[TechAssist] Re: Stairclimber feedback
- From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:44:54 -0400
I thought I was going to be able to use it they way show in the ad, to pick
up TVs from the home. I wouldn't dare use it in a customers house. If it
ever got away from me on a stairway, which it could easily do, not only
would I lose the TV but it would wipe out half his house on it's way down,
and out through the wall.
Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: <tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Stairclimber feedback
> Jim- I have been doing the exact thing as you. I had heavy shelves,
> work benches, and roll around carts (2'X4')with big caster wheels
> built out of half inch plywood (some double thickness) all same
> height.I can slid a TV from cart to bench to holding shelf,and my
> hydraulic cart to pump them up, and to the floor as needed. Most of my
> 30 yrs were alone with a big set on the floor,needing it up. I got the
> stairclimber video,and looked nice but the price!
> Nope.
>
> Phil Bader, Pres.
> Jan Phyl TV Inc
> Winter Haven, Fl
> (863) 299-8821
> estab. 1976
> personal email: pbader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Myers <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:21 pm
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Stairclimber feedback
>
>> I got around that problem in the shop by building shelves with a
>> large
>> enough surface to hold projo's and large direct view sets the same
>> height as my work surface and use a hydrolic table cart to move
>> sets
>> back an forth, also use it to load and unload from/to trucks and
>> vans.
>> No help in the home though. That stairclimer looks like a giant
>> boat
>> anchor to me, and cost more than the boat.
>>
>> The Old Master Technician
>> ********************************
>> Since 1972 *
>> Jim Myers *
>> Telrad Electronics *
>> Fort Wayne Indiana *
>> ********************************
>>
>>
>> Hoyt's TV wrote:
>> > I have one, David.
>> >
>> > It is very heavy, almost like a fork lift. It works well for
>> moving 32" to
>> > 36" TVs around my shop floor and lifting them up to the bench
>> but the stair
>> > climbing part leaves a lot to be desired unless you have another
>> person to
>> > help you. I have two steps from my storage area to the shop
>> floor/door. It
>> > goes up OK as long as I make sure the TV is well balanced on it.
>> It has a
>> > rather narrow wheel base compared to the width of a 36" TV, and
>> when it's on
>> > the climbing wheels that is even narrower. What I find happening
>> is it likes
>> > to tip sideways, and due to the weight of the machine itself
>> plus the weight
>> > of the TV, I can't stop it once it begins to go. If I have
>> someone else on
>> > the other end, we can usually save it. I would not feel at all
>> comfortable
>> > using it in front of a customer, in their house. Certainly not
>> coming down a
>> > flight of stairs.
>> >
>> > Going down is tricky because you have to guesstimate where the
>> climbing
>> > wheels are going to contact the top of the step you are on, to
>> try to catch
>> > it near the edge to lower it down. Since they are on the inside
>> of their
>> > rotation, you can't see them. Like trying to guess where
>> something is on the
>> > underside of a conveyor belt. If you miss, you are headed for
>> the bottom on
>> > skis. If you are too far back it won't clear the step. There is
>> nothing but
>> > your feet and arms and muscle power to try to hold it while
>> lining the
>> > wheels up properly with the edge of the step, and it definitely
>> outweighs
>> > you.
>> >
>> > I find myself lifting the TV to the height of my shop floor and
>> sliding it
>> > into the shop, then bringing the lift into the shop and putting
>> the TV back
>> > on it to take it to the bench.
>> >
>> > Grossly overrated as far as I'm concerned but I haven't found
>> anything else
>> > that will do the job either.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Russ Hoyt
>> > Hoyt's TV
>> > Exeter, NH
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Robinson Electronics" <RobinsonElectronics@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:02 PM
>> > Subject: [TechAssist] Stairclimber feedback
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>Thinking about ordering a Stairclimber Forklift for the shop.
>> Just
>> >>wondering if anyone has used them, how reliable and helpful they
>> are?>>Thanks. David.
>> >>Robinson Electronics
>> >>1075 Sweeten Creek Road #51
>> >>Asheville, NC 28803-1757
>> >>Ph./Fax. 828 274-3787
>> >>Toll Free. 1-888 ROBELECT
>> >>www.robinsonelectronics.com
>> >>www.robelect.com
>> >>Mailto: RobinsonElectronics@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>
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