I'm pretty sure I could swing it back up
Yeah, I probably could too, depending on how high the tire was mounted and what size tire it was.
But there is a big difference between being able to do something, and wanting to do something.
A friend of mine bought a business from a couple of guys who were wanted to get out.
It mostly sold concrete products. Birdbaths, fountains, things like that.
The bowl on some of those fountains might weigh better than 300#.
One of the reasons they gave for wanting to get out, was the long term wear and tear on joints from lifting the concrete up and down all day.
They had an electric golf cart with a kinda flatbed area behind the seats. They would drive out to the fountain, lift it up into the cart, drive it to the customer's truck and lift it in.
My friend is a lot slighter than they are, plus he only had his wife to help.
We were sitting around, they asked how he was going to be able to handle the weight.
I told them it was simple. You just have to be smarter than the concrete.
He bought a small trailer kit from Northern, plus their crank-up hydraulic boom.
I beefed up the trailer, mounted the boom after changing the regular boat trailer style winch for a brake winch.
Used my net tying skills to make a wraparound cradle for the bowls, and he was in business.
He hooks the trailer behind the golf cart. Drives to the bowl. Drops a load bearing foot from the boom.
Hooks to the bowl and places it in the trailer.
Then drives to the truck, lifts the bowl with the boom up into the truck.
No problem.
He wife can handle the heaviest load they have by herself.
The only problem, is that she does not appreciate the brake winch. She has never used a regular winch, so she does not know its not usual to raise a load by turning it one way, lower the load by turning it the other, and have it lock in place anytime she lets go of the handle.
So, its easy to lift it up when you are loading the truck first thing in the morning on the way to the trail, but its another thing to do it after 6 hours of driving up mountains.
