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" What goes up must come down"...and vice versa?
Electric hoists. Can anybody give advice?
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He could use an electric hoist.
MacB
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[QUOTE 4920802, member: 76"]No. He is putting them in the loft, he will never see them again.[/QUOTE]
I'm not so sure it's a hoarding issue now, the story is just too flimsy, drawers and cupboards full of tools that he could easily carry up the ladder separately. Could probably have done it in the time he's taken inventing his poor excuse for this thread. Just have a think about the bare bones here, he wants to set up an electric hoist upstairs to raise and lower about 250kg. This has sex sling written all over it.
I'm not so sure it's a hoarding issue now, the story is just too flimsy, drawers and cupboards full of tools that he could easily carry up the ladder separately. Could probably have done it in the time he's taken inventing his poor excuse for this thread. Just have a think about the bare bones here, he wants to set up an electric hoist upstairs to raise and lower about 250kg. This has sex sling written all over it.
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Very good!
twentysix by twentyfive
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Petards are very cheap. Once an owner of such you can be hoist as much as you like. 
classic33
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It's a one-off shot though!Petards are very cheap. Once an owner of such you can be hoist as much as you like.
Bobario
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We have a load of the Silverline ones pictured above at work and they are pretty decent for a cheap hoist. We've had more expensive ones that were worse. The cables start getting tangled if you are using them regularly so we replaced ours with Dyneema cord, but if you are only using it every now and again it shouldn't be a problem. You may need some brackets to fit your scaffold pole as the ones that come with the hoist are square to fit on a beam not a pole. There are four bolt holes on top of the winch frame to bolt them to. iirc they come complete with a bog standard three pin plug for power. Just make sure your pole and fixings are up to the job.
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Thanks for that. I think I'll discard the square beam brackets and cobble something together out of Kee fittings to take a standard scaffold tube.
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classic33
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classic33
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There's a tap in my loft too. Those photos are giving me ideas....
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Wrong, pal. Storing and accessing my stuff is just a button press away. Ordinary mortals can flounder about in the dark searching for their pitiful plastic Christmas trees while wetting themselves worrying about falling through their ceilings.
