OT Homemade elevator

Riverslim

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Housebound today so posting photos I took where I used to work before they knocked the building down. Was told the electric motor came from an oil well, the transmission from a truck. Hopefully you can piece the system together from my pics.
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Necessity has always been the mother of invention. Whether on the farm, home or business working smarter not harder has been the key. gobble
 
Friends were thinking about putting in an elevator to there 2nd story. She loves large heavy antiques. My thoughts were build a deck off the 2nd story lift and set with a bobcat and wheel it in .Works nice and side benefit they have a fire escape to.
This also reminds me of the old hay carrier some of those had electric motors on them.
 
I dunno- you miss a shift with that old tranny, and end up falling to the basement! Actually, looks like a pretty good system. Totally illegal, of course, but a good system.
 
I worked for a guy that built his own "lift" . It was very heavy duty steel channel and angle iron with "wheels" that road in two channel iron guides . For power ,used a 5 or 8 thousand pound 12 volt winch , deep cycle batteries with a maintainer. Was big enough for a side by side frige and 2 men. It was slow but not scary. joe
 
(quoted from post at 14:58:23 03/13/18) I dunno- you miss a shift with that old tranny, and end up falling to the basement! Actually, looks like a pretty good system. Totally illegal, of course, but a good system.
ith the worm drive, I don't think a "miss shift" would result in anything but a stop.
 

There's an old Masonic lodge near here that met upstairs in a rickety building. The oldest member couldn't climb the stairs so the other members met several weekends and built an "elevator". It was loud, slow, screeched like a barn owl, and rattled going up and down. I never had the nerve to ride it but I know several who did.
The old lodge closed several years ago, but I'll never forget the homemade elevator.
 
Friend built his from an old forklift mast. Had a emergency stop switch & could be lowered manually. Just went up one story.
 

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