You might remember that this building was originally built as stables? To get hay in for the horses, the choice was either a jolly long walk round from the ticketing gate, or this handy winch to pick bales up off the street and haul them in through the window.
Whilst the wood repairs were going on, we took the winch off site for a check over. There were a couple of bracket that had rusted away, but otherwise they weren’t in terrible condition.
We had some new brackets made up and welded on, replaced the seized bolts and re-finished the paintwork.
The last issue to negotiate was re-fitting. The scaffold had to come down for the first race weekend of the year so it was over to the good old ladder to access the window.
With the whole assembly weighing in at over 60kgs, the thought of carrying it up the ladder might seem daunting. However, if there’s anything heavy we’d recommend fitting via ladder, it’s a winch. Just stage your assembly in a logical order and the equipment enables it’s own logistics.
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