[Shop-talk] Building a service elevator/dumb waiter under a house?

[David C.]

At 07:24 PM  11/1/2007  -0400, Paul Mele wrote:
><<I was thinking of building some sort of
> >lift, perhaps using some steel pipes for uprights, and a platform
> >raised/lowered by a small electric hoist or winch>>
>
>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 like to build 
some kind of lift to get stuff up and down without having to manhandle it 
up and down the ship stair.  Of course I would have to find some way to 
keep the kids from riding it...

Dave C