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Every time I try to lift the sidecar onto stands at home I almost always either hurt myself or damage something and it takes ages. How do people get them onto stands when you're home alone?

Jeff

With difficulty Jeff!

Phone a friend

I converted an old hospital bed with three upstands welded on. It has adjustable height and I can now unload from the coach straight on to it, wheel it into the garage, work on the outfit and then reload into the coach. The outfit does not need to even touch the ground!
Cost the princely sum of £15 from ebay.

I have made an adjustable gantry on wheels with a cheap electric hoist which you can buy on eBay, it will lift in excess of 600kilo's and on one of my other benches i have another hoist and i just pull the s/cars up a pair of very long ramps. all single handed stuff.

Best get yourself down to St Vincent's then Jeff

We use a "scissor" type high lift pallet truck...

Hi Andy, do you have a photo of your bed stand it sounds very effective .

I use a Block & tackle connected to the roof of my garage to lift the rear and once that's in place i lift the front onto the stands.

I went to the gym.............

Dave Mallon wrote:Hi Andy, do you have a photo of your bed stand it sounds very effective .

Fast way is two people lifting and one inserting stands. My slow way was a portable folding 1 Ton engine crane with a air equipped hydraulic cylinder. I would roll two of the wheels up on some 2x4's, roll the crane legs under the sidecar, attach a couple of tie-downs (figuring out where to attach so it goes up and down level is the trickiest part), attach my mid-size compressor, squeeze the trigger to lift, insert stands, lower a bit and disconnect everything. Bought it from a discount farm supply company for around $200 GBP.

Why not use some of these air inflatable jacks, you'd just have to sort out the pressure required for each of the three or four you use. I've not looked these up on the internet to see what the un-inflated hight is, or cost etc.

John

I get someone else to do it

Craig has the right idea