We did a bunch at a used car lot and used a wrecker boom, slings and a simple spreader bar fabbed from scrap. I've done three for myself just using jacks, cribbing and pipe. Cab swaps beat bodywork and if say a titled half-ton cab happens to land onto a one ton rolling chassis that would (hypothetically of course) do wonders for tax and insurance rates.
I used a farm tractor to pull the cab off my 11 lml durimax. I Put two heavy hauler straps through the front doors and one through the back door and two small ones at the front to balance it out. Used a 125hp tractor but could work with a smaller one just check load ratting.
How about a come along? Got a perfectly good in the tool box. Single cab and same body style as yours should be light enough to be picked up like that. Gonna pull everything and paint the frame before rust gets any worse.
Good thinking I see you’ve placed what looks like a 4x4 beam through the cab on the structure metal of the door frame, with the doors removed. I think everyone’s concerned with using a strap with the doors still on the cab. I’ve heard horror stories of people wrecking cabs and doors. I wonder if this would be safe for a four door cab someone try it and let us know
Make sure you use a healthy tree... my grandma had an oak in her yard since before my grandpa bought the house in '59 and one day it just fell over. When we went to check it out the inside of the trunk was,quite literally, the consistency of a sponge.
Sure can and it's done all the time using two post lifts but I've done them with no lift, just pipes and cribbing. A cab only needs to CLEAR the rolling chassis for a swap. Chassis roll nicely on bare rims if ya need the clearance. Just good old redneck engineerin',
