00:00well welcome back again and today I'm going to show you an item actually one of my favorites
00:15because I think this is one of the best engineered items that the rental business has as you see all
00:21the pieces are down here this is a drywall lift we're lifting up sheets of drywall half five
00:26eights four by ten four by twelve but because this is so compact and so well engineered it's
00:34easy to transport putting in a vehicle and but also there's a bit to know to put this together
00:39now this is the base it's on wheels wheel around so you push down this little lever in the back
00:47and you'll open up the the base make sure you hear that click you click that base in so it's solid
00:57and it doesn't move or come back in again a bit now the important part here is the mast is to get this
01:07in properly there's a bit of weight to it it takes a bit of a trick hopefully I can grab this but put
01:15your foot on it to steady it and slide this in one piece has to go in on the inside one piece has to
01:24go in on the outside of the mast that's slid in pretty well now make sure that you shake it like
01:30this make sure that's in properly this is the only reason why a sheet of drywall or anything would be
01:36tipping over on you or or all of a sudden get out of position because you don't have this mast in
01:42properly so make sure you take the time and get it in properly from there it's fairly simple
01:48there's a little break here with a little brake shoe and this drum so you take a little bit of weight
01:54off of it a little bit of tension one finger on this red little knob here that's got the brake pad
02:02on it and you can pull this out this arm out you'll see this sliding down here there's a little lock on
02:10there that clicks up and locks in and make sure you keep tension on the cable doesn't have to be really
02:18hard but some tension on the cable otherwise you can have to run the chance of it running off a pulley
02:22or anything it's a series of pulleys inside this thing now you take a little bit of tension off make
02:29sure the cables loose and you pull the safety off up here and that's what keeps these tubes inside
02:37now if you don't have this safety on here and especially when you're taking it apart and you
02:42tip it and it'll all slide out there's a chance that you'll run your cable off a pulley or something so
02:47or get it kinked when you're trying to crank it all back together but from there you can take the your
02:53one finger and you see you can move the mass up and that's what you're going to put the one part on
03:02here that's going to hold actually the drywall so take this part here cross beam the shaft goes
03:12inside the hole there's not too many other places it can go just slide it in it just has to slide in
03:18there this little clip usually you'll leave that on so this doesn't slide up at the initial part
03:25but this can even be down sometimes when you're doing a cathedral ceiling and you're trying to put
03:29sheets up on a bit of an angle so you can loosen this and as you see this tip so i'm going to put that
03:35on for the moment these arms slide right into these v parts make sure you hear them click
03:48and also this other arm
03:53now there you have it together this comes over
03:57like so and then you release that little clip that i was showing you earlier pull that down tip
04:09this down like this now these arms in the end here you can pull the little knob out and you can slide
04:15these out slide them out on either end now the only part you have to do of course is you have to lift
04:22your sheet up either two people but a lot of times a four by eight sheet especially with the lighter drywall
04:27they have out now one person can lift it up onto the drywall lift and you're going to have it in
04:33this position with your sheet of drywall on there so you'll tip it back now you've got your drywall in
04:42this position on top of this lift back over make sure you put your hand on the on the wheel handle first
04:51take some tension off and then you're going to crank your sheet of drywall up to the ceiling
04:58and you can let go of the brake hold it there up in the ceiling drive in a few screws to hold it
05:04there and then you can take some tension off and then lower it down so don't crank it up real tight
05:11don't forget you've still got to get a bit of tension off of this to lower it back down again
05:15but at least that'll hold your sheet of drywall up to the ceiling you can cut pieces use it to put
05:19smaller pieces up as well but the nice thing is you can move it around so give yourself some room on the
05:25floor when you're when you know when you're where you're going to position it so that you can put
05:28it over there easily screw it up drop it down and put on your next sheet and put it up so that saves
05:35all that stuff about trying to use two by fours and t posts and getting up on ladders standing on your
05:41head putting the sheet on your head and lifting it up like the old days this is one of the best tools
05:47to put drywall sheet up to your ceiling it's safe it works quickly and it also allows you to get it
05:54all up in a short period of time now also some ceilings these days are a little higher
06:01so this will do an eight foot ceiling easily but if you start getting it up into some 10 foot ceilings
06:07and higher there's spacers that are available that we have and right here where you put it into this
06:13mast you'll put this in instead and then put the the top beam part right into this and that'll bring
06:19it up a little higher so you can reach a higher ceiling but also remember that your lifting of
06:25the sheet is going to be a little higher as well so not a bad idea to have some help when you start
06:29using the extension and go up higher to the ceiling so take it all apart in the same manner just make
06:35sure again that you when you bring it down you put the safety clip on the shaft so they don't slide out
06:41and lift it apart in reverse and i think you'll find that this is something that you'll be
06:47glad you used when you're doing your drywall so we'll see you for the next project and don't forget to
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