Harbor Freight Electric Hoist Mount for a Gantry Crane by  

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I have not yet built a trolley system. Only in my mind. So I have been looking for some "How-to" videos. I have watched many videos where they struggle with the winch tilting when mounted from ONE trolley. I got to thinking to use two trolleys and make an adapter plate. Then I came across your video which verifies my way of thinking. Yours is even more simplified. Awesome video and information. I now know how I want to build mine when I can finally get to. Thank you for posting.👍

This is the best solution I’ve found for mounting these winches to trolleys. I just made mine like this yesterday and it’s working amazingly - thanks!

Thanks for this informative video. I have a gantry with the chain hoist been wanting an electric hoist you came up with a superb solution for the Harbor Freight electric hoist. Many thanks. 👍👍

Fantastic, thank you for sharing.

Perfect

Great idea thank you for sharing

Thank you

Thanks for the video!! I just bought 2 trollies and did this with my gantry and HF hoist.

Awesome!!

I like the way you mounted this. Thanks for sharing I am going to do the same for my crane too 🙏

Thanks for the info. The hardest part was finding something to cut the 1-1/16” holes LOL. But it’s up and working great!! I did this by myself and that hoist was heavy. I used straps to pull it up a few inches at a time until it got to the top.

Thanks my Bro ... Great idea ...

I m just planning to install new crane 500 kg, this video provide thé right answer to my questions, great job and thanks for sharing. I was expecting yo get measurements for ipn and attach steel

Very nice!!!!

Great idear👍😊

I agree this is the best way to hang such hoist. Have made one myself a couple of years ago, first tried with 1 trolley because i ony had 1. Didnt work. then i build something similair. Only diffrence is i had a piece of square tube laying around wich fitted perfectly in the original brackets of the hoist. Drilled 2 holes in the square tube to fit the axles of the dolly's and welded plates for strength around the holes. That thing was indestructable. i had it installed on a 6m I-beam and that i beam was also hanging by 4 dolly's on i-beam either side.

Neat idea, I could've used that thing when I pulled the motor from my pickup. The Ford diesel 7.3 weighs in at 1100 pounds. I used an engine hoist and two other people besides me to wrestle it out of the truck and put in the replacement motor. One big heavy SOB engine.

Nice. I'm going with this design. Thanks for the video!

Man keep it up 💪🏽👍🏾🛠

Thanks for the video definitely helpful since I just purchased the crane and don’t want a chain hoist and was wondering how to get the electric one up there !

What size are the holes you drilled in the angle iron?

thanks for making things easir

Did you do it solo or did you have help? Looks pretty heavy.

Crazy they make you do all that, and buy 2 trolleys. Was thinking about getting 1 of these to mount on my shed's ridge trolley and keep the old budgit free to bring to jobs, but guess not

Great video, making an electric hoist even more versatile. Did you use the bolts that came with the hoist or perhaps use stronger ones, since I would guess the weakest "link" in that design would be those bolts/nuts. Thanks for sharing.

Looks great. Would it be better to also put a spacer in the space between the two pieces of angle iron so that the attaching rod doesn't start to loosen?

I found this very helpful I've tried connecting my Harbor freight electric hoist to my gantry crane with chain and the interesting observation is the twisting of the spool causes the cable to rub against the automatic shut off stopping the motor relatively frequently with a few clamps I got it to work just fine but I'm curious under heavy load if you wouldn't have some twisting take place in the sense of one of the sides wheels lifting off the beam slightly as the load shifts from the twisting of the spooling of the cable being loaded a lot more than the other if it makes any sense to you lol

what size angle did you use?

I'm looking to buy a similar setup so I can remove my h3t pickup bed due to a rusty frame but my bed now probably weights about 1000 pounds due to overland build out rooftop tent drawer in bed bed rack , I don't want to dissemble anything so im looking to see what options are available

Great video, does the hoist stay outside? If so how do you protect it from the elements?

This is great! Is that 3" angle with 3/16 thickness? Thanks for the help!

Can it lift your trucks engine from the bay? And also that angle iron is called 3 inch angle iron. There's 1 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch and 4 inch angle iron.

At 2:31 I would have thought you would have spaced the brackets out wider so that the holes were mounted closer to the vertical section of the angle iron. That way you wouldn't use as many inside spacers and there would be much less moment on the mounting bolts, with the vertical section of the angle iron and the roller plate nearly touching (could even weld AND bolt it this way). In this configuration you are not lifting by the bolts in tension but in quite a lot of bending moment. I think that you have much reduced capacity in this configuration. You really can't just simply take the ratings of each part and call it 1 Ton if you have modified it heavily and have have not tested it to destruction with load monitoring. Don't get me wrong, this is a great looking upgrade and a job well done, I am just not sure that your numbers are where you think they are.

Great common sense solution!