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12-23-2012, 04:42 PM
Its gotten to the point or age, where lifting a 10" rotary table or its 10" chuck, is no longer any joy, so I modified a Harbor Freight pick up bed crane.


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12-23-2012, 04:49 PM
Very nice, and yup, the older we get, we gotta work "Smarter."
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12-23-2012, 06:27 PM
IIIIIIIIIIII! Like it!!!Smiley-signs1076799
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12-23-2012, 06:32 PM
Never gave a thought to putting it on the mill itself. Great idea. Nice job on that one.

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12-23-2012, 08:52 PM (This post was last modified: 12-23-2012, 08:52 PM by Mayhem.)
(12-23-2012, 04:42 PM)the penguin Wrote: Its gotten to the point or age, where lifting a 10" rotary table or its 10" chuck, is no longer any joy, so I modified a Harbor Freight pick up bed crane.

Wait - are you saying there was a time when you considered lifting such items to be fun?

Nice work on the crane. I've seen a few where people have bolted them to the mill. Makes sense and doesn't chew up other valuable space.
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