Cheap lift

[Wayne0 1,598]

Snagged this off CL for an upcoming motor swap in my WorkHorse. $40. Couldn't pass it up for that price!

 

[ri702bill 12,666]

Ah, yes - the "Chubby Boy" patient lift used in Medical Facilities. Aperfect unit for two Twenties!

[Bill D 3,042]

28 minutes ago, Wayne0 said:

Snagged this off CL for an upcoming motor swap in my WorkHorse. $40. Couldn't pass it up for that price!

 

I have one of those.  Works great.  What are you swapping into your Work Horse?

[Ed Kennell 46,779]

Medical Equipment is always for sale at the local auction for cheap.    Most of it is bought thru Medicare and when the patient no longer needs it, it is sold at the auction for a few $s.

I have bought wheel chairs, knee scooters, walkers, canes, crutches, shower seats, toilet risers, electric lift recliner chairs, etc.   Mrs K has used most of it for back and foot fusion surgery and her knees are now on the schedule this fall.      When needed, family and friends know where they can get it.  The Knee scooter is loaned out quite a bit.

[Wayne0 1,598]

1 hour ago, Bill D said:

I have one of those.  Works great.  What are you swapping into your Work Horse?

You put me on to a Briggs boxer in CT. I'm visiting my son in Monson, Ma at the end of the month and it's an hour and change from there.

BTW, thanks for that!

[ebinmaine 80,009]

2 hours ago, Wayne0 said:

Snagged this off CL for an upcoming motor swap in my WorkHorse. $40. Couldn't pass it up for that price!

 

 

 

 

 

Nice find! 

[stevasaurus 23,780]

It's amazing how much medical equipment we acquire as we get older!!!  I seem to be amassing a cane colection...including a Diamond Willow from the Upper Penninsula in Michigan.  

[953 nut 68,024]

16 minutes ago, stevasaurus said:

I seem to be amassing a cane colection

When my brother passed away he had a dozen or more canes, unfortunately they were all fixed length and he was about six inches shorter than me.

Our church has a medical equipment loan ministry and we collect all kinds of usable equipment and loan it to anyone in the community that needs it. They are under no obligation to return it as long as they need it and there is no charge. Every item is sterilized and wrapped when returned, we have a dishwasher type appliance that will hold a wheel chair. Hospital beds and power wheel chairs have to be cleaned by hand.

We have fostered loan ministries in other communities and give them any excess equipment we have accumulated.

[Bill D 3,042]

15 hours ago, Wayne0 said:

You put me on to a Briggs boxer in CT. I'm visiting my son in Monson, Ma at the end of the month and it's an hour and change from there.

BTW, thanks for that!

Your welcome!   Is this the engine you're picking up?  If so you'll need an vacuum impulse pump to make it work, or swap the carb from your old engine. For some reason the engines from Craftsman tractors don't have the carb with the built in fuel pump.  

 

The charging stator will also need to be changed as well.  I personally like to upgrade to the higher amp charging system with the external regulator.

[squonk 47,620]

We couldn't give away used medical equipment at the hospital. There was some kind of law involving non profits and how things were purchased. Everything had to be scrapped. Same sort of thing when I worked at the school districts. Surplus equipment had to go through certain hoops and then auctioned off. We needed a printer for our office. There were pallets of them in the warehouse waiting to be auctioned off. We could not get one

[953 nut 68,024]

4 minutes ago, squonk said:

Same sort of thing when I worked at the school districts

12 minutes ago, squonk said:

We could not get one

 

Our school custodian also had a pig farm, each day he would load all of the refuse from the kitchen and lunch room in his small dump truck and take it home to the pigs. A state (NY) auditor took exception to that policy and said it had to go out for bids, an employee using their own vehicle in this manner was unacceptable. My mother convinced the custodian to obtain a business license and bid on the refuse removal contract. He was the low bidder so now he was getting free food for the pigs and being paid for it.         

[SylvanLakeWH 31,951]

I see perfectly good child car seats and cribs in the trash all the time... 

 

As @squonk notes above, there are laws as well as reaction to lawsuits that results in millions of perfectly good car seats, strollers, cribs etc. from being donated to folks who could certainly benefit... straight to the landfill...

 

My Dad was involved in a ministry that refurbished cribs and donated them to single moms in need... they were better than new. Safer, sturdier... that ministry ended when someone sued another charity, who was providing cribs, unchecked, and someone was injured... typical overreaction from lawyers and the ministry was shut down. No one would take them anymore... 

[Wayne0 1,598]

27 minutes ago, Bill D said:

Your welcome!   Is this the engine you're picking up?  If so you'll need an vacuum impulse pump to make it work, or swap the carb from your old engine. For some reason the engines from Craftsman tractors don't have the carb with the built in fuel pump.  

 

The charging stator will also need to be changed as well.  I personally like to upgrade to the higher amp charging system with the external regulator.

That's the one. I have an electric pump or could swap the carb.

[SylvanLakeWH 31,951]

8 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

Our school custodian also had a pig farm, each day he would load all of the refuse from the kitchen and lunch room in his small dump truck and take it home to the pigs. A state (NY) auditor took exception to that policy and said it had to go out for bids, an employee using their own vehicle in this manner was unacceptable. My mother convinced the custodian to obtain a business license and bid on the refuse removal contract. He was the low bidder so now he was getting free food for the pigs and being paid for it.         

Pathetic example of how stupid we are as a society... excellent resourcefulness on the part of the janitor is met with bureaucratic bs... and taxpayers end up paying more for the same services...

 

Great for the farmer, but not for taxpayers...

[Bill D 3,042]

2 minutes ago, Wayne0 said:

That's the one. I have an electric pump or could swap the carb.

You might be better off swapping the carb.  The older carb is fully adjustable.  If the carb on that engine is the same as the one I have, then it has a fixed main jet.

 

[Bill D 3,042]

There is also another engine on Marketplace in Cromwell CT if that deal falls thru.   I also have one I can sell if your near my area and want a spare.

[rjg854 13,264]

1 hour ago, 953 nut said:

He was the low bidder so now he was getting free food for the pigs and being paid for it.         

just amazing  

[Ed Kennell 46,779]

1 hour ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Pathetic example of how stupid we are as a society... excellent resourcefulness on the part of the janitor is met with bureaucratic bs... and taxpayers end up paying more for the same services...

 

Great for the farmer, but not for taxpayers...

And the guvment s save us again.

[squonk 47,620]

2 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Our school custodian also had a pig farm, each day he would load all of the refuse from the kitchen and lunch room in his small dump truck and take it home to the pigs. A state (NY) auditor took exception to that policy and said it had to go out for bids, an employee using their own vehicle in this manner was unacceptable. My mother convinced the custodian to obtain a business license and bid on the refuse removal contract. He was the low bidder so now he was getting free food for the pigs and being paid for it.         

Good old state bids. Everything we got was low bidder. The same crappy company was always the low bidder for air filters. We would order filters and not see them for months or sometimes not at all. Schools have many extra bldgs with an odd ball furnace here or there. I needed 1 filter for a unit in an old house they converted to offices. A 2$ filter I picked up at a local supply house to get the job done. I got yelled at because I was supposed to buy it from the bidder.