From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 12/21/2024 5:35 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > 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.  ;^)   
   >   
      
   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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