3-Pt. Mounted "Manlift"

3-Pt. Mounted "Manlift" FARM HOME Miscellaneous 27-2-26 "It's very stable and works great for a variety of jobs," says Patrick Prom, Eden Prairie, Minn., about his home-built "manlift" for tractor 3-pts. It lets him work from a 4-ft. wide metal basket that's raised or lowered by a hand-operated winch. The basket can be raised up to 15 ft. high. The manlift is designed to fit the Cat. I 3-pt. hitch on Prom's Deere 870 28 hp tractor. The basket is equipped with bearings, mounted inside brackets, that ride along a pair of frame rails spaced as far apart as the 3-pt.'s lower lift arms. The frame rails are made from 2 by 3-in. steel tubing. Rungs made from 1-in. dia. pipe are spaced 2 ft. apart between the rails, forming a ladder. To use the manlift, Prom lowers the 3-pt. until both rails rest on the ground, then gets in the basket and uses the winch to crank it up. "I've used it for putting gutters on my house, trimming trees with a pole trimmer, installing Christmas lights, and many other jobs," says Prom. "It works a lot better than a ladder because I work from a 4 by 2-ft. platform and therefore don't have to move as often. I use the 3-pt.'s top link to adjust the upward angle of the rails. I used the hand-operated winch because I didn't want to buy an electric winch. It takes a while to crank the platform all the way up and down." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Patrick G. Prom, 12661 Pioneer Trail, Eden Prairie, Minn. 55347 (ph 952 944-9266).

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