From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 12/21/2024 6:41 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      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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