Lew Hodgett wrote:
dpb wrote:


Are you able to pick these pallets up w/ a sling? If so, an overhead
rail w/ just a block and tackle or manual chain hoist is pretty cheap
(and more importantly, perhaps, quite simple to erect as opposed to
trying to cobble up a homebuilt lift or scissor table). I'd think it
well worth the investment to buy an inexpensive pallet mover, though.

As mentioned, a trailer with a lift gate and a driver with a pallet
mover and you are in business.

After sending last post, the idea of a manual chain fall or an electric
hoist hit me.

Add an overhead rail and you are done.

Certainly the lowest cost, fastest way to solve the problem, if the
trucking company shows up not prepared.

If you read the beginning the whole point is to avoid the liftgate
charge they make if send truck w/ lift gate...since drivers are
obligated to get it to the rear of the truck (just not to the ground)
they almost always have the pallet truck for inside the truck...

Altho another totally different tack, Morris -- instead of the tall lift
to the semi at your place, what about the lower lift to you pick-em-up
and then take it to the terminal?

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