Winch & me

[LBrown59]

I have a friend that has a great winch setup in his barn for raising a platform to the upper floor. It is for materials only!!! I think anyone that thinks a person would ride in such a lift should talk to someone that has had a spinal cord injury.
Riding in one would be foolish and downright dangerous. The lift my friend has pulls up beyond second floor then large planks are pushed across the hole in the floor. Then the winch is lowered down to rest on the thick planks. No one would ever ride to the second floor on the lift.

Or a shrink.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I know an old man thats crippled from being a hellion but he works on alot of things even has a 745 AC loader that s 3 yard artic rig. His legs ar useless and he cant climb he built a lift out of and ATV winch with a lift grad cable. He has an Ibeam track the lifts him hup on a skid. He has a mecanical spring brake for a break away and then also has an old Air parking brake off a truck axle. It has an air line to it from the loders air system. When cable break asn if the mechanical system fails It will dump the air and brake will lock down. I didnt belive him and he was riding uo it with a pair of bolt cutters in his wheel chair. when he cut it it locked right there.

 

[Wis Bang]

Pre-OSHA it was common for construction workers to 'ride the hook' standing in a crane hook for a quick ride up/down on the jobsite. My father confessed to it.

After college I worked for a small company that had once been a larger construction firm. The master mechanic told the story of being a new hand, way back, and seeing a crane out after spending the winter in the shop undergoing a re-furb. It worked two days on a new job and the site foreman rode the hook down. As he was walking back to the site office a pennant line snapped and the lattice boom fell to the ground.

They stopped that practice long b/4 OSHA cause the foreman was the owner's son.

That crane was never sold until it finally went to the scrap yard, nobody would buy it!

I worked for a trucking company that had their tires stored in an interior storage room w/ three high racks w/ an elevator that could traverse the length of the room. It was purpose built and had locks similar to a auto lift. It was made by a lift manufacturer around an electric cable hoist. The room was long and narrrow w/ the hoist riding a rail on the wall opposite the racks w/ a platform spanning the walkspace. You would push it along to the area where you wanted & then you could ride up and roll the tires you wanted onto the platform leaning the first against a metal support & then ride it down to the floor. Worked great and was purpose bult for that room. Was a unique soluition fo disapearing tires. Big steel door we called it the tire vault.

 

[Bird]

How about a manual chain hoist instead of a powered hoist? Seems to me it might be safer, and quite possibly cheaper.

 

[studor]

In mining there is sometimes a platform called an ore skip that takes material up and down the shaft using the main hoist gear. In most countries it is illegal to ride on the skip(because of the danger involved) I have been in South American mines where it is not illegal-- but I have also seen the families of miners lined up to get funeral money as a result. --- all to say that I agree it woud be good for materials but not life and limb

 

[PILOON]

I know that quite a few folks use a fork lift truck mast as the elevating mechanism.
Becomes a simple enough task of attaching to the floor and suitable brackets on the upper level.
Fork lift is usually a one way cylinder and AC powered hydraulic pumps are relativly cheap. Hydraulic power for up and gravity for down!
Hydraulic check valve would provide necessary safety measures.
A 'man cage' would be made to sit on the forks.

Many if, not most fork lifts, get scrapped with the mast and lift cylinder still usable, generally engine, age and accumulated other issues render them uneconimical to repair/rebuild.

 

[JDeerekid]

There was just a show on RFDTV the other day where a farmer built a nice looking elevator to get up to his catwalk to get parts. I cant remember what show it was though. I am sure it will be on again in the next week.

 

[toivo1037]

My idea was to use a platform that ran along rails on the stairway, to get the mower and other items onto the second floor storage room. Steel rollers, running along metal rails, with a platform winched to the top. I think it will work - once the garage is built

 

[JDeerekid]

There was just a show on RFDTV the other day where a farmer built a nice looking elevator to get up to his catwalk to get parts. I cant remember what show it was though. I am sure it will be on again in the next week.

The show is called SUCCESSFUL FARMING MACHINERY SHOW and is going to be on at 10PM tonight.

 

[rdbrumfield]

The name Otis should come to mind. He is the fellow, and you see his name on most elevators, that invented the braking mechanism that allows people to ride in elevators.