My homemade cycle lift table

[hjfisk]

Well I hope the best for you and your new en devour . Sometimes a change like that is the best thing you can do for yourself, I did it about 18 years ago and have never looked back. I lived in Maine , had bought a house and had my wife and 2 kids, but where I was living I was constantly looking for work , that got very tiring after about 5 years, so we moved here to S. NH. Just locked the house up and moved , started over completely. It was tough making 2 mortgage payments then after about 7 years we sold the place in Me. It was the best move I could have ever done.

[chuck hahn]

Well I am working on bikes and staying kinda busy. Looking for outside work as well, but I am eating and have a roof over my head. Still shaking the tree hoping something better comes out...I think everyone knows the drill these days.

There are a lot more shops and such around here than where I was in Texas. That's why Stahlgrau333 suggested I move up here and get apps out in this area instead..so I didn't have anything to loose and we made the move.

I keep it at a day at a time right now. Sooner or later the phone will ring. I went and filled out an app at a Forklift repair and sales place. Wrenching is what Ive always done one way or another. At the die shop back in MI we did all our own machine and forklift repairs and maintenance ourselves, so its not a stranger to me by any stretch.

Chuck, have things gotten better for you? I know you were going through a rough spot financially. Is the outlook better in OK than in TX?

[chuck hahn]

On August 2nd.

[hjfisk]

Chuck, I just noticed your location has changed when did that take place?

[chuck hahn]

Yes Robert, the seal along the pump arm shaft weeps. I gotta look into finding a replacement for it soon.

Back aches and kneeling by the bike was the problem..can only take so much. Don't have the free flowing cash to just go by a Harbor Freight one, so the idea to make one myself was born. Looked at several Youtube vids and too it from there.

[robertbarr]

Interesting. You can clean and detail a bike for an afternoon, without a week-long backache afterwards.

It seems your floor jack needs Depends.

[chuck hahn]

Got something like 20 bucks in total hardware costs. Still almost free. Just got in from painting it. Let dry real good and roll a bike up. I got my shipment from Boulevard yesterday so I got stuff to do now. Which was the motivator to build it in the first place.

[Sci85]

Nice Chuck. Nothing like free!

[chuck hahn]

Next will be to get a wheel chock and paint it. Guy even left half of a 5 gallon pail of white paint...so yup the lift is gonna be white.

[chuck hahn]

Previous tenant at Stahlgrau333s place left a bunch of 2X6s and some 3/4 plywood behind..so it all became a cycle lift.

Has a basic cantilever design with a lock that drops down in the center and jams against one of the bases cross members. Uses the floor jack as the lifting device. Installed a rope running along the bottom of the table to lift the lock from the jacking end. Lift the rope, unlock the lock, and lower the table.

Eye bolts at the corners for tie downs. Made an extention side plate for the side stand when rolling the bike up. Roll the bike up and set on side stand. Get on the table and then lift up to the center stand. Roll the bike ahead off the center stand and she sits back down on the side stand. Roll bike off the table.

I used all 1/2" zinc plated bolts and red loctited the nuts. Also I cut some 1/2 ID galvanized pipe at 2 7/8" and sleeved all the pivot points with it and then ran the bolts thru. This eliminates the threads from chewing up the wood.

LOCK IN DOWN POSITION..



ROPE LEADING TO THE .FRONT OF TABLE...



HOLD ROPE AND UNLOCKS THE LOCK FOR LOWERING.




TABLE LOWERED AND EXTENDED....




SIDE STAND PLATE.....




SIDE STRUTS..2 ON EACH SIDE.




METAL RAMP I HAD ...



JACK IN THE LIFTING SPOT. I AM GONNA MAKE ANOTHER 2X6 AND MAKE THIS AREA STRONGER. SINGLE RIGHT NOW BUT I THINK A DOUBLE WOULD BE SAFER.