Thread: Electric Pallet lifter

they had one at a old employers'..used regularly and was never cared for other than battery maintenance...
It was very reliable if batteries were kept topped up ..it had the wet type...not sure what they use these days

If you can see a use for it, i'd say grab it... Crown are a well know brand, and very reliable. We used to have Lansing Bagnall's and they just run forever if the batteries are looked after.

Any ideas as to what's wrong? If it needs new batteries that could get expensive..

Ray

Batteries on these things are usually the only things that go wrong but they are expensive.

Thanks guys.
I have no idea what is wrong with it other than it stopped working a few months ago and it has been in storage since.
It's located at the closed down hospital where our mens shed had been picking up quite a bit of stuff.
The managers don't want us to work on it on the site so it's a take it or leave it basis.
Apparently it comes with some spare batteries and the charger and there is a service history available.

Crown are a good brand and widely used so spares should be readily available. If nothing else it should be good for bits and pieces for other projects.

Even if you can't get it going as Gavin said it could be used for bits and pieces. Plus the batteries and charger would probably bring a few dollars as scrap.
Kryn

One of the guys has organised a "no cost to us" pick up, so we look like picking it and the spare batteries up on Friday

It wont be that hard to get working I suspect. If it has been left dormant for a while then most likely the batteries are shagged.

The client I am working for at the moment has one of these. I was made redundant from the place about 15 years along with many others and the machine has sat in the depths of the building untouched since then. Its still there now!

Originally Posted by Pearo

It wont be that hard to get working I suspect. If it has been left dormant for a while then most likely the batteries are shagged.

The client I am working for at the moment has one of these. I was made redundant from the place about 15 years along with many others and the machine has sat in the depths of the building untouched since then. Its still there now!

I will be very handy for us if e can get it going - we are getting the keys to a brand new new mens shed in about 2 weeks. In the car park about 30m away from one of the roller doors to the new shed we have a 40 ft container full to the roofline of furniture, storage solutions and machinery that will need to over time be installed into the new shed. Our current operating location is about 1.5km away where we have a further ~4 single garages full of stuff.

Well, we booked a tilt tray truck to pick the pallet lifter up this morning at 11 am.

It's the last day for scoring freebies for mens sheds from this old hospital site and we had to get it out of there by early afternoon as the site is being handed over to other contractors and will be cleared before demolition begins.

5 of us got to the site at 9am and made sure the pallet lifter was outside on the truck loading bay by 10. It was the first time I have seen it and i'm not very hopeful and was thinking this is going to be a wasted trip.

While we were waiting for the truck 2 of the mens shed blokes found and dismantled a 3m long x 2m high perforated light angle iron storage racks and we loaded these onto trailer.

Another bloke found about 18m of new very HD aluminium track material so that went on the van roof rack.

Around 11am phone call from the truck says he will be a little late.

This gave us time for more scrounging and someone found 3, 600 x 900 sheets of 1mm SS, that went into the van,

Two of the blokes found 3 x 2 drawer filing cabinets. These are our standard members individual storage lockers for their project work as they fit nicely under benches. These went into a trailer.

Midday came and went still no truck, another call to the driver, traffic is bad - it will now be 1pm.
Meanwhile the security guards and couple of other guys cleaning up the site are hoping for an early friday get away and clearly are peeved that we are still hanging around.

One of our members (Ross) has been particularly good at ferreting out stuff says, "Bob lets take a walk."

Back into one of the large buildings which was a multi roomed store room of some kind separated by chain link fence doors. Broken gyprock, rusty pipes, piles of dusty cardboard boxes, old filing cabinets, old beds, chairs, and junk everywhere, past an old kitchen with rusting stoves and fridges, past a large plant room, and into a room that had been a store for false ams and legs and on the floor half covered in cardboard boxes was this.



Now this thing weighs a fair bit and it was about 100m inside a building away from the loading ramp, and the truck was due any minute and as soon as the truck was loaded we had to leave immediately - no going back ever.

I ran the 250 m over to the main office hoping the site manager would be there to get permission to take it. Fortunately he is walking over to see what is holding us up. I starting to say that we have found a useful machine in the old store and he says, "Yes the press, that was earmarked for someone but as they have not come to pick it up its yours as long as you can get it out".

On the veranda Ross has found a sturdy wheeled trolley but how the heck are we going to get it onto the trolley. Then I remembered that there was a small wheeled gantry crane over by Admin. Run over there and drag the crane back the 250 m into the store. The crane easily picked up the press and we put it on the trolley and wheeled it out to the truck loading bay just as the truck pulled in !

The truck tilted his tray so that it was level with the ramp and we just rolled the trolley onto the ramp. The pallet lifter was dragged on with the winch. The picture above was taken back at home base

The press looks like it has hardly ever been used and even comes with its original HD stand
Suddenly the pallet lifter being a dud didn't matter

I hate you in so many ways Bob,
What a great find, and just in the nick of time.
Well done to you and all the other blokes.

Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

I hate you in so many ways Bob,
What a great find, and just in the nick of time.
Well done to you and all the other blokes.

Phil

Thanks Phil,

The more I think about it the more I wonder what it was doing there. I reckon it was hidden there so no one would find it. Who knows what other treasures are buried around the place.
When I went to pick up the spare batteries for the pallet lifter in the plant room of one of the buildings there was a veritable rabbit warren of rooms - most service rooms that I had not been able to get into before. In these plant rooms there were big compressors with 500 L tanks and 20+Hp motors, bollers and air con chillers, pumps etc. Some of the stuff had been removed, others were in pieces and other still there. Who knows what will happen to all that stuff now.

Originally Posted by BobL

Thanks Phil,

The more I think about it the more I wonder what it was doing there. I reckon it was hidden there so no one would find it. Who knows what other treasures are buried around the place.
When I went to pick up the spare batteries for the pallet lifter in the plant room of one of the buildings there was a veritable rabbit warren of rooms - most service rooms that I had not been able to get into before. In these plant rooms there were big compressors with 500 L tanks and 20+Hp motors, bollers and air con chillers, pumps etc. Some of the stuff had been removed, others were in pieces and other still there. Who knows what will happen to all that stuff now.

Some scrappy is going to have a field day.

A good find indeed.
Do yourself a favour and check on the legalaties of use. Not sure if it will be classified as a walk behind forklift or if the operator will need a licence to perform high risk work.
Be sure not to let the batteries ever run dead flat. If a battery has say a 10,000 charge/discharge cycle life, a total discharge will cost at least 10 of them every time.