[Spridgets] Cherry Picker

[HealeyRick]

Gee guys, we're talking a 4 cyl Spridget motor here.  It ain't no Mopar
elephant Hemi or 16 cyl Packard motor.  Back in the day (mandatory old guy
speak here)  we'd get two guys on either side of a pipe passed through a chain
to pluck one of them out.  I don't care what piece of Horrible Freight cherry
picker made over dung-fired Chinese forges (mandatory tip-o'-the-hat to Frank)
you have, it's probably going to take that weight without a problem.  If you
want to put on your big-boy pants, try dangling a Ford V8 and tranny over the
aluminum shroud of a big Healey: 
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j222/healeyrick/?action=view&current=IMG_01
52.jpg  I bought my picker from some guy that was selling them out of a
storage facility.  Pretty sure it was sourced "offshore"  but it's yanked a
lot of LBC motors and trannys.  If you wait for a U.S made picker, you're
going to have a long wait.  I'm just an old New England Swamp Yankee
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Yankee  that was pulling motors with a
chainfall slung over a tree branch or three steel pipes lashed together.  Man
up.

 
Rick


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 From: "corvallis at peoplepc.com"
<corvallis at peoplepc.com>
To: spridgets at autox.team.net 
Sent: Tuesday, July 24,
2012 5:44 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] Cherry Picker
 
Couldn't you make a Cherry
Picker if you have a mill and lathe: do you weld?
...bill in oregon
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-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Heard Saxon
Sent:
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:55 AM
To: Spridgets
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Since
the list has been "quiet"

1960 BE, original drive train.  The PO had started
a restoration which I
finished.  The engine runs great.  To bad the clutch is
shot.  I think I
drove it maybe 40 miles or so.  I need to pull the engine but
got involved
with restoring an old lathe, then a mill, then a swimming pool,
now some
stone walls need to be built.  And I've been thinking I should buy a
cherry
picker for the engine pull and also to move the mill and lathe around. 
But
for some reason, I just can't make myself buy what is inevitably going to
be a Chinese piece of shit.  So it waits....

Heard
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