Dave;
Early last year I bought an engine hoist at Costco (Price Club) and I've
been very pleased with it. It is a manual hydraulic hoist and the beam
telescopes to give you longer reach & lift at a reduced load rating or
shorter for a heavier load.
There are casters on the base and it has two removable legs on the base
to give it stability. When everything is stowed it takes up only a
relatively small area in the shop. It was pretty cheap, too.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Szalay
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:55 AM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: engine hoist / cherry picker
At 01:38 PM 3/7/04 -0500, you wrote:
>I am looking for a unit that will fold up for storage and have about
800 to
>1000 lbs capacity. not for engines but for repairing machines in the
shop..
>Any ideas?
>I don't want it to take up floor space when not being used though..
>A long boom with a somewhat reduced weight rating would be a plus as
well
>along with a reasonable price to go with it to boot..
>Dave
>
>*
We looked for something like that for a while, we ended up constructing
a bridge/gantry crane on rollers.
was able to straddle machinetools, used it to work on machines (mills &
lathes)
remove heads or motors off of mills,
and also to load and unload heavy items that needed to be positioned on
work tables
when it was not in use, rolled out of the way, or rolled it between
machines.
took up very little space.
would have been nicer to have a bridge crane that ran the length of the
shop
but cost for that would have been unreal, ( shop ran about 600 foot in
length)
did have two smaller bridgecranes over the injection machines in the
rear of
the shop.
we did also have a light duty post crane like they mount on pickup
truck beds,
had it on a roll around base, but had to scrap that, too many folks
ignored
the load restrictions and ended up tipping it over.. ( stupidity rules )
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