[Shop-talk] Cherry Piker Use

[ROBERT LANE]

I bought a 4 ft x 9 ft welding table that separates in the middle and only has the 4 corner legs.  The table was located against a wall in a building with a rough dirt floor.  The guy I purchased it from said it took 4 people to put it in the building. They had tried to use a cherry picker but it wouldn't roll over the rough floor.  I bolted cheap HF pneumatic tires to the outside of the arm wheel locations .  For base I added the the same size tires to 2 pcs, of square tubing with shims to make fit inside of the base tubing.  
    When I went to pickup it up the guy couldn't believe that that setup would work.  He started to break down the table.  I told him to just leave it together, because I didn't want to reassemble when I got it moved.  It was a little struggle but with a tilt bed trailer and a hand winch I hooked on the picker and winch the whole thing on the trailer. 
 The matter of necessity makes people do creative things.    

CATCH YOU LATER,
ROBO