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To: Red Badger; All
Well, as a former wrecker service operator, I have to ask- how to get the thing out of there?

Air bags could lift it, but then you have the problem of dragging it out and rupturing the bags... a crane can't reach it with the roof intact.

There is probably not enough headroom to snake a knuckleboom crane inside and lift... I wonder if they will have to break the front wall and excavate a ramp- or just build a new floor over the carcass?

Minor personal note- I did extract a car from an abandoned septic tank it fell into, years ago. The owner did not know it was there ( city sewer service had been available for years, the tank predated that. )-- but it was dried out, and only the front end was "down by the head"-- not the whole car.
It was a simple "J-Hook the axle and winch" operation.


BTW- note the rough, dark rectangle in the back wall? It almost looks like a doorway- wonder what purpose it served.

44 posted on 06/17/2005 3:19:24 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

It's a simple matter for a mobile crane, though they may have to take off the garage door and punch a hole in the front over the door to allow room for the boom. Build a support frame under the car, attach cables to all four corners of the frame, drop the crane to minimum altitude over the Escape, reel/lift the frame up, drive the crane out or collapse the boom, bringing the car out of the garage.


49 posted on 06/17/2005 4:04:31 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: backhoe
It almost looks like a doorway- wonder what purpose it served

This may have been an old 60's bomb shelter from the cold war era. I can't see a sistern being there..........

56 posted on 06/20/2005 5:26:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Army makes the world safe for democracy. The Marines make the world safe for the Army.....)
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