I always do things on my own, its heavy but I can do it, I can't rely on my mates to come up at short notice to give me a hand to do things, so I don't ask, I just do it, it can be a bit hard lifting the whole lot up on the bench but the lift table help to get it closer to the top of the bench, but its a lot easier getting it off the bench to the frame, all down hill that way.
I always go out of my way to help the mates even at short notice but it don't seem to work for me, always got to wait when it suite them, one of the reasons I no longer ask, but always get the "why didn't you give me a call", but the funny thing they always seem to know when my beer fridge is full.
Not sure about the age but I am 63 young now, but then the motor/GB/Primary/engine plates aren't as heavy as lifting a Shovel Head motor up onto my bench or lifting it down to put it in the frame (a project build I was doing for my wife's uncle, 79 Super Glide) now that was a heavy motor, had to have a hand for that one.
My whole Norton is a light weight, the last rebuild I did on it, I built it on a solid work table on casters before I had my lift table, my mate and myself lifted the whole completed bike up while my wife rolled the table out from under it before putting it on the ground, that was just over 12 years ago, we both were 51 at the time, but it was a quick lift, roll out and down, all done in less than a minute.
Ashley
