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    Thought I would post a few pictures of picking up the crane a few years ago. I brought it on Ebay for $10 from a company ib Brisbane. They were re purposing their shed as a storage for containers and this crane had to go. They tried to send the crane to scrap but the scrapie wanted $4000 just to take it away. Main issue was that it was 18m long and needed to be cut up just to fit on a truck to move it.


    104.jpg Loaded with plenty oxy/tryes and fuel for the 1000kms to Brisbane. My good friend Stuart came with me to lend a hand. Any excuse for a road trip!!

    105.jpg At this stage we were both going ..... this is a bit bigger than we thought.

    107.jpg The wheel housing had to be removed ans it is too wide to fit on the truck.

    108.jpg then the main beam was cut in two.
    115.jpg And then the pieces were loaded. Whole process took 4 days door to door and home without any issues.


    The crane has a 6 tonne winch on it but its built like a brick s...house and could certainly cope with more. We are shortening it from 18m to 11m to fit in the new shed. That process will be interesting but I'll document that as we go.

    Mark

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    Hello Mark,

    Can I express my shed envy !

    I can only dream about having such a beautiful space to house my very tiny, by comparison workshop. Fantastic work, more power to your elbow. Watching with great interest.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaronJ View Post
    Hello Mark,

    Can I express my shed envy !

    I can only dream about having such a beautiful space to house my very tiny, by comparison workshop. Fantastic work, more power to your elbow. Watching with great interest.
    You and all the rest of us as well John

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    I'm sure you're already all over it Mark, but I happened to be in the maintenance workshop at work today and noticed there was a splice plate on the bottom side of the crane rail.
    Each section of rail is made up of a couple of pieces with this welded joint. The rails are then joined with bolted splice plates at the columns.

    Took a photo in case it was of any interest.



    Steve.

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    Notice the shape of the plate in Steve's photo.

    Theres no corners, just radiused edges - no stress raisers.

    Same sort of plates found on high tensile trailer chassis'.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by OxxAndBert View Post
    I happened to be in the maintenance workshop at work today and noticed there was a splice plate on the bottom side of the crane rail.
    Each section of rail is made up of a couple of pieces with this welded joint. The rails are then joined with bolted splice plates at the columns.

    Steve.
    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for the picture. Luckily all my crane beams join at the knee where they are bolted together. Those welded plates are definitely the way to go if needed. As has been said no stress points.

    Mark

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    The shed continues to take shape.

    IMG_1752 (1).jpg Because where I live is bloody hot for 4-5 months of the year I wanted to insulate the shed to make it easier to work in the summer. To that end I brought some compressed polyurethrane panels from an old cool room that RayG put me onto. They are 65mm thick and various sizes. Unfortunately they all need to be cut to size and painted, so a lot of work. I hope they are worth it. They will go in the roof and maybe the walls as well.

    IMG_1755 (1).jpg Here they are starting to go up. Unfortunately it is slow going as you can only put up one layer of panels then sislation then the roof sheeting. So its up/down /up /down all day

    IMG_1758.jpg There will be 240 panels in the roof when finished

    IMG_2011.jpg Now the shed structure is in place I can grout under the base plates. There is a 10mm gap between the cement and the plate. I use the angle iron with silastic under them to hold in the grout till it hardens. Seems to work well

    IMG_2012.jpg IMG_2017.jpg Starting to look like a shed now. The gap at the end is where the support for the wire that runs along the roof is that I hook onto for safety when I am up on the roof. When that comes down it will be filled with clear polycarbonate sheet to form a skylight to help let some light into the shed.

    The end panel roof has been left off as this is where the crane will be lowered onto the rails.

    Building has stopped for the summer now. It will give me time to work on the crane. I will bring it over to the shed so I can prepare it for welding. Just need to get the SIP jig borer off the truck first but more of that later.

    Cheers for now

    Mark

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    Wow Mark it's really starting too look like a workshop now. You've definitely been busy. I will have to come visit when you've got all the machines installed, I was almost thinking of visiting last week I was only 3 hours away I Dubbo working at an abattoir.
    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

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    Hello Mark, Guys,

    That stuff that you have used for the roof insulation looks like the same stuff I've used to line the ceiling of my shed. If so it is very effective in keeping the heat out in summer and the heat in in winter. So much so that in my small space my body heat plus machine motor heat can raise the temperature by several degrees.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Mark, I can highly recommend using the pearl metallic style polycarbonate rather than clear. It lets through a lot of light but blocks most of the heat that would transfer through clear.

    Steve

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    I ordered opaque polycarbonate for my shed roof and got supplied clear so used it anyway and the clear is horrible. I had to cover it with shade cloth.
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    Thanks for that guys. Will look into the opaque polycarbonate. The window is on the southern wall so no direct sunlight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by welder View Post
    Wow Mark it's really starting too look like a workshop now. You've definitely been busy. I will have to come visit when you've got all the machines installed, I was almost thinking of visiting last week I was only 3 hours away I Dubbo working at an abattoir.
    Hi Andre
    Do you come up this way often. If you you are welcome to drop in. Send me a PM and we can sort out directions

    Mark

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    I just want to ask about the grout you used as I'm installing my jib crane and the floor is not level near the edge because it risers up slightly to the brickwork from whoever conceteted it, so I need a grout base this time around. I was spoilt with my last shed being perfectly level.

    Did you use structural of construction grout as they call it? It expands evidently to fill voids.
    Up until today to I didn't know it existed, lol. Just thought grout was sand and cement.

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    In my humble opinion having
    polycarbonate in the roof isn't the best. At the shop we have top 3rd of wall sheeting (about 7 sheets over 23mtr span from memory) on two sides.
    Frisky wife, happy life. ​Then I woke up. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.
    From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".

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