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Boom Lift reach
I have a 40' telescoping manlift (straight "shooting boom" style). It's 2wd self-propelled. I have really no problems driving it around except through 8" deep sticky mud and steep ramps. It has its limitations as far reach from the side as was mentioned earlier about overhangs, etc. I don't recommend it, but we have extended the boom and placed an additional ladder inside the bucket for extra reach. You need to find a lift that has what is called up- and-over reach sometimes called knuckle booms or articulated booms. I gave $2500 for mine and put another $2K into it. Talk about handy! Maaaan I use it for nearly all my lifting duties (it is rated for 500lb. but I've lifted 1700 no problem), and the kids love going up in it! The dog got about 10 feet up and freaked out, so we don't do dat 'nymore!
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I found this one sitting on the side of a guy's garage frozen into the ground about three years ago. He dumped $2500 into it after the guy he bought it from had dumped another $2500 into it. I've made my money back on it though. $650 to help a guy shingle one of Henry Ford's soybean farm barns (they're 50' tall), $3000 to restore the structure on the same barn, $250 from a neighbor for a week so he could trim his trees. I generally get $75 an hour for it with me running it. Around here they rent for about $300 a day plus $250 transporting and no operator.
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yooper: Hey you forgot to mention the handyman's secret weapon: duct tape (reference to The Red Green Show)
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KW: Those strips are designed to last a very long time. You may want to spray some a lot of clear water up there on the strips so that they'll "sacrifice" (by design) a layer of zinc and flood the remaining areas with zinc molecules.
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KW: Those strips are designed to last a very long time. You may want to spray some a lot of clear water up there on the strips so that they'll "sacrifice" (by design) a layer of zinc and flood the remaining areas with zinc molecules.
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