Brian Joseph

1 hour ago, TowZone said:

I sounds as though constructing a skid and maneuvering that under the vehicle by lifting one end. As that would likely be a much better alternative to creating forks which could do harm to your wheel lift. I am assuming you have a regular style wheel lift rather than the common autoload most of us are thinking about. That is what many of us operate in light duty these days.

 

I suppose if I were to do it your way and I had a Regular L Arm style wheel lift I would create short extensions lift one side of the car the stabilize on each end position the lift under and behind the tires then lift. Of course it will work better if you are able to remove the slides from your stinger. In the end a Front Loader would be ideal, since a tow truck doesn't make for a good front loader or rear loader in the situation.

It's a self loader.  What it thought I'd do is construct  brackets that go in the cross part that the l arms pivot on and go on top over the l arms.

Most of the weight will be on the first 4 feet of the forks. I'm going to build it,and test it on a car I have. Hopefully it works..the first car we tried to remove failed

They only have to be moved 75 ft to a road. ,but they are sunk into their axles 

As a hobby I collect and restore 71-72 honda z600 micro cars.  I bought 6 of them in a field in central Michigan.  The cars have been sitting over 35 year on the ground. The floors and rockers are gone. The first one I tried to pull out split in two. So I devised a plan to lift them lenght wise  with a fork lift. I ordered some 84 inch fork extensions to adapt to my jerr dan self loader. The cars only weigh 1200 lbs  I need to lift them to my trailer.  Anyone ever seen forks put on a wrecker?