He was asking for a poor man's lift table, and what's cheaper than a hole?
OK, I guess I left out a step, which I felt anybody with a ruptured disk would already know.
How to dig a hole with a ruptured disk.
Go to store, buy 2 cases of beer.
Gather up the appropriate digging tools (picks, shovels, tnt, whatever)
When ever friends or kids come over, put a cooler over by the proposed hole and start digging.
They'll say what the hell are you doing? you explain, they'll retort you shouldn't be doing that and pitch in.
Maybe they'll say this is too much f'in work and huddle up together and buy you the lift table for you.
Or course a couple of come alongs strung up to the rafters will work too.