I've been wanting to make one of these for a few years as I use the pallet stacker (with a wooden pallet) as an aerial work platform for my taller projects. It can be fairly sketchy to work on. The stars finally aligned where I had material in stock, some time available, and I'm moving shops so I'll be doing a lot of high work (lights, wiring etc). I welded castors to the base so it can get rolled around the shop easily. I used an old receiver pin with cotter pin to secure the gate. My welding area is way too small so I had to make this in the wood shop. Tomorrow Il blow everything out the shop to try and remove all grindings etc... I'll probably paint it at some point
Yes, it lifts 1500 lbs 12' high. It has a controller on a long coiled cable so it goes up with you. And a lot less stress, especially as I often have to haul my welder up there
My son and I did something similar to install CCTV cameras on his warehouse. We used the frame from a IBC. I had a load of ply and the container ready to bring back to Brisbane after helping him relocate. So we removed the "bladder" fixed the frame to a pallet and strapped it to the fork tines to do the job.
The box the fork lift came in was reused to pack gear to relocate.
We wanted to use plastic folding crates but trying to arrange the hire of one proved too time consuming.
