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  1. #1
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    Default Wanted to borrow

    Blowed if I know where to put this post, so it's here where I know everyone.

    I would like to borrow, just to try out, a 500kg chain type lever hoist, just for a weekend. I'm in Heidelberg but will travel.

    If the chain hoist suits my needs, I'll go and buy one, or buy your's if you don't use it.

    Let's just say it's for pulling something out of the ground.

    Ken

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    Quote Originally Posted by neksmerj View Post
    Blowed if I know where to put this post, so it's here where I know everyone.

    I would like to borrow, just to try out, a 500kg chain type lever hoist, just for a weekend. I'm in Heidelberg but will travel.

    If the chain hoist suits my needs, I'll go and buy one, or buy your's if you don't use it.

    Let's just say it's for pulling something out of the ground.

    Ken
    Digging up some of your money Ken
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    What will you be attaching it too.

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    Default Digging up my money

    RC, ssssshhhhh, what I don't want is people jumping over my front fence armed with picks and shovels.

    I've dug up most of the gold anyway.

    Ken

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    Quote Originally Posted by neksmerj View Post
    Hi Dave,

    Mine is a suburban block. Believe me, if I could get a bobcat in, I would.

    My sideway is only one metre wide, so no machinery is possible.

    Ken

    Hi Ken, Don't know if you look in the Shed section, but Willy Nelson in Perth, got hold of some one with an excavator that could be driven through a house, (the door that is),
    so therefore some one in the earthmoving world would/should know who has one.



    Kryn

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    Default Borrow a lever hoist

    Kyrn,

    You are on the ball, you know damn well what I need the lever hoist for.

    Pipeclay, I'll be attaching it to a fence post.

    Everyone else can just guess.

    Ken

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    Hi Ken,
    If you have trouble with the fence posts pulling out, because they're rotten, try putting 4 star droppers in at a 45 degree angle, tying them about a foot above the ground to the one behind at ground level and so on. To get them tight, I twist the rope/wire with a bar like a Spanish wind lass. Believe it or not this is used to pull large 4WDs out of trouble..
    If a ratchet chain is not available, a decent hand winch would do the job also, NOT the ratchet drum type. Even an ordinary Chain block would do the job, just run the light chain around a bucket of water, so it doesn't tie itself up, my brother used this idea to pull a palm out of the ground.
    Kryn
    Last edited by KBs PensNmore; 1st Jul 2015 at 12:13 AM. Reason: More detail

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    Default Lever chain block

    Kyrn,

    Thanks for your input. I'm trying to pull out something that's green, 30mm in dia at the base, and several metres high.

    I have the loan of a lever operated cable winch, but it's a PITA to use, hence a chain type would be preferable.

    Still looking for a loaner, beer will exchange hands.

    Ken

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    Quote Originally Posted by neksmerj View Post
    beer will exchange hands.

    Ken
    Can I take you up on your offer...you will need come to adelaide to pick up the hoist tho ...i will do anything for a beer ...even go out and buy the chain hoist.

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    Ken.

    I have 250, 750 & 3000 kg here. The 3 tonner is brand new, only used twice. I bought it to get the angle of the dangle right on R.C's grinder arm. A six pack would cover it. I'd use the 750 myself, unless your up for a new fence. Failing that, I'm pretty good with Ammonium Nitrate.

    I'm in most of the week.

    Phil.

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    Hi Machtool,

    Many thanks Phil, I'll drop in this Thursday if that's ok.

    Ken

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    Amazing what Liquid Currency will get you. Pity, I don't touch it anymore and it's 7 years since my last drop .
    Kryn

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    Quote Originally Posted by neksmerj View Post
    Many thanks Phil, I'll drop in this Thursday if that's ok.
    You should have my number, but I'll P.M you any way. I'm heading out Stu's way in the morning. Its in my van, maybe I can drop it in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by neksmerj View Post
    Kyrn,

    Thanks for your input. I'm trying to pull out something that's green, 30mm in dia at the base, and several metres high.
    Sounds to me that the first thing you need is a chain saw....

    PDW

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