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Brendan

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What's everyone doing for the awkward items of plant, stuff like 80kg+ wackers and pecker for the mini digger, normally just crack on and struggle to get it on the pickup or have the tipper trailer handy as generally don't have he luxury of another pair of hands, but alas no mini diggers here and the tipper is miles away, although might get away this time putting a pallet on the plant trailer and the breaker on that as the strapping eyes sit on top of the sides of the gh1054 so too high for the breaker without being raised.

Seen a small engine hoist style crane which fits into a receiver hitch, doesn't look the best but would get the job done if necessary
 
Furniss

Furniss

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Brendan said:
What's everyone doing for the awkward items of plant, stuff like 80kg+ wackers and pecker for the mini digger, normally just crack on and struggle to get it on the pickup or have the tipper trailer handy as generally don't have he luxury of another pair of hands, but alas no mini diggers here and the tipper is miles away, although might get away this time putting a pallet on the plant trailer and the breaker on that as the strapping eyes sit on top of the sides of the gh1054 so too high for the breaker without being raised.

Seen a small engine hoist style crane which fits into a receiver hitch, doesn't look the best but would get the job done if necessary
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When I didn't have an old machine at yard I had a elecric winch in the shed and used to back under it, assuming you have machine at other end.
 
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Brendan

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Furniss said:
When I didn't have an old machine at yard I had a elecric winch in the shed and used to back under it, assuming you have machine at other end.
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Yeah the 3t on the other side, don't have my garage anymore (currently building an extension where it was not got round to sorting what I'm going to do to replace it as was originally in the house but changed to gain another room) and got rid of the old engine hoist I had. Normally just pick it up and put it on but pulled a muscle the last week then did it again worse a few days later while recovering picking the breaker up, lifted it out from where it was fine, it all went sideways when bent down to lift it into a wheelbarrow
 
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Smiffy

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Have you thought about getting some pallet racking to store them on and set at the bed height. I can't pickup a 3t breaker by myself but I can definitely drag them around my self
 
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groundworker

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Been thinking about a swing lift for my new truck but not looked into it properly. Usually heavy stuff travels with the mini digger so not a big deal but there will definitely be occasions where heavy kit has to be handballed on and I'm not looking forward to it.

Not sure if there is anything suitable for a pick up though?
 
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Brendan

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Smiffy said:
Have you thought about getting some pallet racking to store them on and set at the bed height. I can't pickup a 3t breaker by myself but I can definitely drag them around my self
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When I eventually build another garage that will be the plan. It's only a sb102 breaker so 95kg ISH, generally that, the trench wacker and the wacker don't give me too much bother, I mean they're not the lightest but manageable, funnily enough when I was on the back of the pickup it was only a bag of cement awkwardly passed to me from low down and at full reach to the side that started it
 
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Brendan

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groundworker said:
Been thinking about a swing lift for my new truck but not looked into it properly. Usually heavy stuff travels with the mini digger so not a big deal but there will definitely be occasions where heavy kit has to be handballed on and I'm not looking forward to it.

Not sure if there is anything suitable for a pick up though?
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There's a few weld on options, that will lift a decent weight but only seen that receiver style hitch as a temp option, you could possibly get something fabricated to bolt on and off to save having to keep one permanently mounted
 
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William127

William127

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Giant is ideal for that kind of thing, bit expensive just for loading whackers though 😆
My Dad used to keep the whacker on top of a 2 drawer filling cabinet in his garage, reverse up to it, slid/quick lift on/off the back if the pickup, a lot easier than lifting it on/off the floor
 

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
it's not slung on the rat s**t strap - that's securing the pallet to the tilty .. ain't coming off that pin -- well not unless the hook jumps the wire :ROFLMAO:

was going to suggest a gibbet fixed to a post, fixed to a wall of the garage/house, beside the drive and a hand winch ... could be kept flat against the wall and swung out to reverse under with the load on it or the reverse to unload ;):rolleyes:
fitting it to a full height post would give you the ability to spread the load on the fixings to the wall
something along these lines but on a lighter scale if only lifting 100-ish kgs - could even use a piece of sliding door track and a roller
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