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Thanks Shaun. It is exactly the job of swinging big timbers onto the logosol mill bed that I bought it for, so will definitely take your recommendation and persevere with it. Many thanks, Nigel

Thanks for this. Super helfpul. An update though! I have finally released it. What a nightmare bit of kit. Have a great rest of the day. Kind regards, Nigel

Thank you for this, it's really useful and I appreciate the help. I have freed the thing from the item that was presenting the load. I've tried lying it down and standing on the handle to apply the unwinding force, but that's not working. Might try something even heavier later and see if that works. In truth, I can't recall if the spike assembly slides up or down or not. I do recall when I first had it that I could wind stuff back down again, but it seemed to have trouble actually lifiting loads. Winding it to a point of tension under load was always easy, but actually completing the lift seeemed too hard for it, though I do remember now the downward movement to release it. This is probably why I stopped using the thing. Maybe I just assembled it badly..

Oh thanks for this, that's super useful. I was using the lower spike bit to lift something heavy to test if it was working. It was but then appeared stuck in that position. I managed to free it by using another thing to lift the weight even higher, and expected that without the load on it the item would be back to being free but it's just resolutely refusing to move into the closed position. It will extend even further out, it's just returning to the rest position is an issue. Seems mad to have something that's so very hard and requires so much effort to reverse though. Maybe this is why Logosol have discontinued them... Many thanks, Nigel

Hi! I bought this Logosol product a few years ago but didn't get around to using it until recently. If anyone has any experience with it, I would be grateful for some help in its use (the manual isn't at all helpful apart from providing detailed assembly insturctions). So, I can extend it to lift stuff but it then get's stuck and will not disengage. There doesn't appear to be anything obvious which disengages it from the extended position. The instructions indicate not to exceed 500kg, but I would estimate the test load I've put on it to be about 50kg... Anyone got any advice? I'd be super grateful. Cheers, Nigel