through a claim.

Don

 

Neighbor with a big 4 wheeler,

 

The horse..... do you see it?????? the one that is getting beat to death.......... look...... right in front of you............

 

My garage/shop is in the back yard, and has a gravel driveway up from the street, around the side of the house, and into the backyard; and of course there's a slight incline. Over the years I've had to use a come-a-long or a block-and-tackle, to pull vehicles up to the garage area, and doing it that way takes too long and involves too much work. Theres a chain and hook cemented 4 feet into the ground at the top of the incline. Now I have a 9,000 lb winch. The plan is to bolt it to a hand truck I have, along with a loop of chain to connect with the hook/chain in the ground. The winch is still in the box, but the hand truck has been marked and drilled. I also thought about bolting the winch to a stub to go into my trucks reciever hitch. The garage/shop/driveway were done in 1990, and I've had to pull something up at least 6 times now. I've also got an old logging snatch-block to put to use to make for less strain on the winch. The incline I have to deal with is about 60 feet long. My body's too old and broken down to keep doing things the hard way. Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

AGREE! I can't believe this thread lasted 2 posts let alone 4 pages.

 

yup, sink a concrete anchor and then you can always screw in the big eyebolt and use the floor and remove it when you dont need it, the anchor stays in the floor flush.

 

Yes it's recycled so many times it seems seasonal... rolling, pushing, pulling, friends and I read the whole thing

JScow and 1931modela.... where is the tip jar? You made it all worth while!

 

shove it

 

this would be another good place to use a fat girl

 

Lesson here...
Twenty years ago I was selling my house and looking for another, little bigger blah blah...
I passed on any house shown to me that had a steep driveway for precisely this reason.

 

Still got a hill to climb either way !! JW

 

1) Drill a hole in the back wall of the garage

2) Thread a rope through the hole

3) Drive around in the back yard

4) Tie rope to back bumper

5) Tie other end of rope to heap

6) Drive away, towing heap up driveway.

Not really.

 

This needs to end.
End it on a good note but end it please.

 

this one works everytime

 

I have done this getting a 2,000 lb Generator into a small room. I hooked a pully to an anchor bolt in the room. Ran a rope from the generator through a pully hooked to the anchor bolt and then hooked the rope around the axle of my truck. As I backed up the generator moved forward . I could see every inch it was pulled until it was sitting in the room. To hell with a winch!

 

A small block Chevy may have a hard time making it up that driveway. Go with Pontiac Torque and you won'y have a problem!! LOL!

 

i did this years ago when i first started working on my 59 chevy wagon drilled a holle in the slab for a 5/8" bolt . sunk the anchor and set it in the hole bought a grade 8 5/8" x 4" bolt with some good heavy washers . harbor freight or northern hydraulics sell winches that go over a tow hitch ball get the one that powers in and out . hook the bracket over the bolt hook up a 12v battery and with a tow strap you can pull the car in or back it out . if the winch strains too much get a snatch block and you will be able to pull it

 

I haven't used one of these but know someone who has used it for a drive with some incline. It has low range. trailervalet.com

 

Have the ol lady get get behind it and push with your daily while you pilot the derilect vehicle. Tell her go heavy on the throttle as you wanna pick up as much speed as quickly as possible. When she reaches about oh say 88 mph have her jam the brakes. At this point you take over, Now your gonna Dukes of Hazzard that motherfucker over the curb and all the way up that mountain of a driveway right into the garage. To hell with paying some sumbitch to do anything you can do yourself,thats just dumb...

 

Got access to construction equipment?...

 

I can't believe I bothered to read this whole thread, but I gotta say iwannaflattie's answer is one of the best ever!

 

Move. That garage is not for you.

 

first, buy some ice cream
second, buy an ice cream truck siren
third, play ice cream siren
fourth, when children come tell them ice cream is on you when they get the car in the garage
five, crack a cold one and start working on her

 

I gotta say there are a shitpot of hillbilly ways to do this. I'm thinkin if this is gunna be tough on ya...., just wait till ya start building your car. Maybe it should just go to a shop. Just sayin.

 

Well, first off, being a do-it-yourselfer, you should have considered working on your car when buying your house. Any work outside will be null and void if being straight and level is an issue.
Call a good contractor and lower the house, and level the driveway.

If not, your project could be across the street in no time.

Rollback... simple

 

five bloody pageshave ya got the damn thing in the shed yet

 

go buy a winch and mount it at the back of your shop. you will need it alot. make it with a quick disconnect to use on a trailor, etc.