Humphries manlift

[@johntracy7795]

As a firefighter, I rode one to the top of the head house on an alfalfa mill fire. It was just on the silos, so no floors in between, just bottom and top, and it wasn't lit in between either. Halfway up and its pitch black. My mouth was so dry by the time I got to the top, you could have struck a match on my tongue.

[@imodern]

Dangerous, yes, but it was a huge improvement over the Humphries Manapult.

[@DesertPunks]

haha

[@ShannonGlenda]

Yeah! The launch was okay, but the landing was rough!

[@MrWolfTickets]

🤣🤣

[@genechronister7085]

Not by much

[@stuartback2594]

I worked in mills all over the country as a Electrical contractor. Used these all the time, easier than taking the stairs all the time. bring them back!!

[@migette1]

Wow!!!! have not seen one of these since childhood days 1950s, my father worked in a flour mill in London and there was 2 of these, he called it a Man Hoist and was told they were used in flour mills. He demonstrated the safety feature by not stepping off at the top floor, a safety switch came on and it stopped The mill has been gone many years, and was owned by Spillers who bought it out as Charles Brown, it was next to the Thames and that site is now a BT office. Both of these firms are out of business not BT who are still there which is in Vauxhall.......Thanks for showing brought back memories........Peter

[@Davett53]

Me too! Saw these in the 50s when I was a boy,..there was a large Coca-cola bottling operation in Cleveland, Ohio where I grew up, they gave tours of the place. We saw men going between floors to reach parts of the equipment that needed constant oiling and adjustments. Back then they still washed the returned bottles, and refilled them.

[@yogibeer9319]

I worked in paper mill in Maryland back in the day and this is how we got to the top to work every day. Hell of a lot better than climbing stairs but when the sign said Get Off Now you’d better do that.

[@crassirus]

This some silent hill ass shit right here.

[@jacobelder2460]

I've rode in a lot of manlifts in old elevators. First time riding the belt, I was scared to death by the squeaks and groans. You get used to it lol. It's like a Rollercoaster ride, except you die if you let go lol.

[@mikehuntsmells4309]

No different then a ladder

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

@@mikehuntsmells4309 than

[@Julio974]

​@@mikehuntsmells4309So, a hybrid between a paternoster elevator and a ladder?

[@MrBROTHERFELDER]

My father used to ride one at General Mills in Buffalo. I’ll take the stairs thank you.

[@larcoal2963]

Used one in the 90's... tough to override your brain and step on.

[@natesuhl4322]

I remember riding these, most have been taken out, but still some in the grain elevators. Kinda freaky when there’s 80ft between floors😳 makes me a little nervous. 160ft belt lifts that slip when you get on them

[@MrKmoconne]

Saw one of these for the fist time in a parking garage that has been open since 1923. All the parking was done by staff and when you picked up your car, you would give them your parking ticket and they would take the manlift up to the floor and bring your car down to you.

[@Sonnywitdamoney]

Me too! It was a parking garage in Philadelphia.

[@MrKmoconne]

@@Sonnywitdamoney There is one in Indianapolis called Indiana Parking Garage, on Market street. No pictures of the manveyor system though.

[@rayorozco5009]

@@Sonnywitdamoney what’s it called

[@lancealston9588]

Just got a job at a garage and they have one of these, I'm so excited to start

[@robertmason8341]

Indiana Garage, Barry Widdock runs/ran the place! I rode that lift many times

[@CaliforniaBoomer]

It's how we got up and down the grain elevators, early '70s.

[@taboosaboo]

This is the craziest most dangerous lift I've ever seen.! Apparently Humphrey was a psycho.

[@MattsMadnessOfficial]

I've rode worse at my old job in terre haute lol thats a nice lift

[@SLAUGHTYBAUDFAUST]

Been about 10 years since I seen one of these things in operation. The few places I do see them they are permently locked out.

[@JohnSmithKillFeds]

There is a pulp and paper mill in Terrace Bay, Ontario. They have 2 still in operation.

[@ShannonGlenda]

I have worked in a magnet wire plant for thirty seven years. We had one when we started. Installed one about three years later. Installed another about ten years ago. Total of three currently in operation. Franklin, Tennessee.

[@ShannonGlenda]

@Untraveling at which magnet wire company do you work?

[@ShannonGlenda]

@Untraveling I work at the one in Franklin, TN. Been there 37 years.

[@Harpertaylor8303]

I rode one yesterday that’s been operating since the 40s. Went up 12 stories. Sketchy af.

[@DoubleAplusJ]

What happens if the platform you stand on fails...or if someone passes out, or slips or has loose clothing that gets trapped in the machinery??? And what about the children? Did no one consider their safety at work?!

[@Harpertaylor8303]

@@DoubleAplusJ it’s in a factory, all moving parts are shielded, no children are ever anywhere near it. Chill out lol

[@DoubleAplusJ]

@@Harpertaylor8303 it was a joke you idiot! At least you edited out the part where you called me a Karen, if you can't read my response to you saying that the thing is sketchy af and recognize that I was making a joke about "children's safety at work" you really should stay away from the internet or you'll end up with some super hurt feelings lol.

