Making Our Own Shop Crane 

Nice building one for my shop wasn’t quite sure how to hang hoist on trolleys

good to see a plan come together

Wow another fantastic piece of purpose made equipment, awesome job. Love how you engineered the lifting contraption. I noted that you left the ladder in place, I assume as a safety measure to stop the gantry from head butting the Discovery bonnet 🤔🤣. Great to see Sasha participating as usual, being the Site Manager is such tiring work, bless her. Keep up the great work. 😎👍

Great job

Hey Joe that’s an excellent addition to the shop! More than a little jealous of your new space.

Nice work. I'd suggest additional braces on the ends of the I-beam to overlap the uprights. A big risk is uneven loading and folding at that joint- especially with the hollow 4x4 uprights. Spread that potential load out ;)

That was one hell of a good job! I'm sure we'll be seeing you using that a lot for your projects. It looks like Sasha, the Safety Supervisor, has just given up. 😏

you are so busy in your video，good job！

Irish spring soap original scent, chunk up a pack of bars and sprinkle those chunks all around your shop. Supposed to keep out most bugs and rodants.

GREAT JOB! I ENJOYED your video!!!!

Awesome. Now I need to build a shop so I have an excuse to make a gantry crane.

Nice work

you need to fit brackets to the gantry up rights at the top if you dont it ill do the splits at some point

Stink bugs are a unique bug. it's hard to get an insecticide that will work because their entire adolescent life they are arthropod (eight legs) and their anatomy is the same as a mite. So normal insecticides that work on six-legged insects won't work on them until they become an adult... And by that time they're all over the damn place. I bought a house that was cedar shake, first two years I thought I was going to lose my mind. All winter one would pop up it was like where is Waldo. After doing extensive research I came to the conclusion that they were laying their eggs under the cedar shake, then they would mature and find any little crack in my house to get through what's the temperature got cooler outside. So I knew where they were breeding but that didn't help me out cuz I can't go underneath every single shake... My solution, I got the Hot shots bed bug insecticide. This is especially important because it works on bed bugs which are a mite. The main ingredient also works on ticks. Anyways on my pressure washer I had a foam wand. I got a hose that matched the diameter of the feed for the soap supply. I put a quick connect on the end of the foam wand so it would accept the pressure washer nozzles. I used a 5° nozzle and sprayed all of the cedar shakes, the entire house. I did this late summer... We didn't have any that year. We didn't have any the following two years and I didn't retreat. last year we had two. So I can say 100% that it works. You have to figure out where they are laying their eggs. It will be organic and probably wood. It could be a woodpile, fallen trees, etc.... Word of warning... Learn from my mistake... For God's sake get yourself an organic respirator. The wind was blowing the day that I was doing it. I guess I got some fine particles in my nose and I made more snot than slimer from Ghostbusters. I couldn't stop sneezing for two days. Good news I did my whole house 5k sqft. with 2gal. I got the stuff from home Depot it costs like 10 bucks a gallon then, so it's probably 13 bucks now. Very economical, especially since it lasted for 2+ years. You're welcome.

All that heavy steel overhead is freaky

new here. nice build. can you share what size beam you used (overhead). obviously, no engineering, but those i-beams can take tremendous weight loads for a given span. think your winch was 2000k or so, wonder if you have measured for deflection after picking something up like a big motor or so.

Love the video - subbed!

The solution to the box elder bug is a hard frost. They’re just trying to soak up the last of the warm days too 😊

very nice work im going to build one just like it , but i am going all out on the casters , that thing prolly weighs 7or 800 pounds alone

🎉🎉 there you go and maybe you can lift things up to the mezzanine like that not safe lol

HB Machinery gantry’s use a clamping system where the bolts are on the outside of the beam, we use that brand . It makes it easier to adjust where the legs are & doesn’t make them fixed. You could modify yours to do that style. I know others mention glasses, but you shouldn’t be wearing gloves while drilling. I know someone who lost a thumb because of that.

What are the measurements of the i-beam ?

Next time you need a mag drill you can come snag mine

those bottom bits are way too short in my opinion they should be longet and thicker if for some reason a load shifts when u are lifting it its gonna topple over

Very cool. Just a thought maybe some neon pant on the feet of it so when you are backing a car out in the shop you might see the where the feet are. Grey primer might blend in. Plus it will add another 100l0lbs lifting capacity.

I want one.

first rule of workin alone is dont get hurt ....cause none body give hoot ,except the echo of yur screams ,,yay love the project ,put old 1/2 ton axle stubs on der front use cut off straight axle king pin ,with levers on both sides to steer ,yippy ,bigger base footprint .

NOOOOO...C is for cookie and that's good enough for me

A dedicated electric gantry hoist would be far better than the VEVOR attic lift device you got. It isn't designed to use the way you are using it. When it fails, it will end dreams, just sayin'. Be careful.

The portable gantry will save your back and also will save you from doing dodgy lifts like lifting a gantry at ground level with an LR4!

Joe I am new to your channel, just a thought but God gave two eyes so how about using eye protection I know I would have heavy duty straps to hold the winch and use grade 8 bolts then there is never a doubt if it will hold

Joe, PLEEEEEEEASE wear safety glasses when drilling and throwing swarf everywhere. Sorry to sound like your mum, just can't sit by and watch without flinching as you drill

Add corner support at the top. RWB ❤🎉

Good job fabbing the gantry crane. What size beam did you use, you gave specs for side uprights.

insects hate garlic and orange oil try that