Powered hand truck GIF

Powered hand truck GIF. Fits a nice niche in materials handling, although I imagine you would still have to be extremely cautious using it.

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$4,375 from Makinex. More: https://www.makinex.com/product/powered-hand-truck-140/

Probably have to recharge it with every lift, judging by the size of the battery compartment.

But it is interesting and could be fun.

Ralph

Already thinking how to build one with Harbor Freight air ram.

That is one of the neatest things I have seen in years. Another for the projects bin.

Yeah, if you didn't mind dragging a hose around that might be easy to build.
Going to have to save this.

Ralph

Put a pair of 125 90 16 s on it for wheels and it would really be useful. Might even be able to adapt it to my existing 2 wheeler
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LOL, as usual you're going macro (larger wheels)when I'm thinking micro (smaller wheels)Frank. Although for working outside the shop on dirt you've got a point. Would be really interesting to see how "tippy" this is. I was thinking how easy it would be to convert my HFT engine hoist to this but would need one of the air powered Rams like has been mentioned. In a lot of ways it might be easier to maneuver than an engine hoist. But it looks like the tilt head on the boom is crucial to balance. I would have been very interested to see the setting down of the fridge on the platform as it got chopped off the vid. While it's easy to grasp the concept I'll bet the devil is in the details.

C-bag it all boils down to geometry physics and the law of gravity.
on one hand you have the weight of the machine as a counter balance when lifting then you have to consider knowing how to maintain as near to neutral loading either positive or negative on the hands as the object is raised transported and set in place. on lighter objects it would probably almost be better to simply grunt and lift it rather than have to push or pull an additional mass around on heavier bulky items such as sitting a Refrigerator on a table once you get over center with your hands near chest high you will find yourself in trouble very quickly in their operating instructions they go into great detail of how to handle heavier loads the #1 recommendation was to have 1 or 2 other persons at hand to help. or get a forklift to unload the thing. WHAT?? if I need a forklift I don't need that thing.
As far as trying to convert an engine hoist to be used in that fashion if you have ever short legged one and tried to pick up something you probably found out real quick how easy it was to get in trouble.
You might also notice in the GIF how effortlessly the guy seemed to be moving things around that machine weighs around 170 LBS most of the items he was moving around were about that weight or more. if the wheels are not powered as well that is a lot of mass to try and push around on small wheels, but given that it cost around $4300.00 I suspect they are powered, they would be if it were mine.

When that fridge is lifted higher than the guys head, I'm thinking: "trebuchet".

"When that fridge is lifted higher than the guys head, I'm thinking: "trebuchet"."

LOL! And I mean that as I did laugh out loud! So true, so true Jon.

Interesting Frank, forklift? 1 or 2 others? I rely on my engine hoist and chain hoist exactly because I don't have a forklift or others around. I agree it's all basic laws of physics and that's why I wanted to see the set down of the fridge. You also have to be right about the powered wheels. I know that this kind of advertising is meant to emphasize the cool factor and we're getting used to seemingly impossible stuff like Hoverboards and Segways. So you would hope they had incorporated something like that into this, but it would seem not if you are supposed to have spotters/backup.

I have a couple of the genie lifts for lifting things in places when it is just not possible to get my forklift or especially my backhoe with forks.
Not easy to move around loaded unless on concrete of some other hard smooth surface but great for lifting
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I also have a barrel dolly that is a great help as well again only on hard smooth surfaces

Very cool Genie lift. Seen them, never used one. All this points out just lifting is only half the problem. And when you are trying to lift and then move on dirt things get complicated in a hurry. I've got a couple of wine barrel planters that weigh who knows how much and I would like to move them eventually. I've thought about adapting wheelbarrow wheels to my engine hoist but the old problem of how to move it once I've got it lifted comes up again. It's at times like this that I miss being in the valley and close to AG with heavy equipment. But it would not help because everything is too tight in the backyard to use that stuff anyway. I don't even have a lawn tractor anymore because we have no lawn.

C-nag many a time I have laid down what is called in the oilpatch "seals" or pads to move things on soft soils moving your wine barrels with an engine hoist would only require laying down some thick plywood with as little as 2 sheets you could move that hoist to just about anywhere as long as the surface was reasonably flat use a rope tied like this
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