When the Crackerjacks club hosted Toni Bussutil, from Malta, to come and visit and teach us how to build big Maltese wheels, we were faced with a problem. In Malta they raise the wheels with a crane, but the farm where we would be shooting Toni's wheels was not somewhere we wanted to take a big crane.

After some thought, I came up with this design for a tip up base, where the wheel could be assembled on the ground and then pulled into a raised position by a vehicle. It worked quite well, in spite of Toni's initial skepticism, but he has become a convert, using a base of this design when he displayed one of his wheels in Montreal.