Moving out of my shop

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIts time to move to a hangar.  I’m doing most of the construction of the Velocity in my shop at home.  My shop is in the basement of our house and has a single-car garage door entrance.  It opens up quite a but inside, but to get the Velocity in and out always takes contortions.  But, each time I do it it gets easier.  Last time, when I had to move it inside, I built a cradle that would allow me to tip it at a 45deg angle.  Unfortunately, I made the cradle about 4″ too tall which caused a lot of problems.  This time, to move it out, I used this same cradle, but cut ~4″ off the radius of the arc from the back support.  This made the job a breeze.  Also, Harbor Freight had wheel dollies on sale for $39.  I’ll use these to move it around the hangar as well.  You can see that I used these dollies under the front and back of the cradle to wheel it around.

Here’s a funny video of the process sped up ~5x.  You can see I got my wife, Anna, to help out.

Here’s some pictures of taking the engine off, and the cradle.