Building a new small workshop, so I can spend another 3-4 years tinkering with my old bike, but in air-conditioned comfort. I was thinking about using a hoist and simple table for the bike, to save building a complicated lifting table. I can put a double (ladder type) ridge bar in the roof to handle 200kg load and can make up a simple pulley, or even a cheapo block and tackle.

 

Just wondered if anyone had seen this done before, a bike hoist and did it work, any problems? Also what is the best height for a bike table?

 

I have quite a bit of experience in lifting equipment, so safety won't be an issue, we have been making equipment for lifting horses and cows since '85. 

 ya, come-a-long to beam/log lashed up in trees

no table

no air con.

A proper lifting table is about 20k Baht. I would get one if I had more space (or less bikes).

6 hours ago, OmegaRacer said:

A proper lifting table is about 20k Baht. I would get one if I had more space (or less bikes).

how many?

"we have been making equipment for lifting horses and cows since '85." 

 

So no problem lifting Kawasaki's

 

 

OR

http://eurospares.com/bikestnd.htm

 

NB. The heights for bike stands are for working standing up? I would prefer sitting down on a stool. 

This shed of mine is not that big so a big table would be a problem for me too.

 

I currently have too chairs one with sawn off legs, trouble is I have trouble getting up after 20 minutes. It is not necessarily a disabled workshop, but a half way house.

 

I can't see my arthritis getting much better, hopefully not much worse, so this will give me an opportunity to keep tinkering for some years.

 

The Shadow is a 35 year old Jap bike, so the tinkering will be ongoing and when the faults are all sorted I plan on doing some frame mods, which will be easier with A/C.

http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/diy-motorcycle-lift.701077/

 

http://twtmotorcycleparts.blogspot.com/2012/11/wooden-lift-table.html

You don't need a table if you hang it.

Yes, never thought of that, a wooden table, with screw on legs would work. I could reemploy half of the timber as a bike ramp for my truck.

 

The other one I made was too short and the timber was appropriated as shuttering during the shed build.

 

The hoist would need to work from a single rope, so would still need a table, hard getting a spanner on a swinging/revolving bike. 

On 11/26/2017 at 6:35 AM, canthai55 said:

"we have been making equipment for lifting horses and cows since '85." 

 

So no problem lifting Kawasaki's

And if you practise lifting pigs then Harleys would fit right in.....