Trailer ramp cable lift - video

[Jon]

Trailer ramp cable lift. By Kevin Robinson. 8:33 video:

[Frank S]

Using the winch to raise the ramps is good but if he would cut off that extra hog iron off the backs of the ramp's chances are the springs would offer enough assistance to be able to raise them by hand.
I also didn't see any evidence of there ever having been a single chain to secure the load on the trailer.
I was given a Kubota KH 190 excavator because the guy's driver didn't bother to chain the machine down.
He said I'm only going a half mile when I asked him about chaining it down. The old gentleman who owned it is a close personal friend of mine, who I have been welding and repairing his equipment since 1980. Gave me the excavator after it fell off the trailer and broke the final drive on 1 side. He said I deserved to have it to cut up for scrap or do anything I wanted to with it because in his mind it was too old and wore out to be worth repairing. He had also given me my Ford 750 Backhoe and my schramm pneumatractor

[WmRMeyers]

Using the winch to raise the ramps is good but if he would cut off that extra hog iron off the backs of the ramp's chances are the springs would offer enough assistance to be able to raise them by hand.
I also didn't see any evidence of there ever having been a single chain to secure the load on the trailer.
I was given a Kubota KH 190 excavator because the guy's driver didn't bother to chain the machine down.
He said I'm only going a half mile when I asked him about chaining it down. The old gentleman who owned it is a close personal friend of mine, who I have been welding and repairing his equipment since 1980. Gave me the excavator after it fell off the trailer and broke the final drive on 1 side. He said I deserved to have it to cut up for scrap or do anything I wanted to with it because in his mind it was too old and wore out to be worth repairing. He had also given me my Ford 750 Backhoe and my schramm pneumatractor

Somehow I think we're going to be seeing repair videos coming up.

[Frank S]

Somehow I think we're going to be seeing repair videos coming up.

Only if Steven Spielberg gets bored. For almost everything I do it requires both hands and tripods don't move around on their own.

[WmRMeyers]

Only if Steven Spielberg gets bored. For almost everything I do it requires both hands and tripods don't move around on their own.

Well, there is that, but you don't deny that you plan on fixing it, right? You could get a Go-Pro or similar camera and wear it on your cap...

Probably not worth your effort, though.

Bill

[Frank S]

Well, there is that, but you don't deny that you plan on fixing it, right? You could get a Go-Pro or similar camera and wear it on your cap...

Probably not worth your effort, though.

Bill

A couple months ago I decided it had been sitting out in front of the shop for long enough. say it has been there about 5 years now long before the shop was started.
On of the first things I did after I got my 22,000 lb forklift home was to pick up the excavator and carry it into the shop and put it on blocks, with the busted drive side facing out have easy access. I have repaired the leak in the hydraulic tank and bought a new suction hose for it. Hard to believe an 18" long piece of molded hose could cost $400,00 but that is Kubota for you

[Wildwilly]

Without some protection on that winch it will soon be garbage from rocks beating it, mud caking on it etc.