Re: Bike tech idea for Jeff

On 1/22/2025 10:52 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/22/2025 1:01 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

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The problem with one cable strand or a single loop is that it takes
two people to operate.  One to load firewood at the bottom of the
hill.  Another to unload the firewood at the top of the hill and throw
it into a pile.  That's possible, but I'm trying to avoid solutions
that require and extra person.

 That is a big problem. I've mentioned before doing work in the attic of a friend's house, whose workshop and tools were in the basement-level garage. I realized pretty soon that if I'd forgotten to bring up a 3 pound hammer, I had to lift almost 180 pounds up three stories. Most of that load was me.
 Seems like we should invent a mechanism that would allow you to load the wood into some sort of cable-suspended box, let the motor pull it up, and have the box dump wood onto an upper porch or whatever in response to a remote command. It sounds like an interesting challenge.
 

I was thinking along those lines with a box on rails, line secured to the upper outside edge so it tips at the top. I couldn't think of a simple way to tip the box back up for the return.  Complexity makes all this less attractive.
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