My friend Scott, a professional photographer, was hanging around the house for a couple of days a month ago. He asked me to take some photos of him and his wife, and I agreed. That was so much fun.
At first I wanted to do my own version of a portable lift chair. Except it would be a lot harder. I mean, the whole point of a portable lift chair is that it’s basically a regular chair. The more you lift, the more weight you must lift off the floor. The more weight you lift off the floor, the more your body weight must be supported by your legs and arms.
So I thought, I’ll make my own. I’ll build a metal box that is a little bit bigger than a regular chair, but the height doesn’t have to be that much. I’ll also build a system of pulleys attached to chains and ropes that will pull the box up. I’ll also make a pulley that will be able to pull the box onto the bed.
The problem is that making a pulley that can pull the box up is a bit more difficult than it looks, so I decided to just use a regular chair. This leaves us with a pulley that will support a box. The problem is the box will be too heavy to pull up, so we’ll have to find a way to lift the box up or else we’ll just keep our hands above our heads. Either way, we’ll have a problem.