Thank you everyone for your time and thoughtful replies. Thank you very much Dave for the history lesson.

In the ol' days, a few of us would stand around a project like this and try to plan the best course-of-action. But that could be as few as 3 and as many as 16 (rare whole-shop meeting)

The beauty of this site is that the shop size is 1000's and you have extended your wealth of knowledge and I appreciate it.

So far the vote is 3 (hoist-the-hoist) to 5 (use the hoist)