I have seen several recent discussions regarding the need for a hoist or some type of help for handling heavy weight attachments for milling machines such as rotary tables and indexers.
Since I recently acquired an 8" indexer, I found myself in the same position of needing some means of handling this 100lb plus beast.
After a little research on the net I came up with the idea of acquiring a lift table. They are available in various sizes and lifting capacities from places like Harbor Freight and Northern Tool. I had a coupon for Northern that got the price down to that price for one of their tables down to the HF level, so I recently acquired on of their 1000lb lift tables.
It had a scissor lift that takes the table up from 11" to 36.5". This is high enough to get level with the tailgate of my pick-up truck or the deck of my Tahoe. It also is high enough to extend to the level of my mill table and work tables on my shop.
So far it has worked great for its intended purpose. It also helped move several heavy items to higher ground when flooding seemed imminent during the recent Harvey episode. I know I will use it for other things in the future such as loading and unloading large full coolers out of the truck before and after hunting and fishing trips.
I think I'll be happy as long as it holds up. It seems to be fairly well made and has been a real back saver.
Since I recently acquired an 8" indexer, I found myself in the same position of needing some means of handling this 100lb plus beast.
After a little research on the net I came up with the idea of acquiring a lift table. They are available in various sizes and lifting capacities from places like Harbor Freight and Northern Tool. I had a coupon for Northern that got the price down to that price for one of their tables down to the HF level, so I recently acquired on of their 1000lb lift tables.
It had a scissor lift that takes the table up from 11" to 36.5". This is high enough to get level with the tailgate of my pick-up truck or the deck of my Tahoe. It also is high enough to extend to the level of my mill table and work tables on my shop.
So far it has worked great for its intended purpose. It also helped move several heavy items to higher ground when flooding seemed imminent during the recent Harvey episode. I know I will use it for other things in the future such as loading and unloading large full coolers out of the truck before and after hunting and fishing trips.
I think I'll be happy as long as it holds up. It seems to be fairly well made and has been a real back saver.
