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08-17-2013, 02:22 PM
If You have built a Gantry crane show us your pics.
I am getting ready to build one so the pics will follow soon.
As time allows.
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08-18-2013, 08:48 AM
Dave J built a very smart one http://www.metalworkingfun.com/showthread.php?tid=389

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08-18-2013, 09:18 AM
That isn't a gantry crane Dave, but I believe he is building one now (or at least planning one).
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08-18-2013, 05:06 PM
This is a picture of a gantry crane. My brother has one to pull engines out of cars.

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08-18-2013, 05:47 PM
Ed, a constructive guy would also use it to put engines back into cars. But, hey, it's your bro. Rotfl
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08-18-2013, 05:55 PM
(08-18-2013, 05:47 PM)stevec Wrote: Ed, a constructive guy would also use it to put engines back into cars. But, hey, it's your bro. Rotfl

OK wise ass, point taken. Big Grin

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08-18-2013, 05:59 PM
He might work in a wrecking yard only pulling engines ? LOL

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08-18-2013, 06:01 PM
I have one here but it's rough, a mate made it to lift a dual cab off a 4wd but it works fine lifting one ton.

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08-18-2013, 07:21 PM
Not quite a gantry crane but close.
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06-18-2014, 11:27 PM
http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads...post430924

This is the one that I have been sort of designing one around.

The only hitch so far is that my driveway/parking lot is sloped about 3 feet over its length, so gravity tends to have an impct on anything that I attempt to do in the lifting aspect.

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