Nifty Lift/Compact Equipment Store

[pantheraba]

Very good video...cool watching how removing the trees opened up the view of the house so much. That is an impressive machine.

 

[lumberjack]

Thanks

Here's some work from today, getting 12 of the 24 trees down. 30x real time means every 2 seconds is 1 minute.

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[lumberjack]

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[MasterBlaster]

It's so cool how you can drive it!

 

[lumberjack]

I thought I'd bumped this thread a couple days ago. Here's the walk around video of the SD50:

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[lumberjack]

I'm digging the SD64 for my tree work, I wish they made an SD85, but alas they don't currently.

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[MasterBlaster]

Is that you operating the lift, Carl?

 

[lumberjack]

In the second two videos, yessir.

 

[lumberjack]

Should be getting another in stock soon! Scott Nelson/Arborworks bought an SD64 ~4 weeks ago. Maybe he'll let us know how he's liking it!

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[sotc]

Just sent me a picture of it!

 

[lumberjack]

I sent him a link to that post!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Carl, I'm curious, I see that niftylift offers a maintenance course. Is that something that an owner user would be advised to take, say especially if there were no service places around. It's only a one day course, and I believe designed for a range of equipment. Could a person that has no or limited background with that kind of device, keep it in safe working order themselves, through a long period of use? Your walk around seems to give the impression of self service to a degree.

 

[lumberjack]

The maintenance training is only offered in England, as far as I know. Surely if someone wanted to have a factory maintenance trainer come to them in the US and train them, that should be doable but perhaps impractical. More knowledge is rarely a bad thing.

Maintaining the lift's usual components (engine, hydraulics, etc) is fairly straight forward to those with normal maintenance skills. Things like changing the oil, hydraulic fluid, filters, battery maintenance, etc.

For regulations, I believe annual inspections/certifications are required to be done by a third party, not by yourself.


What do you mean by "self service?"

 

[squisher]

He wants to know if it comes with a grease gun or not.

And probably if adjusting the levels in the anti-gravity reactor are difficult.

 

[woodworkingboy]

How did you know that I digs me some grease, Squish, and always looking for nipples that I might have missed. "Self service", meaning simply being able to do maintenance yourself with small issues that might be likely to come up over time, including general periodic maintenance.

 

[pantheraba]

Zircs, Jay, zircs...you're gonna get these guys all stirred up now.

 

[squisher]

Grease is the cheapest mechanic you'll never hire.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That is one sweet aerial lift. I love how you can drive it around!

 

[lumberjack]

Yeah my theory is that the average person will do the simple things themselves, so my goal is to empower them with the ability to do so. As a consumer/user I don't like being forced to go to the dealer for every little thing, and I assume the average buyer. If they want me to change their oil, I'm happy to oblige!


There aren't many grease fittings on the lift, only a few on the steering/suspension.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I was thinking to show your vids to some folks. One guy has a whole fleet of cranes, including a 360 ton German brand sitting alongside it's half pint little brother. A NiftyLift is well within his price abilities, the last I heard was that someone in China still owed him two million, since he also buys and sells in addition to crane operation service. His son is the operator that I know best, and he has his own tree service. Annual certification laws are rather stringent here, so assuming that lift that you offer is without a dealer currently in the country, I wonder if an outfit that does crane certifications could do it for the nifty as well?

"Zircs", yes of course, Gary. Thanks for the correction.

 

[lumberjack]

I would think the lift could be certified by a company that certifies cranes/aerial work platforms/buckets, depending on Japan's requirements.


Thanks for thinking about me!



Carl

 

[woodworkingboy]

Thanks, I don't imagine that it would be hard to find out about certification abilities, simply by showing some pics.

 

[sawman]

that thing could make you rich
as long as you keep it busy!!!word

 

[arborworks1]

i apologize for not chiming in on this thread till now. We have been running the lift for a solid month now. Moving around a jobsite is cakewalk now. 5 mph may not sound speedy but when you are cruising thru a highly landscaped yard and resetting on the next tree all by yourself it turns into dollars quickly.
The squirt boom is a great feature on canopy raising jobs, as well as working around other trees on removals.
I'll get some pictures up soon.

 

[sotc]

Bout time ya big snob :p