Home made jib crane for the shop

[Dave J]

Just to add, with the crane loaded at 500kg at the tip, the post will be seeing around 1 ton push and pull at the pivots. In one picture you can see a silver diagonal brace I fitted to the shed and it does not move one bit when loaded.

I did months of research on this before building it, and have done the same for the new bridge crane I am building. The last thing I want to happen is it to fail and fall on someone or myself.

Dave