Thread: Suggestions for lifting heavy items in the yard

Originally Posted by LordBug

I remember seeing on here some time ago someone hired a folding gantry crane to shift his mill to the shed.
Ally construction, and with a decent lifting capacity.

That was me. I think it was about $150 or $200 to hire for the day. Buying one wouldn't be cheap though. eg https://cranedepot.com/products/1-to...m-gantry-crane
I tonne capacity $3200 approx
Wanting to use something on soft ground (grass) adds a whole new level of excitement though.
peter

Originally Posted by snapatap

Landrover Accumulitis- when a Landrover owner must acquire additional Landrovers to keep their original landrover functional.

Actually someone once told me that Land Rovers and Range Rovers are environmentally friendly, they break down in the Australian Environment.
Kryn

Originally Posted by OxxAndBert

Is this the sort of railway crane you mean Malb?

Steve

No, its about a generation older than what I was thinking of. I will grab some pics of the one locally tomorrow for you and put them up. Nothing wrong with the style in your pic, except that they would be hard to locate or duplicate.

I have been trying for two days to think of the device the yanks use. Typically for me I am a day late and a dollar short.
Jin poles was the term that I was trying to think of. .Basically the same as you blokes are using based on a triangle either ground mounted or on a trailer or truck. There are lots of images in GOOGLE.


From my mate whose has a Land Rover,"what do you do when you buy a new Land Rover and it doesn't leak?

"Send it back cos its not a genuine Land Rover."

Jin Poles on ute tray.jpg

Thanks Grahame - hadn't heard of the term Jin Poles.
I've actually used a similar arrangement a couple of years back while helping erect the portal frames for a mate's shed. Frames were assembled on the ground and pinned by a single bolt in their stirrups, then winched up to vertical using a strut somewhat like a single Jin pole. Hard to describe - I'll try to find a photo.



More Landrovers in that piccy too

Steve

Hi Steve, I went down and took a couple of photos of the crane at the local museum this morning. This is a bout a generation older than the one in the nearest town when I was a kid, it had a hand winch on it and from memory a timber pole boom. The whole upright and boom rotates 270 deg in the ground between the stays so it provides a lot of swing and height range. May not suit your requirements as it is fixed in place, and a gin pole type setup with a permanent base might serve better in terms of not taking up as much space, but something like this could be built relatively easily if having a permanent fixture was not an issue.

Edit, sorry about 2 pics on their side, had corrected that prior to posting, but they come out rotated anyway.

Originally Posted by Grahame Collins

Jin poles was the term that I was trying to think of. .Basically the same as you blokes are using based on a triangle either ground mounted or on a trailer or truck. There are lots of images in GOOGLE.

Jin Poles on ute tray.jpg

Hi Grahame,
Out of curiosity, what is this used for??? Looks a handy bit of gear?
Kryn

I had a little Cranville Wombat backhoe that I used as a yard crane, I have seen them for sale recently but the prices they want for them seem to be over the top now.
I paid 1500 bucks for mine with an old tandem pipe trailer.

shed

Originally Posted by OxxAndBert

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I built a similar unit to this one. I used a diff from an old truck and an old 2t workshop crane. Could hitch it up to the front or back of the 4x4. Worked well.
I reconfigured the crane section after I had finished and mounted it on the back of the 4x4.

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I have also used the 2 pole setup shown in the tray top pic. I had the poles turned the other way so they were up near the cab end.
Used 2 hand winches to lift the object on to the back of the 4x4. Very shaky but it was only needed for the one lift.

Tony

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Hi Grahame,
Out of curiosity, what is this used for??? Looks a handy bit of gear?
Kryn

Other than saying it came from Google images, I don't know.

I chose it because it was similar to what could be used for the OP purposes- being mounted on a flatbed and the OP had a flatbed.
from reading and seeing pics I know that the basic idea was used a lot in the yank oil fields.

Some of those examples looked flimsy to say the least., but a lot of them were made from drill tube which is pretty tough tube.

Grahame

You just remended me that years ago I used to know a bloke that had something similar mounted on the back of his Suzuki LJ81 ute, he used it for erecting sheds, on the front he had a hydraulically operated bulldozer blade, for getting rough levels. This particular vehicle also had 4 wheel steering.
Back in the 80's you could get away with something like that.
Kryn

You could always swing off the front.
Gin pole setups used a lot in the 50`s and 60`s in the USA for oil field work and telephone companies.

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I have seen an old Blitz truck setup the same way at an old gold mine in northern WA.

Love the power wagons.

Originally Posted by Commander_Keen

Love the power wagons.

Yeah - they look like a tough old beast.

Don't think the Landrover is up to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhWu6XBKtqA

Steve

I've had mine on some pretty wild angles, but never pulling stumps like that...