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Default Plans for a wooden forklift or pallet lifter/mover? (JT?)

Scott Lurndal wrote:

| How about a simple platform, 8' x 8' (two sheets of 3/4" ply) on
| a 2x8 frame with 2x6 joists (24" on center) supported by 4x6 posts
| at truck bed level. Build up your pallet on the platform, rather
| than on the ground, then just shift into truck.

I just love usenet! ;-)

That would work if I put the platform on wheels and added an elevator
to raise the items to go on the pallet.

Kinda like a fork lift that lets one raise the pallet, then build the
load. :-)

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