[@stephenlancaster2673]

@@DoubleAplusJ What about the cats?

[@caspanda55]

ok Karen

[@pauldorobialski8871]

I was a caretaker of a closed seed processer for 10 years & there was evidence of manlifts in areas of the 2 buildings. I remember a sign on the wall indicating that the next floor was the last & to prepare to Get Off!

[@harlyquin]

wonder if anyone has tried to do a full lap without getting off

[@Advancedtileandgrout]

I had a dream about something like this in some type of machine shop or factory. It freaked me out enough to remember the dream even years later. I didn't know that they were a real thing or even existed in real life. You could not ever pay me enough to get anywhere near one, and I have ridden man lifts offshore from oil platforms to ocean vessels no problem.

[@coshiro1]

This is something you'd see in a Portal game lol

[@greyman8695]

We still have a operational one at my place of work.

[@xSenwar]

First saw one of these in Blighttown, Lordran, during the Age of Fire.

[@ryangladish1212]

Weird, that's where I saw my first.

[@BertieBoi]

Aye siwmae!

[@griffinphilemon5083]

I'm getting trained in the next week to use these at my mill we have two.

[@JohnSmithKillFeds]

Av terrace bay.

[@stephenwiddick4934]

We had one in general foods England but it was shut down after an accident in Germany. Always on it, loved it.

[@ryanhogge8]

A plant that I work in the most (by virtue of it being from the 1960s) has one of these and I've never seen it move. Which is a shame, because I have a deep primal urge to ride it.

[@ryanhogge8]

Update: the corporate chucklefucks came down and freaked out that more than two masked people were being allowed to ride the elevator at the same time. Left a written suggestion to re-open the manlift. It was not taken seriously.

[@sherk3286]

@@ryanhogge8 heavens do you know how many times a day it'd have to be stopped and sanitized?

[@lancealston9588]

@@sherk3286 I ride one in ohio, as a valet driver, we keep it running 24/7. No need to clean and sanitize only yearly services

[@MrWolfTickets]

Awesome! I've only seen one in the opening of the movie The Driver.

[@lait3967]

I would *NOT* trust that sketchy ass lift to go down! Bout to have my fat ass falling a couple stories to my doom 😂

[@cameron20020]

**stares in WHS committee**

[@jussivalter]

Very safe in every possible ways!

[@emo19761976]

I rode one of those for a while when I worked at Malteurope in Winnipeg Manitoba

[@willbill7250]

Co-op Rice mill in Sacramento has these

[@deltyree55]

Just seen one of these in Reno Nevada at the silver legacy parking garage. I was like WTF is that!

[@caylebsrandomvideos3749]

I call that a vertical escalator.

[@ixsilentghost]

If you fall from the top youd definitely break a toe

[@dylanhoyt4825]

Just used one of these for the first time today and man is it sketchy

[@tomwilson3969]

I didn’t think places still had these operational. I have seen a couple in abandoned places and really old buildings but they have all been completely locked out for safety reasons. How did you get the chance to ride one?

[@nizzlebiatch]

@@tomwilson3969 There are a few left in feed plants for major chicken manufacturers. I cant say the locations unfortunately. All will be replaced within the year though.

[@karinmandigo4740]

I had to ride one in a parking garage a few years ago. Was working with hotel security and had to write an incident report on a car being damaged. Absolute worst fucking experience when you already are afraid of heights.

[@CapablePimento]

Does the name of this place rhyme with GSL by chance?

[@wakekrawler]

No, this one was in eastern Ontario, and since ripped out

[@CapablePimento]

I rode one in Utah as recently as 7 years ago but i dont know if its still there.

[@Jgleason23]

Nothing like cobwebs all over the mechanizations of the elevator which could easily kill you

[@yukisohma19]

yeah only in overalls and tankboots are you joking me wtf is this monstrosity, it looks like a silent hill contraption

[@RonHamill818]

I was with a friend parking my car in a parking garage in San Francisco. After we parked we couldn't find the stairs but there was one of these operating near the wall. We walked over looked at it working, looked at each other and said what the hell. He jumped on and I took the next one about 2 or three stories to the ground floor. On the way back to the car we took the lift belt back up. Later we told someone about it and they said it was forbidden for parking customers to use them. It was just for the valet parking people. Oh well. It was really fun though.

[@grummbe]

It has been there since at least 1970 but probably dates to when the building opened in 1929. From the ages of 5 to 10 I desperately wanted to ride that, now I don't think I would.

[@SejLifts]

Wow!

[@ronaldpiper4812]

Pabst griss mill Peoria,il Doing rounds. Wow

[@cmerton]

grist. duh.

[@kevinfathman4205]

Used them in power plants in Ohio what fun

[@kingslayers2953]

Big Gain isn’t it? 😂

[@ComradeTiki]

My last sighting of one was at a coal plant, c.a. 2000

[@Slowrollinlow1962]

GO work at AEP in the power house

[@CANNOTDIEPOOR]

Going down looks so sketch