First of all, if your foundation can deal with it/there aren't water table issues its a time honored remodeling improvement to just dig out a crawl space and turn it into a basement - you could just
<<I was thinking of building some sort of I'd like a larger version to get stuff up from the first floor to the second floor of my shops.... Any thoughts out there? PM _______________________________
I'm interested in something, too. I teach high school shop and we have a sort of mezzanine/attic over the classroom. We store lumber and other stuff up there and access is via a steep ship stair. I'd
Author: "FRED E THOMAS" <frede.thomas2@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:29:35 -0400
Thomas Jefferson invented them years ago, just a "pulley, rope, and a empty box", he called it a "dumb waiter" :) :) "FT" _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http:/
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That looks interesting; good starting point (along with the H.F. hoist). I used a similar setup years ago to store a pickup canopy in above the truck. I used a bunch of rope and pulleys and a manual
My dad has something similar to store the roof of his convertible. It works well, I think, but getting the car in the right place is tricky, I think. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com ____________
Mike writes... Ok, why stop there? What I would do, is find an electric forklift locally that has a bad battery. They can be bought for a song. Then, just gut the thing and use the mast head as an el
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I too have spent waaay to much time thinking about this. I have considered "powering" the lift with a tank that functions as a counterbalance. Storage tank, counterbalance tank, hoses, fittings, and
I knew a guy once who made a dumb-waiter type elevator drive system (small, to move clothes and food to the basement) out of a Genie Garage Door Opener. Gary --Original Message-- From: shop-talk-boun
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