This morning Canadian Tires advertises a 1 Ton Chain hoist for $89.99 CAD.
In USD the price is even lower.
A hoist is not suited for everyone. However if you're working in your
basement where you can install a ceiling track it can provide with greater
mobility. The other alternative I am looking at is the Premium Utility Lift
used to rise up Motor Bike and ATV at $119.99 CAD


> wrote in message
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>I look at the lifting design. A trailer boat winch is used. The gears of
>this winch looks like it made with stamped sheet metal. The problem with
>those winches is that you have to make sure that it has a positive latch
>for when you are at the idle position. We had one of these winches
>installed on our mast stepper at our yacht club.
> Every year we have one member, when not careful, dropping the mast on his
> sailboat because the locking device get worn out and fails to hold (its
> load) the mast over the boat. To correct the problem we went to a more
> sturdy winch made in the US with machined gears at a cost of more than
> $200.00.
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> "Droopy" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>>I thought about building one of those out of an old ford bumper jack
>> and some angle iron
>>
>> If I ever do i will post results.
>>
>>
>> Dick Adams wrote:
>>> Peter > wrote:
>>> hj56 m,
>>> > I have been making wine for your and until recently never had problems
>>> > lifting 23L carboys from floor to table for bottleing etc. Now I have
>>> > put my back out twice in the last year and have 4 23l carbouys on the
>>> > floor. I either need to be able to pump to higher elevation or as I
>>> > saw purely bt perchance a Brew on Premses location that looked to have
>>> > a simple hand powered sort of fork lift that appeared to be lifting a
>>> > carboy as high as 7 feet. Does anyone know where one would be able to
>>> > purchase one of these or have Ideas for other solutions. Or do I have
>>> > to stop making wine and sell my gear.
>>>
>>> http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/wineblognew.asp is the URL
>>> for Jack Keller's Wine Blog. Search down for March 17th, 2005.
>>> There he discusses the Carboy Lifter Martin Benke invented for
>>> Jack. There are pictures and the pictures are accurate. I can
>>> say this because I purchased one. I have two slugs of plaster
>>> in my back holding up two compressed vertebrae and am still
>>> recovering from shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum. I
>>> paid Martin $230 for it and I wouldn't go without it for one
>>> day. It is an awesome device and is a steel at the price!
>>>
>>> Martin is not in mass production. I ordered mine in February
>>> and Martin says I have #7.
>>>
>>> I have found only one problem using it. It's legs must be able
>>> to slide under whatever surface onto which you want to load the
>>> carboy. Otherwise you have to move the carboy from the lifter
>>> to the surface. This means I need to raise my fermentation
>>> fridge off the floor.
>>>
>>> As Jack notes in his blog, Martin Benke can be reached at
>>> L & M General Store, 7800 FM 471 South, Castroville, Texas 78009,
>>> (210) 854-2178 or at home at (830) 538-6492. And I add that
>>> Martin's e-mail address is .
>>>
>>> An extremely happy customer,
>>>
>>> Dick
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