Lifting gizmo...what are they called?

Thanks mate. I will try to log onto the site for the upcoming camping show in Adelaide next month.
I'm not too good with knots I'm afraid.......
Cheers Ken
Roachie

Good idea champ......will get them onto it......hahaha

Sorry, don't follow.
Do you use a skyhook to put the top pully on to lift the tyre?

Nah mate....check the rig pic.....I have a box on the back. I will have a couple of 2" square box sections bolted to the top and will slip in a jib with a hook attached

Thanks Kev, good luck with your op too.......

Roachie,

With all your toys for your vehicle have you thought about your chair in front of your computer??

My Occupational Therapist just got Workers Comp to purchase one of these for me

www.bambach.com.au/au/index.htm

I got it on Wednesday and it is the best computer chair since sliced bread. It cost a pretty penny but does wonders for painful backs. Makes me wish I had one years ago

Cheers Kev

I actually bought one of those bloody things in about 1999. Only had for 2 days and sent it back. It made my whole "manhood" totally numb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I was bloody
P!ssed-off, let me tell ya. They weren't happy and couldn't understand why i was upset!!!!!!

LOL

Was that before or after the vascectomy????

I rode horse for years so it is pretty much second nature for me. They told me I'd be saddle sore but I have had no problems.
My 3 year old daughter can't quite decide whether it's a chair or not though

Kev

Thanks Michael,

We'll be going to the show too (at this stage), so I'll have a look then too.

They're calling my proceedure a Microdiscectomy (spelling???)....just to dig out a few loose fragments of disk between L4 and L5, that are having their wicked way with my sciatic (spelling again) nerves etc

I have one of those lifters and could never get it to work. The thickness of the rope affects it.

I had that operation 2 years ago and had a Wallis device.
implanted to keep the disc from being pinned against the Sciatic nerve.
Site Link
Fusion works for a lot of people but was not for me, I had 4 days off work and 3 weeks was back to full duties (self employed motor mechanic)
Best of luck

Thanks Mr Fixit, let me know if you decide to sell your lifter hitch master thingo.
Cheers
Roachie

Thanks Al.......you've given me something to type into Google.......

Here you go Bill:
https:// Site Link

Thank you gentlemen.....looks like an Alaskan site.....hmmm might need to wait till Adelaide show....

Brian ... et al ...

I have some and mine work. I think the trick was to hit the rope with WD40 (or similar) and use gloves to minimise slippage (through your hands). I mainly used mine to hoist a bush shower into the trees, which, while it did not weigh as much as the engines they used to demo the Hitchmaster, still had a bit of weight in it.

The WD40 tip came from an exhibitor at the 4WD show where I bought them. I was discussing the hitches with him and he told me they came in of a morning and hit the rope with WD40. I tried it and it worked for me.

Jack

Brian, let me know if you want to part with yours.......

Bill,
If I've still got it.... (and if I can find it....) it's yours!
I'll see if I can dig it up over the weekend and If I do find it, I'll MM you for an address to send it to.

Cheers

Brian

Thanks anyway Brian, but i just MM'd Steve as he has made a similar offer.
I appreciate your offer...

Cheers mate
Roachie

You're very welcome Bill...

Cheers

Brian

Roachie,

I know I'm late on the scene but you could start a shop if this keeps up.

Somewhere in my garage I have 2 of the things. Only been used once and that was to confuse me. I tie a truckie's hitch 'cause its easier. If I can find em you can have em.

Duncs

Thanks for the offer Duncs, but I think the 2 that Steve is sending me will be enough to confuse the bejeezus outa me.....!!!!!!!! hahahah

Cheers mate

Roachie

Too late for that one mate.......been there, done that....... ouch....hahaha

Hey Oldplodder - those clove hitch piccies look like they've mixed up some right to left with some left to right rope work. If you start with the left photo (top row) and work across the last one in the row looks to me like it can't follow on from the others. Not that I'm a knot expert !
Cheers from the Moose

hehe....someone started again and tied it differently the second time :-)

The strength formed in the clove hitch (by the cross binding nature of the knot) is disbanded by the extra half hitch....It is not any longer a clove hitch. Better off leaving the knot alone, or attaching the extra half hitch around the spar. Another similar knot which works brilliantly in similar situations is the aptly named Constrictor Hitch.

Andrew

The advantage of the clove hitch is that you can tie itwhile the rope is under load.
One turn round, cinch it to hold the load, then around again and under.

Nah, i prefer the round turn and two half hitches for that sorta stuff :-)

Andrew

I'm with Andrew,

The clove hitch was never designed to take any decent strain and in the wrong rope will simply slip.

Pete

Agree with you pajman. Clove hitch and a bit of movement in either end of the rope and it will slip.

The clove hitch and two half hitches are just that, hitches, or temporary ways to tie ropes. Not intended as a more reliable knot. Suppose that is the reason the term hitched is used.
I was always taught that there are hitches (temporary fastenings), bends (for joining ropes) and knots, which are more permanent fastenings.

With the clove hitch, it has always been recommended to me that you take the loose end around again and then tie a half hitch to secure the loose end.

Andrew, yes the constrictor is better, but I always felt harder to tie and undo when the rope is under load.

Like the reef knot. Always intended that you give one loose end a pull backwards and it turns itself into two half hitches, and easier to undo that way. Well, that is what I was shown. It use to be used for reefing sails onto the yards I understand.

Too many years sailing I suppose.

G'day Bill,
Yeh, I used to do that too (put a knot in rope and leverage a load down with it).
I learnt how to do a truckies knot properly in March last year at the AGM of the SAAFWDC at Blanchetown; but I've forgotten again......(sort of know in my mind, but couldn't put it into practice when I needed to).
Cheers mate; might see you in Adeliade at the show in a couple of weeks??
Roachie

Thanks DIO......

Thanks mate, but I've just MM'd Steve who has made a similar offer. Seems there are a lot of people who bought these do-dads and have never used 'em or never been able to work out HOW to use 'em. I only hope I can get 'em to do what I want.... hahahaha

Thanks Brad,
I did learn the truckies hitch last year and I practiced it here at home many times; but when it came time to use it a couple of weeks ago to tie down a load of rubbish for the tip, I couldn't put it into practice!!!! (silly old fart!!!)

Anyway, I have seen the fold down/up type on the back of Telstra trucks and it looks good. Mine sit a bit higher up and being 315/75R16, they are probably too heavy to even swing up.......also, the bottom the the tyre will be about 4 foot off the ground due to the overall lift of the truck.

I also thought of the ramp idea. I was going to make up a hungry board for each side of the tray and make them so they could be joined together into a 2.5m long ramp. But I still don't think that would be long enough. If this lift up idea doesn't work (either with these "gizmos" or maybe a handwinch), I might have to re-investigate the ramp idea.

Cheers mate

Roachie

I think I know why these things work for some people and not for others.
Its to do with the type of rope used.
Ordinary natural fibre rope - no good.
High tech plaited syntetic rope - so so.
Best is the very slippery polysomething rope that comes in 3 strand version.

There is far too much friction around the 'hooks' with rope that's not stiff and slippery.

Klaus