BEHOLD! THE FRANKENPICKER!

Good Job !!
When I got my Grizzly mill I had to use a neighbor's small tractor with front loader. Tedious.
A few months later for my Grizzly lathe, I rented an engine cherry picker. Even more tedious.

Lifting that much weight from the floor to the top of the work benches was scary !

I wanted to mount a ceiling hoist track above the work area, but that hasn't happened yet.
 
Bob, That is great I like the whloe concept. It is not a good match for me right now but once I retire and get a shop with enough room It will be on my build list. Space being an issue keeps me from buying a pallet jack.

The only thing I could see that could improve this simple genius design would be a way to add some out riggers at the third wheel end in case you have to take the jack up higher. other than that whats there to improve. Oh yeah a Beer/cup holders could be added.:lmao:


Mark
 
Great idea! I would add markknx 's outriggers at the single wheel, and some braces for the upright beam going to those outriggers. If you look at the standard HF cherry picker, you'll see what I mean. With no reinforcement, any failure in the upright beam could be instant and catastrophic. With braces, any failure would happen more slowly, and you would see it deforming before anything bad happened. Just a thought.

Necessity is the mother of invention!

GG
 
GarageGuy said:
Great idea! I would add markknx 's outriggers at the single wheel, and some braces for the upright beam going to those outriggers. If you look at the standard HF cherry picker, you'll see what I mean. With no reinforcement, any failure in the upright beam could be instant and catastrophic. With braces, any failure would happen more slowly, and you would see it deforming before anything bad happened. Just a thought.

Necessity is the mother of invention!

GG
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Hi Garage guy,
Your absolutely right. Yesterday it worked great. Today I almost has a failure as the joints in my floor are so frickin huge, I tweaked the forks. Back to the big shop to straighten them out and and build this thing properly. I did get the lathe set where I wanted it though.


Thanks,
Bob C.
 
Good thinking there. I really could have used one of those when I set my lathe. Maybe next time.

Bill
 
rc63 said:
Thank you guys very much for the kind words! I'm so happy I can contribute. This is what this fine forum is all about.







Bob C
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that is bad ass!
wish the pallet jacks were not $250
can't spend that much unless I need it now:thanks:
 
With such a useful device, now it's time to add lifting bolts to lathes and mills, rather than to deal with straps, cords, etc. … :biggrin:
 
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