The cherry picker of which you speak, used to be readily available over here. It
seems the phone companies would sell their old trucks, with the old equipment
still attached. The problem was, idiots bought them. Said idiots got into
dangerous situations, such as power lines. Then the deceased idiots idiotic
family felt it was the phone companies fault, and sued. Now, you cant get one of
those trucks easily at all.
FWIW, my hoist has air tires and 2" hitch on it. When in the upright position,
it works like it was designed. If you need it somewhere else, you fasten the
chain to a loop welded on the upright, tip it back, and hook it to your car.
Down the road you go.............
Brad
Guy Weller wrote:
> Well, you know how these threads go -
> One person talks about using a cherry picker to remove an engine. I am in
> the UK and have run contracts where we used large access-type cherry
> pickers. So I visualised someone who used one of these. Unusual, but I
> guess it would do the job. Must be someone in the construction or street
> lighting business.
>
> Then three or four more appear to have access to these machines as well.
> This is beginning to be a bit beyond belief. Its not as if they are the
> sort of hobby machine that has a lot of uses round the house. Hmm, OTOH, I
> guess you could clean the windows, paint the gutters, maybe fix the roof,
> hang out the washing or adjust the TV aerial. Perhaps there is a booming
> market for these machines in the States.
>
> Time to ask the list, and Flashfire is quick to set me straight!
>
> Guy
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