Guy:
You've probably already gotten several replies, but just in case....we have
"bucket" cherry pickers over here too. Great for looking in the window of
your neighbors bedroom on really boring nights. You can use one to pull a
Sprite motor, but you would still have to stand in the basket over the car
and put a rope around your neck, a la Cecil Cousins. The cherry picker
people are referring to however is maybe better described as a cantelever
hydraulic shop crane. Basically a welded up "arm" on casters with a jack
moving it up and down. Rolls under the car and extends over the engine.
Chinese versions are availabe here for $150 or so.
JohnD
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:17:38 -0700
From "David Ramsey" <dwramsey at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: RE: Cherry Picker? (little LBC)
I can understand you not knowing what a "Cherry Picker" is, what I don't
understand is why you would weld a flat jack to one? By the way a flat
jack I would assume is what we call in the states a "farm-all or Hi-Lift
jack". Not what I would call a good replacement for a load rotor at
all.
Crash
Several have mentioned using a Cherry Picker to remove an engine.
Are we talking the same thing? It seems a rather an over-specified
piece of
equipment for removing LBC engines!
To me a Cherry Picker is an industrial-type access machine which
consists of a
platform or basket on an extending hyraulic or electrically operated
arm.
The basket typically takes one or two men and the 3-dimensional movement
is
controlled from the basket by a control panel. Large self propelled
ones will
raise the basket to well over 100, or more (as used by fire services in
some
areas) but even the small trailered ones will lift the platform to 25
feet
plus.
I guess it would do the job but it dosn't seem like the sort of
equipment that
many people just have lying around the place.
Guy
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