[Andrew Schreiber]

We didn't use a forklift but our feather was driven by steel cable which might be an option for you. Word of warning if it has plastic coating on it that will peel off LONG before the cable fails so you may want to strip it off in the part you use to secure it down. We were useless an entire match due to striping that plastic off and not being able to raise our elevator which covered our shooter.