Re: Bike tech idea for Jeff

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:28:18 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

For Jeff: I keep thinking about his tall stairway and firewood lugging.
Here's an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0OwuhFMf_o

Nice idea.  I like it.  However, I don't think it will work for my
situation.  Offhand, the problems I see are:

- I don't have a place where I could build a terminal or landing zone
in a tree that has easy access to the house.  I would need to go up
between two trees and then walk across a bridge of sorts to get to the
house.  It can be done, but it won't be easy.

- I'm rather old to be doing such things.  Climbing the stairs wasn't
much of a problem (and was good exercise) until about 2020, when I
started having medical problems and had to stop such exercises.
Unfortunately, I haven't recovered my former strength.  Just riding a
bicycle is a problem for me.  A counter balance pulley system will be
a big help, but will need to be adjusted every time I carry something
heavy up the tree.  Hauling myself and the bicycle up the tree is
possible.  Hauling myself plus 40 lbs or dry firewood (oak) or 60 lbs
of green logs might be difficult.

- If I haul myself plus 60 lbs of green logs up the hill, getting back
down for another load is going to require removing 60 lbs of weight
from the counter balance.  That's about 7.5 gallons of water, which
can be done possibly with a water pump.

- My problem isn't so much getting myself up and down the stairs.  My
problem is with the stuff I usually carry up and down (firewood,
furniture, tools, power equipment, groceries, lumber, generators, etc.
If I take myself and the bicycle out of the equation, a pulley or
winch system need only lift the stuff without adding myself and the
bicycle to the burden.  I'm considering something like a small
motorized steep slope "railroad" car.  There are plenty of suitable
designs available which I can steal:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=hillside%20lift&udm=2>

Thanks for the suggestion (which got me thinking about the problem
again).  It will probably be a few years before I need to build
something.  One very useful takeaway is the Dyneema rope:
<https://www.dyneema.com>
I was going to use wire rope but I like the idea of making less noise.

>
You could compete against Tom in the vertical feet climbing contest.

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