| Author | Message | ||
| Peter River (Whitebus)
Registered Member Username: Whitebus Post Number: 191 Registered: 4-2009 Posted From: 24.234.166.174  Rating: N/A |
I keep reversing my decision on this. it takes up space, but there's nothing more useful when you have to move some furniture, heavy copiers, etc. of course I used it once in the last 2 years. what to do what to do... | ||
| Roger Baughman (Roger)
Registered Member Username: Roger Post Number: 151 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 71.134.211.27  Rating: N/A |
It seems to me if you seldom use it and if you can find another way to get the heavy stuff in and out, removing it will give you much more room, which is always amothing you can use often is the best way to go. I think this is one decission you will have to make. | ||
| David Guglielmetti (Daveg)
Registered Member Username: Daveg Post Number: 130 Registered: 2-2009 Posted From: 63.192.101.2  Rating: N/A |
buy some motorcycles and use the lift to load them...that's what I'd do! | ||
| thomas flocks (Taflocks)
Registered Member Username: Taflocks Post Number: 120 Registered: 9-2009 Posted From: 74.76.246.165 Rating: N/A |
i use mine all the time. | ||
| Gus Causbie (Gusc)
Registered Member Username: Gusc Post Number: 1054 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 206.40.238.126  Rating: N/A |
Someday you may have a real need for it - keep it. | ||
| John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 320 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 24.183.21.246  Rating: N/A |
It has to be your decision Peter, but if you can stand the loss of the room, I would opt to leave it in. You never know what life may have for you down the road. If you don't use it for yourself, maybe you will need to transport someone who would need it. Lot of trouble to take it out and fill the hole too. | ||
| thomas flocks (Taflocks)
Registered Member Username: Taflocks Post Number: 121 Registered: 9-2009 Posted From: 74.76.246.165 Rating: N/A |
i go to the grocery store and just bring the cart right up on the lift so i can unload and put away the groceries. | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 741 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.53.153.91  Rating: N/A |
Tom; how are things since?? Hope that you had a Merry Christmas. Gomer | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 1048 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.209.100.9 Rating: N/A |
Can the loss of inside space be great...or does it all fold up to the side? RCB | ||
| thomas flocks (Taflocks)
Registered Member Username: Taflocks Post Number: 122 Registered: 9-2009 Posted From: 74.76.246.165 Rating: N/A |
takes a foot deep by almost four wide. | ||
| Peter River (Whitebus)
Registered Member Username: Whitebus Post Number: 193 Registered: 4-2009 Posted From: 24.234.175.26 Rating: N/A |
plus almost 5' tall... | ||
| L James Jones Jr (Jamo)
Registered Member Username: Jamo Post Number: 120 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 24.59.114.207  Rating: |
I buy used handicap shuttle buses for my construction business. I always get them with the rear side W/C lift because I love that big side door...42" wide. But, I always remove and sell the lifts. They are very noisy when you're running down the highway...lots of rattles & squeaks. Bungies help some, but the lifts weigh so much that they just get squeaking again. To me, the big door is a plus, without the lift. Mine always seem to sell for $500. My $.02 | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 1050 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.209.180.115 Rating: N/A |
Seems like a pantry or other shelving unit on wheels or a hinge system would give you back a lot of that space. If not in a place satisfactory for a pantry location, perhaps another storage unit of some kind. Would give you another foot of storage space ( out into the center of the coach) and still leave lotsa ' room for an isle. Easy to build and engineer seems to me. Will/way syndrome. FWIW RCB | ||
| Peter River (Whitebus)
Registered Member Username: Whitebus Post Number: 194 Registered: 4-2009 Posted From: 24.234.175.26 Rating: N/A |
RCB, that's actually something I thought about. nice wooden cabinet with a built in TV, that can be hinged to move out of the way when necessary. I might go that route. | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 1051 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.209.180.115 Rating: |
Depending on space needed in the front of the "cabinet" one could open it in the middle...swinging, if you will, to both sides, thereby not using up so much of that space. Lotsa' ways of skinnin' cats. Sounds like you are "thinking"...Thats a good thing!  Best wishes. RCB | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 565 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.234.224  Rating: N/A |
...I going to agree with what old chucky might be thinking, keep it and dual purpose the the space into cabinets or something to mitigate the sacrfice of weight and space. ~If I actually had a wheel chair lift on my bus and we both managed to last long enogh to need such a devise, would I want to hire 250lb HELLGA the ex-steel mill worker from Lenigrad as my personal bus assitant /OR would I dessire petite SWEiTLANA , the 130lb massage therapist from Stockhome to tend to my aged needs ? That is a full 120 lbs GVW capacity/difference , if you care to really think outside the bus or ah ah ah the a box, ehy ! | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 566 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.234.224 Rating: N/A |
&&& if your exceding young and all ready over GVW with your curent configuration, remove it and save it for later, keeping the door available with mimal remove of what ever you put there for uses such as juniorjamo sugest. (don't go off your bus-nut deciding now work that can be postpone untill another phase, might be the point I am trying to make here) |
