for Jack Keller's Wine Blog. Search down for March 17th, 2005. There he discusses the Carboy Lifter Martin Benke invented for Jack. There are pictures and the pictures are accurate. I can say this because I purchased one. I have two slugs of plaster in my back holding up two compressed vertebrae and am still recovering from shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum. I paid Martin $230 for it and I wouldn't go without it for one day. It is an awesome device and is a steel at the price!
Martin is not in mbutt production. I ordered mine in February and Martin says I have #7.
I have found only one problem using it. It's legs must be able to slide under whatever surface onto which you want to load the carboy. Otherwise you have to move the carboy from the lifter to the surface. This means I need to raise my fermentation fridge off the floor.
As Jack notes in his blog, Martin Benke can be reached at L & M General Store, 7800 FM 471 South, Castroville, Texas 78009, (210) 854-2178 or at home at (830) 538-6492. And I add that
Another rest periodEvery so often on here, I just get to a state where I feel the need to refrain from visiting very often and...
An extremely happy customer,
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