Since I bought a house, almost everything I do involves heavy lifting, sometimes even impossible lifting.
Examples:
- Big bags of leaves that need to be lifted onto a trailer and then lifted and emptied into a container at the recycling center
- Pallet with concrete bags or paving stones that is placed incorrectly and can only be moved bag by bag or stone by stone
- Big bag of macadam left over and now in the way
- Large stones in the ground when digging a flower bed
- Paneling that the lumberyard has packed into a single package weighing 180 kg
My only tricks right now are gloves and a wheelbarrow, maybe a lever occasionally, which is quite limited. Unfortunately, I lack space for a tractor, mini-excavator, etc. I dream of revolutionary solutions - a pallet jack with all-terrain tires for the garden, a hand-operated crane to lift and load big bags, magical lifting belts or something like that...
What are your best tricks?
Examples:
- Big bags of leaves that need to be lifted onto a trailer and then lifted and emptied into a container at the recycling center
- Pallet with concrete bags or paving stones that is placed incorrectly and can only be moved bag by bag or stone by stone
- Big bag of macadam left over and now in the way
- Large stones in the ground when digging a flower bed
- Paneling that the lumberyard has packed into a single package weighing 180 kg
My only tricks right now are gloves and a wheelbarrow, maybe a lever occasionally, which is quite limited. Unfortunately, I lack space for a tractor, mini-excavator, etc. I dream of revolutionary solutions - a pallet jack with all-terrain tires for the garden, a hand-operated crane to lift and load big bags, magical lifting belts or something like that...
What are your best tricks?
A mattikran can be useful for stones and such. A four-legged portable crane that was used in the past when stones and stumps were manually removed.
Big bags are a nuisance if you don't have a tractor. They can't be handled manually. You deal with such things in bulk when working by hand. If you nail together a raised frame of boards that fits on the trailer, you can transport brush and leaves in bulk and load and unload manually without any problems.
Big bags are a nuisance if you don't have a tractor. They can't be handled manually. You deal with such things in bulk when working by hand. If you nail together a raised frame of boards that fits on the trailer, you can transport brush and leaves in bulk and load and unload manually without any problems.
A mattikran (also seems to be called a stubbrytare) seems incredibly smart! Must check if I can get hold of one or maybe build one...
Loading stuff onto a trailer loosely is difficult because I don't own one (there's no good place on the lot to put it). Renting from the gas station down the street costs 199:- for four hours as well. So I usually have to prepare what needs to be taken away in bags...
Loading stuff onto a trailer loosely is difficult because I don't own one (there's no good place on the lot to put it). Renting from the gas station down the street costs 199:- for four hours as well. So I usually have to prepare what needs to be taken away in bags...
Agree with Heimlaga about the large bags. These are totally hopeless to handle by hand. Sometimes I need to remove large bags of wood from the trailer. I usually put a strap between the bag and a tree or other fixed object. Then I drive off with the trailer. But these bags also have loops at the bottom which are good for attaching the strap to. Otherwise, it's just a matter of biting the bullet and manually unloading the bags.
The solution to your problems is to never get them. Sure, it can be tempting to order a pallet of paving stones because you can't be bothered to calculate how much you need, it might be a little cheaper, and it comes with a crane truck. But then you're left with a third of a pallet that's not used. And which you then have to carry around the garden until you finally get around to throwing the stuff away. It's better to buy as much as you can lay within a reasonable time and then buy more when you have time to lay more.
Same with garden waste - why even dispose of it? Arrange a good compost heap on the property so you don't have to drive away leaves, and in a few years, you'll also avoid having to bring home bags of soil.
To move large stones, it's perfect to drill holes in them and insert an expanding bolt and screw an eye bolt onto it. Then it’s easy to lift the stone with an improvised log lifter of some beams and a lever hoist. Or, dig a larger hole next to it and roll the stone into it, so you also don't have to transport it away.
A good thing for bags, etc., is a dolly (aka sack truck and various other names). Much easier to load than a wheelbarrow.
Moving loaded pallets over short distances also works quite well by dragging them on planks with the same lever hoist used to lift the stones.
If you absolutely feel like loading things into large bags, you might as well build a sturdy table, as high as the rental trailer, and place the bags there when loading them. Kind of like a loading dock. Then you can drag them onto the trailer with a lever hoist.
The solution to your problems is to never get them. Sure, it can be tempting to order a pallet of paving stones because you can't be bothered to calculate how much you need, it might be a little cheaper, and it comes with a crane truck. But then you're left with a third of a pallet that's not used. And which you then have to carry around the garden until you finally get around to throwing the stuff away. It's better to buy as much as you can lay within a reasonable time and then buy more when you have time to lay more.
Same with garden waste - why even dispose of it? Arrange a good compost heap on the property so you don't have to drive away leaves, and in a few years, you'll also avoid having to bring home bags of soil.
To move large stones, it's perfect to drill holes in them and insert an expanding bolt and screw an eye bolt onto it. Then it’s easy to lift the stone with an improvised log lifter of some beams and a lever hoist. Or, dig a larger hole next to it and roll the stone into it, so you also don't have to transport it away.
A good thing for bags, etc., is a dolly (aka sack truck and various other names). Much easier to load than a wheelbarrow.
Moving loaded pallets over short distances also works quite well by dragging them on planks with the same lever hoist used to lift the stones.
If you absolutely feel like loading things into large bags, you might as well build a sturdy table, as high as the rental trailer, and place the bags there when loading them. Kind of like a loading dock. Then you can drag them onto the trailer with a lever hoist.
Have stackers, pallet jacks, and lift tables in the garage. Something that has worked for many things is an engine hoist model from Biltema. If you are going to pull a trailer on the lawn, the support wheel must go on a plank, otherwise it will sink.
I came up with this solution myself when I needed to load/drive large stones onto the trailer.
( together with a lifting loop in the stone )
The point of the solution in the video is that "very many" have a trailer and that a lifting arch should be fairly simple to put together, plus a Winch.
I ended up splitting the stones with wedges to a manageable size.
( together with a lifting loop in the stone )
The point of the solution in the video is that "very many" have a trailer and that a lifting arch should be fairly simple to put together, plus a Winch.
I ended up splitting the stones with wedges to a manageable size.
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No idea, I bought mine as a good-to-have thing until I got tired of it just being in the way untouched for 18 months. The Chinese variant is probably around 70-80,000 and a friend bought the Swedish top variant and paid 200,000kr+m.
