sfriedberg
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2010
- Location
- Oregon, USA
I'm about to get an oxy-propane cutting rig, and will be using 200cf or 300cf oxygen cylinders. My local welding gas outfit does exchanges at a dock sized for large trucks. I've been able to man-handle my 125cf or 150cf cylinders up and down from the dock, but as I get older the idea of wrestling cylinders twice that weight does not excite me in any positive way. So I went looking for portable cylinder lifts. Lots of handtrucks, not so many lifts.
Today I ran across Ergo Safe's ECL (ergonomic cylinder lift). I can't tell if this is a brand new company or product, or an existing company that just recently joined the Internet. Anybody have any experience with this cylinder lift, good or bad?
For that matter, anyone have recommendations for portable cylinder lifts that get up to or down from a trailer height dock (call it 48" high)? The Vestil winch-on-a-handtruck doesn't get nearly high enough.
I am mostly concerned with this one dock situation (although there is always the smaller matter of lifting on and off of shop carts), so something that sat on the dock edge, lifted the tank high enough for the center of mass to be above the dock edge, and pivoted the tank from flat on the dock (sticking over the edge) to upright (ready to be lowered to the ground), and was itself portable (I gotta lift it up there) would also solve my problem.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Today I ran across Ergo Safe's ECL (ergonomic cylinder lift). I can't tell if this is a brand new company or product, or an existing company that just recently joined the Internet. Anybody have any experience with this cylinder lift, good or bad?
For that matter, anyone have recommendations for portable cylinder lifts that get up to or down from a trailer height dock (call it 48" high)? The Vestil winch-on-a-handtruck doesn't get nearly high enough.
I am mostly concerned with this one dock situation (although there is always the smaller matter of lifting on and off of shop carts), so something that sat on the dock edge, lifted the tank high enough for the center of mass to be above the dock edge, and pivoted the tank from flat on the dock (sticking over the edge) to upright (ready to be lowered to the ground), and was itself portable (I gotta lift it up there) would also solve my problem.
Thanks in advance for any replies.