That is an amazing accomplishment. Great job. Of course it did not really lift up a car. but it did pivot the heavy engine over the front wheels, while they carried most of the weight. Kind of like picking up a wheelbarrow, with the load placed forward. Still a very neat tool though. Color me impressed.
“And for my next trick, I’ll have my lovely assistant hold this hat while I pull a rabbit out of it!” Hahahahaha. I could not help thinking of you doing a magic act when you asked Heather to walk around the car and show there were no wires, chains or jacks under it..... Hope you have a great day Heather, and you too, The Great Skindini...! LOL Whipple
Hi Cecil and Heather!!😀😀 Something that is built too strong never broke!!😀😀 Nice job on the boom and trailer setup. You have needed one of them for a long time!!😀😀 Take care my friends!!😀😀❤❤
Missed your videos the last week not being on here.😎Great job of engineering building the trailer. Put a end roller across the back end to pull logs upon the trailer.
what a cool project just what i was looking for at3 in the night :D a little hack i saw a farmer use was replace the handcrank (for the Trailer wheel and the spars) with a nut for an impact wrench. super quick deployment that way and you only ever need that one impact driver
I would like to see how the crane us built and attached to the trailer…I have the trailer and Princess & Cdn Tire are not far away for stuff as is a steel supply place, thanks!
That works well. Princesses Auto or in the states Harbor Freight, has a truck crane for about $199. that you could add a winch to save some time. But your Crane may have better reach. I really Enjoy the channel ! Best.
That is a very nice build. I made one similar for my friend. It had 3" pipe in the ground 4ft deep with with flat wings metal welded off the side to keep it plumb. It had 2 7/8 drill stem going into that. The top was similar to yours except I trussed the top with some flat strap. And it was fixed with no hydraulic lift. I welded about a 3 ft piece of 1" pipe straight out of the back so he could swivel it. He had it beside his shop so he could load old riding mowers on the trailer to take to scrap. I saw him lift about a 1000 lbs with it with no problem and swivel it around.
And so it should as your Jack is a 8 ton lifting capacity and by dividing by the distance from your fulcrum point by the distance the “a”end of the car is no more than 1/2 ton. You are laughing but if you were not a fitter welder I would have worried but because you are an engineer and you would never build anything under built, it’s built like a tank without going overboard. It’s just great to have that gear at your disposal. Saves your backs that’s for sure. Cheers. Btw people may think you did not use the jack but you were using the pressure relief valve to do your lift and if you got it to lift but weighing over the the capacity of the jack then the jack relief valve should have give away I do believe. What do you reckon Cess? Anyway you would never have proved it unless you actually done your maths anyway. Hey just a couple of fitters chatting people! Good to see you back Cess and Heather.
Awesome job! I love seeing “good old boy” engineers like us making quality tools that will be around long after store bought things fall apart. Big question, what did you use to make the pivot point for the base of the crane? It’s got to be pretty robust since that is a high stress area. Look forward to your response. Keep up the great work
Hello, thank you very much. The pivot point is the front spindle off a large scissor lift unit..it's 2" solid round pin with a thick wall pipe slid over the pin. Cheers!
A hook mounted at the base of the crane for a snatch block for pulling heavy or awkward shaped things onto the trailer with the help of a set of removable ramps on the back and you will be set to move anything within the weight limit of the trailer. And a good guess as to the weight you were picking up is about 1200 pounds!
Hello Frank. I thought of that...the only problem is once the weight pushes down on the rear of the trailer the bike will lift up, then I'd need to make outriggers at the back as well. That's a little more work than I want to put into this trailer. Thanks again. Cheers.
I'll bet you don't have three bodies in that trunk which would add another 600+ lbs to that little car which prob. is a 1000 on the rear.. sound like your winch was struggling.. hehe
Keep up with your work but the harder you work on this channel the more it’s going to pay off in the long run lots of up front work I get it just record everything people love honesty
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