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I’ve seen a kind of such a construction for several times. Most people use it to work under their car. One “rail” is mostly movable, so that it is accessible for different kind of cars.
(sorry, I’am no native speaker)
If this doesn’t have an automatic door opener, then I’m even MORE impressed with the driver’s athletic skills than I am with their driving skills!
straight….straight…straight…..good..good….straight…LEFT! LEFT!! LEFT!!!….. @!$&%*…….
Don’t drink and drive.
It looks like the “Bridge” is a couple of Wide Flange beams turned on their side, the channel made from the flanges should guide tires right in… Providing the wheelbase is perfect,
And I don’t want to be the one who forgets to close the garage door and has to go out at midnight in the snow storm and walk down these ice covered ramps, and lean over the center to hook the latch.
Otherwise, Sweet High-Drive
Raise the bridge! Fortify the walls! Ready the catapults! The enemy approaches!
Shall I boil the oil???? The cow heads are piled up already beside the catapults… I have nothing else to do…
Boil that oil!
It even looks like there’s a space between the wall and the roof that the archers can fire from.
I’ve seen this before, except there was no garage, it just went out into nothing. I think it’s for allowing easy access to the underside of a vehicle.
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But there aren’t enough minerals!
ROFL
don’t bracket your comments with arrows; they come out blank.
meant to say: insert zombie trap reference here.
yeah, got to use * for stuff like that
Don’t drink and drive.
No I mean it, REALLY don’t drink and drive, here!
That used to be a somewhat common sight. The idea is; access to the bottom of the car, like a lift. Since that shop / garage is a 2 story, there may be a pit inside as well.
Or maybe the bridge slats have been removed for replacement. Nah. Too easy.
10 dollar oil changes. No really. This is what we do here. Oh, don’t drink the water.
From the car insurance agent: “note to self… ‘have a long and good talk again with the car owner to reevaluate his policy’”
Super compact parking for 2 motorcycles!
I hope they don’t own a trike.
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Actually, it looks like an old hay barn to me. They used to have ramps leading to the second story of the barn so they could drive the hay wagons in and dump the loads there (I think the middle of the ramp has rotted out) Then to feed the hay all they had to do was toss it down a chute to the feeders below. It may look like a kludge now, but at one time this barn was the latest and greatest in time and labor saving convenience…
Once the hay is in the barn (always a euphemism for me before today), this setup doubles as an examination fixture for the large animal vet. Bulls, facing the open barn doors, are content to feed on the hay during the exam. The separation of the rails forces the animal to assume a wide stance. That, coupled with the elevation of the rails, allows easy access to the underside of the beast and enables Dr Bovine to remain erect while he works.
Turn your head and moo.
I dunno… if I were a cow and saw Dr. Bovine get erect, I think I’d turn my head and run.
Another reason to make sure there’s plenty of hay.
I can’t tell if you’re kidding or not, but as someone who used to work for a large-animal vet, what you’re saying makes no sense. The post above is correct, however.
There is one a lot like this in the town eight miles east of where I live. It is on a small road that once was a highway (one lane each way). Almost every building on the side of the road it is on is on the historial register for once being the center of town, right next to a creek that was used for water supply. Behind the row of buildings is a railroad track with a lot of history, having been one of the early rail lines through Texas. It indeed was once a hayloft, and a common sight. Wagons would back up to the building and offload, just as you said, as well as having boards on top.
It looks as if this particular one was rebuilt at one time, using scavenged bridge beams.
Easiest driveway on the block, when it comes to shoveling snow
Not really. If the channels fill with snow, you can’t use the bridge. And that is a pretty slippery tightrope you are walking while you clear them.
Easy solution to that possibility is tarping them prior to snowfall. As long as you don’t forget.
Nope, let the snow fall, then one pass with the snow shovel down each beam. Done.
Spent much time walking on icy steel, eight feet of the ground, Jon? Sure, the iron-hangers of the Depression era did it, but it’s not for me.
Maybe you could put up some reflective markers to line-up the beams?
This striking bungalow features a detached garage with convenient parking for your rail car
As for the snow/ice problem—how about just heating them?
This last stretch can be particularly difficult to traverse…especially at night. With no lights to illuminate their path, they had better make good use of their I-beams.
They say most auto accidents happen within a few miles of your home, these folks help skew the numbers by having 90% of their accidents within 25 feet of their garage.
I used to live in a rual area. Such construct where known there before the invention of the motor carriage by Carl Benz. It is to provide direct access to the hayloft with a hay trailer. This spares the farmer the hard work of having to lift the hay bales to the hayloft.
There were often never any cross-beam in such constructs. It would be a waste of material, because haymaking was just once a year.
now go away or i shall taunt you a second time!
HA! Taunt away because this structure is perfect for the building of my large Trojan Rabbit!!
Maybe we could build a giant Badger?
Doc: Marty, open the doors, I think the flux-capacitator is fixed. You should reach 88mph in time.
Marty: Where’s the road?
Doc: Road? What road? A road is unecessary if all goes well.
Marty: Thanks Doc.
Where we’re going we don’t need…roads.
I was just parachuting the quotation
If the building is still in use today, Failblog and co. should place a cam there that is directly connected to their office. Either we get a lot of FAILs or a lot of WINs, but in any case it’s a win-win situation.
On the island of Sodor, there’s a place for trains who can’t follow the rules…
Awesome. Thomas The Tank Engine ftw.
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Let’s hope the insurance agent doesn’t want to come out and appraise the place, he might have issues with the garage and the driveway
OK Timmy, when I say now, put that lever it moves the rail two feet to the right.
OK Dad, you are doing fine, back it in slowly…
Timmy, are you ready…
Duh, it’s my dual monorail garage. Everyone will have one in the future.
Even worse, no automatic garage door opener.
After restoring his antique locomotive to original condition, Casey Jones would fire up the boiler and take it on secret midnight runs, shoveling coal with wild abandon as he left frustrated yard bulls and hitchhiking hobos in a cloud of steam. But he always returned before dawn.
This is a hovercar garage from the future thats decorated in an old america style. The beams are actually lightbridge support structures, needed for the frictionless hovercar network.
This was in Blair Witch 2
Cool if they ran freight trains over those rails
Quick, Marty, get the doors to Narnia, but don’t look down, Indie.
Foto from Russia, i am see is every day.
photo – country Moldova, city Tiraspol, borough Balka
This garage was never used.
somehow, i’m not sure this would not work briliantly with my threewheeler…
I landed on this page while listening to the Petra song Run For The Prize, and read the title while hearing the lyric “Got to keep your eyes On the str8 and narrow”
LOL
You can hear it @ YT: