- 1. How to build a lifting gantry for a chain fall..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:10:47 -0500
- I just bought an old tractor and am looking at an engine rebuild this spring/summer. I could probably pull it with my cherry picker but I'd feel more confident with the greater safety factor of a gan
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- 2. Re: How to build a lifting gantry for a chain fall..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Kai M. Radicke" <kai@radiohead.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:47:52 -0500
- Wood works fine for occasional use. Last summer I had to unload two TR6 engines, both sharing the same pallet, from my pickup truck. An hour spent erecting a wooden gantry with scrap 2x8 (doubled up
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- 3. Re: How to build a lifting gantry for a chain fall..... (score: 1)
- Author: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:22:13 -0500
- A buddy had one made up of iron pipe. It was basically an A-frame at either side, with a cross piece, and a couple braces connecting the two. (Think swing set.) The A frames threaded into the top pie
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- 4. RE: How to build a lifting gantry for a chain fall..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:53:09 -0800
- Just keep in mind that threading weakens iron pipe considerably. I've broken 1" black iron pipe with less than 100 ftlb applied to a threaded joint. Randall
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- 5. Re: How to build a lifting gantry for a chain fall..... (score: 1)
- Author: Steven Trovato <strovato@optonline.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:30:31 -0500
- I must be missing something here. You want a greater safety factor, and then you want to cobble something together out of scrap wood? I would stick with an engine hoist rated for the load. -Steve
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