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Old 04-05-2023, 09:55 PM   #1198 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post

But i'm really slow on stairs as it is.
Counterweighted lift with a small motor assist.

When my buddy and I were spending every night in a hammock 60ft up a tree, climbing it became a chore, so we found a pulley, attached it to a sturdy limb, used a couple other limbs as load sharing/backup, and gathered approximately our individual weight of boulders into a couple burlap sacks as counterweights.

We had a hook at the base of the tree to attach the lift to, suspending the burlap sack of boulders in the air until the next time one of us needed to go up.

Easily could have killed us, but was a ton of fun.
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