Re: Shop Crane Revisited

"Snag"  wrote in message news:vk8144$f4q8$1@dont-email.me...
On 12/21/2024 6:41 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

Hmmmm....  I wonder if I 'll get lucky and stumble across a big piece of thick wall steel tube I can use to make a jib crane over by the mills and lathe in the back of the shop.
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   Depending on the load capacity needed ... I built 2 swiveling jib
cranes with a portable base* for handling firewood . My first out of 2x2
thin wall square tube and I've handled up to about 400 lbs with it using
a hand crank . Then I got some thick wall and built another with a 2500
Lb electric winch mounted on it . *I also built a pivot mount in the
front corner of my 5z8 utility trailer . The light unit with the hand
crank stays on the portable base , been useful for tasks like hanging a
truck door out of my way while I replace hinge pins . The other stays on
the trailer for handling firewood rounds and dragging logs out of a
tangle .
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Snag
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These are easy to modify for other uses:
https://www.harborfreight.com/12-ton-capacity-pickup-truck-bed-crane-60732.html?
I made a pipe extension to temporarily raise it for tall loads and added a boat trailer winch on top and a built-in pulley on the end for its cable.
My trailer is too light when empty to support a load off the side, I can flip it over to change a tire. A pulley on a tripod and my tractor winch can pull a log out of a tangle with its end raised to not drag, close enough to the trailer to saw it to lengths. The jib crane on the truck, like your rig, was better when I could drive the truck to the logging site. After cutting the dead trees near dirt roads I had to continue with the narrower garden tractor and 3' x 8' trailer. The Native American property owner let me cut only dead or blown-down trees, and I worked inward from the back to leave them the closer and easier ones. .