"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
I followed all the links and looked at the pix - and also found an
actual propane-fueled fork lift on E-Bay. It's over in Davenport and
has been bid up to $380. My next door shop neighbor has an old Bendix
that I may be able to buy for about $300, but both of these take up a
bit more space than I'm ready to give up (yet).

Cheap enough for a forklift. The capacity is much more than most thing
you'd build from wood. There are some small trucks too but finding one
cheap is another story. Remember, getting that 300 pound pallet onto the
truck will require some reach and counterbalance

How about used equipment dealers? I've bought a couple of manual lifts for
a couple of hundred bucks. .

Once you get that forklift, you'll be amazed at how handy it can be. With a
platform it is good for high work if it is double or triple mast. .

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Once you get that forklift, you'll be amazed at how handy it can be. With a
platform it is good for high work if it is double or triple mast. .

Every place I can recall working at had welded up a pair of pockets for
the forks and a boom with a hook on the far end for a chain lift.

Also (OSHA UN-approved) putting walls around a pallet makes for a decent
work platform. If you make the walls 3' tall and provide a way t clamp
to the forks and to attach a fall harness, you might even slide in under
the OSHA radar.

Bill


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What about a giant see-saw? You could put the pallet on a platform on
one end, then stack weights on the other end until it counterbalances
and raises the pallet to the truck deck height. Then wheel up to the
pallet with the driver's pallet jack and slide it into the truck.

Bob the Tomato


On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:41:42 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:


"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
I followed all the links and looked at the pix - and also found an
actual propane-fueled fork lift on E-Bay. It's over in Davenport and
has been bid up to $380. My next door shop neighbor has an old Bendix
that I may be able to buy for about $300, but both of these take up a
bit more space than I'm ready to give up (yet).

Cheap enough for a forklift. The capacity is much more than most thing
you'd build from wood. There are some small trucks too but finding one
cheap is another story. Remember, getting that 300 pound pallet onto the
truck will require some reach and counterbalance

How about used equipment dealers? I've bought a couple of manual lifts for
a couple of hundred bucks. .

Once you get that forklift, you'll be amazed at how handy it can be. With a
platform it is good for high work if it is double or triple mast. .

Bob the Tomato wrote:
| What about a giant see-saw? You could put the pallet on a platform
| on one end, then stack weights on the other end until it
| counterbalances and raises the pallet to the truck deck height.
| Then wheel up to the pallet with the driver's pallet jack and slide
| it into the truck.

Kind of like a trebuchet, except that it doesn't actually /throw/ the
pallet? :-)

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

I recently saw a video of a guy who is building a replica stonehenge
*by himself* using simple machines to gain the necessary leverage.
Ahhh. here it is:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/

Bob the Tomato




On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:15:06 -0500, "Morris Dovey"
wrote:

Bob the Tomato wrote:
| What about a giant see-saw? You could put the pallet on a platform
| on one end, then stack weights on the other end until it
| counterbalances and raises the pallet to the truck deck height.
| Then wheel up to the pallet with the driver's pallet jack and slide
| it into the truck.

Kind of like a trebuchet, except that it doesn't actually /throw/ the
pallet? :-)

"Morris Dovey" wrote

Bob the Tomato wrote:
| What about a giant see-saw? You could put the pallet on a platform
| on one end, then stack weights on the other end until it
| counterbalances and raises the pallet to the truck deck height.
| Then wheel up to the pallet with the driver's pallet jack and slide
| it into the truck.

Kind of like a trebuchet, except that it doesn't actually /throw/ the
pallet? :-)

It is not a bad idea Morris. I did something like this in a home gym
installation many years ago. They wanted a machine to help out with the
chinning bar but there was no room for it. It would assist folks who lacked
the strength to do a chin.

In front of the chin bar was a piece of equipment that I drilled holes in. I
welded up a lever that could be taken out and stored along one wall. It had
a T one one end and a peg to hold weights on the other end. You piled some
weights on, stood on the T, and started to do assisted chins.

I am not sure how practical it would be for you. But if you could roll the
pallet out there, a movable fulcrum with a foldable lever would get the job
done. And it would fold back up out of the way. And the whole process
wouldn't take that long to set up, load, break down and put away.

If you put wheels on the fulcrum/base, you could roll the pallet right onto
the truck. You could also make the lever on your end long enough, that your
body weight would lift the pallet. Just put a knotted rope on it and pull it
down to the ground while the other end rises to truck height.

As for the trebuchet idea, I always wanted to build one.