Project HouseBus : Going up in the world…

Again, it’s been over a month since my last post, and this one is going to be short…

I have more work to do under the Bus, and it’s really not very high off the ground. I can just about squeeze under there, which makes working very hard. When I installed the fresh water tank, I jacked up that side and put a block in one rear tyre.

I had been trying to think of a way to lift the bus up, something like the car ramps you may drive your car up onto for working on a car.

Of course, they would have to be huge for the Bus, and I couldn’t find anything. Then I was watching one of the YouTube channels I like @FanatikBuilds and I noticed he has his GT6 up on 2″ x 4″ blocks.

Anyway, not viable to do this with the bus, and I don’t want to get it this high. The jack I have can only get the bus wheels about 2″ off the ground, and ideally, I don’t want to be killed by the bus.

So I went to Mitre 10 and bought four Macrocarpa sleepers. They were 200mm x 50mm and 2.1m long. Using them flat like this:

I put one layer under the front and the rear, then went around a second time with a block under the jack and raised it all to the height of two blocks, so 100mm up.

So, not a huge height, but it’s on solid wood and I feel quite safe to leave it sitting on them for an extended period of time, and it makes it much easier to slide under the bus!