professor95 wrote:
Like I said.....We have an ingenious and innovative bunch on this thread.
Now, Ryan, to show my ignorance... what is a "laughing jib"? Apparently it is an extension, but how it attaches and could reach as high as the roof of an RV to lift an A/C is unclear. It also looks like the crane is in a different position in the bed between the two photos. Could you please explain further? Just so we know this is not a new subject, it relates to lifting the heavy Chinese gennys into a truck for transport.
Wgeorge11, don't forget I had the same carring situation until a few months ago. My genny was on a carrier at the rear of the TT.
Right ok.
The laughing jib IIRC, gets its name because it looks really funny out on the end of the boom.
In my case it is nothing more than a piece of 1&1/2 inch square tubing. All of the boom pieces are square tubing and telescope inside each other. Locking pins hold everything in place.
The crane is solidly mounted to the passenger side rear of the truck. It has not moved between the photos. It does swivel around 360 degrees, maybe that is what is causing the confusion?
I could not find a better picture, but this is what I had in mind for your rig professor. It stows low so pulling the fiver wont be any issue, yet it still can losd/unload the hitch and genny with no back strain.
Professor,
The crane pictured is very much like mine except mine did not come with the tall pole base.
Mine was also alot cheaper than the one pictured.
The mfg pictures of mine have it mounted to the bed floor, and tucked under the bed rail for storage.
I needed to build the raised platform that my crane is mounted to because the gen is quite tall.
If you were to get the same model as me and install it without building a tall base, you will have met all of you criteria.
In the photo you can imagine how without the raised base the crane will stow along the bottom of the bed rail, and above the wheel well.
I bet you could even use it with the bed topper in place :B
EDIT;
Boom extensions ie. laughing jibs, are super handy to have around. I use a 6 foot laughing jib all the time. It allows a 16 foot height reach in my case.
The laughing jib coming in real handy here.
Its also good for getting roof A/C units on and off of rigs :B
The crane pictured is very much like mine except mine did not come with the tall pole base.
Mine was also alot cheaper than the one pictured.
The mfg pictures of mine have it mounted to the bed floor, and tucked under the bed rail for storage.
I needed to build the raised platform that my crane is mounted to because the gen is quite tall.
If you were to get the same model as me and install it without building a tall base, you will have met all of you criteria.
In the photo you can imagine how without the raised base the crane will stow along the bottom of the bed rail, and above the wheel well.
I bet you could even use it with the bed topper in place :B
EDIT;
Boom extensions ie. laughing jibs, are super handy to have around. I use a 6 foot laughing jib all the time. It allows a 16 foot height reach in my case.
The laughing jib coming in real handy here.
Its also good for getting roof A/C units on and off of rigs :B
saycheese wrote:The wheel kit is nice, but it doesn't fit any of my applications well. I have a very nice hand truck that I use to move my Champ around at home and to move it into position for lifting with my hoist. Since I carry and run it for the most part from the bed of my truck, I don't have to lift a thing. I purchased one of the Prof's recommendations from TSC (large thick rubber pad) to sit it on in the bed of the truck. Maybe you can figgure out something that works like this without the back problems.drfife wrote:I had thought to get this, but I've read that many don't because it makes it easier for thieves too. ๐saycheese wrote:
...Yeah, the weight and bulk is something of a downside for me, but the upsides are many.
Thanks for the help.
Get the wheel kit. It makes moving the generator around MUCH easier.
HTH's Curt
saycheese wrote:
I looked at all kinds of generators.....even this one, but with all the factors considered, the Champ won out hands down. Now I can charge my batteries, boondock, and use it at home. This thing will do it all!
The Blue Max is sold thru Homier Tools. Homier is a lot like Harbor Freight in the products they carry.
Homier is known for their rolling tool shows that set up for a few days in different cities throughout the year. I have some Homier tools and have returned products under their waranty. They seem to be a responsive and responsible company to buy from.
Their generators are (were?) built by Jiung Dong. JD is a huge, long time Chinese manufacturer of small air cooled engines for generators, waterpumps, scoothers, etc. Many of the rebranded Chinese generators sold in this country are built by JD. If you look you can usually find the JD label on the engine or decipher it from the engine serial number.
I own a JD build generator under the ELM3000 label. Like the Champ, it has a great little, well built 200 cc engine cloned from the Honda GX200. Unlike the Champ it uses a capacitor for voltage regulation. While the capacitors do not fail from heat as some AVRs may, they are somewhat responsible for an increase in what someone called "dirty power". On my older camper, the ELM3000 would make the microwave run twice as fast. There was an avalanch in the sine wave that the microwave apparently saw as a zero crossing and double clocked to 120 HZ. The micro worked, but if you set it for 10 minutes you only got five minutes of operation. When the carb on the ELM3000 developed some sort of problem that cleaning would not resolve, I ordered a Champion carb since I did not have a JD supplier and sliped it right on. Fits and works great!
Anyway, the Blue Max would not have been a bad decision - it is a good unit and is capable of giving many hours of excellent service as my ELM3000 has done. The ELM3000 is constantly being loaned out to friends who do not have generators for camping and back-up power. No one has ever complained! But, the CPE (IMHO) was a better decision.
If you look at the output of the Champ on a scope and compare it to a JD generator, there is all the difference in the world.
I originally posted these scope shots many months ago. Brand X is my JD built ELM 3000. The Champion 36540 (not pictured) is similar to the 40008 with the exception of slightly more noise (flutter) on the signal. I am posting them again for all the newbes that have joined us since then.
