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   I figure I need at a minimum a 2 ton shop crane.  Probably a gantry   
   crane would be the most useful.  At over a dollar a pound (minimum) for   
   a commercially made crane and must are just wrong for what I consider   
   ideal I've had a hard time opening my wallet.  I've been more mouth than   
   billfold on this subject I guess.   
      
   Ideally I want one that will just barely fit through a 10x10 ft doorway   
   AND fit around an 8'6" trailer.  A little taller and only being able to   
   bring it in through the 10x12 ft door might do more work, even if it   
   might be slightly less convenient.  Telescoping might be an option   
   (vertically).   
      
   Nobody seems to make one exactly like that. They meet some specs, but   
   not others etc.   
      
   So anyway, since my dad passed I've been managing my parents properties.   
     One is a commercial property (4 good sized lots together) that's had a   
   renter in it since about three years ago when I arranged it while my dad   
   was recovering from having a brain tumor removed.  Looking at their   
   finances It looks like the rental on that was making the difference   
   between living and just surviving for them.  Anyway, since my dad passed   
   I've been managing it again.  The renter called me on Monday and said   
   they were completely out, and let me know where I could pick up all the   
   keys.  Good renters.  I had to remind them rent was past due a few   
   times, but no worse than some renters from when I had rental houses.   
   Anyway I headed out a few days ago to pickup the keys and give the place   
   a once over to see what I want to do with everything.   
      
   There are trucks (one left behind by the renter (with permission)) and a   
   couple of my dad's stored in the back.  There is that 42 Willy's Jeep   
   I've mentioned.  A pretty nice fifth wheel trailer "abandoned" by a   
   previous renter and various assortment of junk, tools, and equipment.   
      
   The renter was a solar installer working on one of the big solar   
   projects out in the desert, and they were mostly using the property to   
   park a fifth wheel for their crew, using one of the buildings to receive   
   shipments, and storing construction equipment inside and outside in the   
   large fenced yard.   It worked out really well, because they got what   
   they needed in a rural area, and my dad didn't have to remove/move all   
   his junk.  He left that for me.  LOL.   
      
   Anyway, out by the back fence I found several fairly large I-beams   
   setting up off the ground on wood beams.  I think I just found my gantry   
   crane.  Now if only I can stumble across some big steel casters out   
   there somewhere I'll be set.  Maybe they are under the old gas pumps   
   over by the south fence.  ;^)   
      
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