spare wheel lifter
Submitted: Monday, Oct 01, 2012 at 23:31
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J.T.
I met a nice old bloke who needed a way to lift his caravan spare wheel assembly onto the back of his van.
Its an offroad van withhigh clearance and an offroad wheel and tyre so it wieghs a fair bit.
We thought of a small boat winch bolted to a frame that is welded to the rearbumper of the caravan.
Any ideas out there.
Reply By: Member - PJR (NSW) - Thursday, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:46
Thursday, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:46
This thread has prompted me to do something also. Spoke to a bloke yesterday who is making our steel side steps. I can pull a tyre up etc but cannot dead lift it.
The idea is to make up a removable inverted "L" system out of square steel tubing with a pulley that sits above the wheel and is mounted on the back of the wheel carrier.
The "L" consists of two parts, a one foot long piece of 1" x 1" section steel tubing that is bolted or welded to the wheel carrier and the rest of the "L" made from the "next size up" tubing that slips over the 1" section. A single pulley is hung off the top of the "L" and the tyre is lifted with a rope through the pulley. I cannot give pictures as it's not made nor even sketched as yet.
I am gong to get the actual "L" made from two pieces so that it can be taken apart and stored easily.
Put two strategically placed stirrups on the rope and you could "walk" it up by just stepping in the stirrups and pushing down and then the other one. This needs a little more thought. It may need two pulleys. Hmmmm.
Phil
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