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   RickL | Mar 17, 2008 09:23pm | #1

   Post at Breaktime. Can't recall the last time I used drywall on furniture and if I did I'm pretty sure I did't need a lift.

   http://www.drywallhoists.com/index/Drywall_Panel_Lift.ASP

   Most folks who are looking for plans to make  a tool typically spend at least twice the cost of buying that tool.

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   hammer1 | Mar 17, 2008 10:44pm | #2

   It might be cheaper to buy or rent one.

   http://www.drywallhoists.com/index/Drywall_Panel_Lift.ASP

   Beat it to fit / Paint it to match

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   sapwood | Mar 18, 2008 12:20am | #3

   Set up a candle-light dinner with your honey. Have the bench cleared off and comfy looking. If you're lucky, in nine months you'll take delivery of a self contained, ergonomic, organic, "looks just like dad" lifting device. Feed it well and begin training immediately. In eighteen or so years, with luck, you can tell it where you need the next sheet.

   Bonus: You get a tax credit for this.

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   user-54856 | Mar 18, 2008 03:22am | #4

   Didn't work. The kid is now 32 and too busy to hang his own drywall. Guess who got volunteered.

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   mike4244 | Mar 18, 2008 04:41am | #5

   Rent a telepro lift. Even if you could weld  and had the materials on hand it isn't worth it. I bought a northern drywall lift, $200.00 or so. I needed it for one last job before I retired.This was a piece of crap, sold it soon as the job was done for $100.00. With the real drywall lift (Telepro) you can easily do ceilings without worrying if the lift will collapse.

   Do yourself a favor,hire help or rent a Telepro lift.

   mike

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   USANigel | Mar 18, 2008 11:36pm | #6

   If your going to work alone and only need it for this job rent is the way to go.

   I now use the "third hand" props to hold up the sheet when I have help, worth the $40ish to the point I now have 4 of them.

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=tools&field-keywords=3rd%20hand&results-process=default&dispatch=search/ref=pd_sl_aw_tops-1_tools_3691935_1&results-process=default