3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
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ol Bombero-JC wrote:
"jlaustin" - envious of the building!
I sort-of do the same for my 250# SG hitch using the HF electric hoist.
Back under, install or remove - drive out.
(The hoist isn't permanently mounted - so it can be "hung" inside or outside.)
Why limit yourself to the "range" of the crane?
Since you already have the hoist - how about an overhead "trolly" system?
While it was intended for heavy engines - used a shop once with that setup via chain hoist.
Drove in one end with pickup & ski boat. Removed rebuilt V8 from pickup bed, rolled back (via o/head trolly) to hitched ski-boat, lowered into boat.
Never unhitched or moved the pickup or boat.
Drive out the other end.
The trolly also had a turn - so the engine (or?) could be "flown" over to a work area before lowering. Very slick.
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Until I built the new building, I had the electric hoist hanging from a beam in my hangar - I would unhitch elsewhere, back under the hoist, lift off the hitch, drive away and then lower the hitch onto a child's wagon to move around out of the way.
Since 99% of the time the FW will be sitting in the building, there wouldn't be anywhere much for the hitch to go with a trolley running in the long axis of the building. I could run a trolley side-to-side in the building, but I don't think that would accomplish much more than the crane.
What I envision is mounting the crane to a vertical frame member on one side of the roll-up door. Once the FW is unhitched, I'll pull forward until the hitch is in the door opening. Then just swing the retracted crane around into the opening, lower it with the electric hoist, pluck the hitch out of the pickup bed (with the electric hoist), swing the crane 180 degrees around and deposit it on an elevated platform in the corner of the building (which just happens (HAHA!) to be exactly the same distance in the other direction as the distance to the center of the door opening! That means I'll never have to touch the hitch once unpinned from the truck bed until it's pinned-in next time:C What's slicker than that???
The electric hoist is a HF cheapy, too, so if I really need another hoist on a trolley, I'll just buy another one! :B
Regards,
John
