07-27-2015, 01:10 PM
(07-26-2015, 06:50 PM)f350ca Wrote: You could go with an overhead crane attached to the ceiling. With the clutter in my shop a gantry crane would be worthless.
I have much the same problem
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I don't have a ceiling in the workshop fixing it inside may not be a good solution for me, as I tend to do the 'heavy stuff' out side (under the car port).
When I built that materials holding rack I could have done with something to help me lift and move it.
Lifting my 3 ton arbor press (130lbs) on and off the table is getting too much for my 'poor old back'
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I have been and looked at these engine cranes to day specifically a 1 ton one quite small but poorly made I wasn't too impressed with the quality.
Then there were 2 models of the 2 ton ones which I thought odd, one is marked "heavy duty" to me 2 tons is 2 tons
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That's only part the story
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What I thought rather than cut my brand spanking new legs I would get some more tubing and if I want to use this engine crane to move heavy stuff like my lathe or mill ....... (not my Sherline ones I can carry them
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That's the plan
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