Lifting Heavy with a Mobile Wooden Gantry Crane
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- Have you ever tried to move something that was just a little to heavy?
I recently purchased a sawmill, which I will talk about in another video, but I majorly underestimated it's weight.
So I had to build a Gantry.
Here's how!
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I built this gantry crane and lifted my 8' bed off my f250. Lifted my zero turn to change blades, and my cabinet saw to put on its mobile base. Its a back saver for sure!
That sounds amazing, I am happy to hear how successful it's been. I would still always make sure to use secondary safety, wood can still be unpredictable.
This 60 year old WOMAN is building this tomorrow! I need to do some maintenance on my riding lawn mower and in a few months install a steel 18’ driveway gate. Tfs
Great! I just lean one of my mowers (ancient Murray) over onto a folding chair (after removing oil n petrol) and battery. But my other one is way too heavy. So will you lift yours into a vertical position?
Great design and nice work. Anyone helping people overcome heavy and difficult new challenges is an inspiration in our way of thinking!
Was looking to build one for our shop and your design and walkthrough is perfect! Thanks so much for sharing!
Awesome build SLC!
AWESOME!!!
very well laid out and evacuated.
great explanations - editing dept. gets an A+
Terrific idea and job well done! Love your consistent enthusiasm and congrats on the great purchase!
Thank you Kay
Looking forward to seeing the video with the new sawmill!
Nice build on the gantry too.
Thank you Jim
Great job. Great inspiration. Thx for filming this & sharing. 👍🏼
You my friend got the best one I have seen on you tube I’m building your design I need to pull the tub off of a K5 blazer so I’m gonna build two of these thank you for the post and the idea
That's pretty cool! Can't wait to see the saw mill in action!
Thanks MissBeans
Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for!
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After having to get help to move a 400lb wood stove as I could not budge it myself after Canadian Tire put it in the truck, I was starting to wonder how I'm going to deal with moving my saw mill once I get it, and found this. Great idea. I might build one at home and one at my new homestead property so I can transfer big items over. Then use ATV to move it further.
Great video!!!!!
Very cool!
I have to laugh. I only just came across this video today, but looking out my window I see the wooden gantry crane I built a couple of weeks ago for moving the oversized round wood timbers in our timber frame home build. same basic design, but as mine is working on sand rather than a cement floor, no casters ;) I have to move it around largely by hand. Also, when my sawmill arrived, on pallets, the only thing I had for moving them from the street where the truck unloaded, to a safe place on my site, was my F150. I got a tractor about a week after the sawmill was delivered, but it couldn't have lifted the pallets anyway ;)
Hey awesome video! Wow do I wish I had that set up brother! Super cool I subscribed. Really good stuff
beautiful work, congratulations. Paolo from Italy
I don't get the chance to comment on all your videos for being at loss of spectacular wording. Several times you've just left me in awe! Never give up please. Dude I sure could've used one a while back. Cool, your dog is smart for approving!
Thank you Anthony. You don't have to comment in every video, we are just glad you are here.
Frank Howarth did this first. 👍
It’s good to mentioned him
WOW that's a great idea! Also that saw will be awesome!♡♡,
Thank you Loren, hopefully the next video will be showing it off.
damn awsome ! lovit
That's awesome! I don't need anything quite thar strong I'm just lifting a BMW X1 block out of the car.
Beautiful design, well built, I so need to make one that a can take apart or fold up for better storage. I don't have the roof/ceiling height like you do. But always need to move or pick up/out heavy items, engines, transmissions, generators,etc.
Thank you for sharing, now have to do some brain storming
Depending on the way you connect the top to the legs, you might be able to use large bolts that you can remove to store away. Not sure if it would work, but at least it's a thought.
@@SpecificLove7 thank you, for your inspiration and advice, I really appreciate it
Great Job, Now you can also use it to lift the heavy logs into your sawmill. A Win Win for you.
That's a great idea, thank you
Looks great I would love to know how to make one
Great job! You might want to add a temporary cross bean for rolling. Just an idea, but it looks great! Be safe, be cool! Beach, NC
I was thinking about a temporary cross beam as well, thank you for confirming that thought
Thank you. Built my own using cull wood from big box. Def less than $100, not including hoist.
Good job. If your concerned about the strength of the gantry for a particular heavy lift one day then attach some heavy plywood gussets & it will greatly add strength to it.
Nice tip thanks
I have a small garage without much head room which sucks, but if I could put a fixed gantry crane infront of the entrance and then add a roof to it so it's in essence a very sturdy portico with some sort of winch or chain system. This would allow me to pull engines, bodies off of frames etc and not have to clear snow out from the front doors.
Would you have a materials list for this crane? What kind of casters and bolt sizes? Great video! Need to make this to lift the engine out of my boat.
I agree a few dimensions and lumber lengths would help the less experienced "viewers"
That's nice I have thinking about building something like this to put a car engine in and to save a little money.
Could you post the plans or a rough sketch?
so, do you have an exact cut list to follow buddy?
I would like to have one to lilt my motorcycle...
Could 4x4 post be used?
A downloadable PDF would have been "the cherry on top"...nice work though.
Wondered if your going to use it to load/unload logs into pick up and/or trailer?
That might be a possibility in the future, it has been very useful so far.
Nice build! I recently bought a sawmill myself and I quickly learned that moving 3-4 thousand pound logs around is not easy. Have you tried lifting any logs yet with it? I’m thinking I might need two of these for each end of the log just to get them on my trailer…..
I've used it for one 22+ dia log with success.
Nice project, two questions 1) what was that drill guide you used? 2) where did you get your lumber as it looked much better than what I can get from the big box stores
Also nice saw, I have so many dead ash trees I wish I could cut up for boards. but the mill is way out of my price (and storage) range
Thank you Dave.
I purchased the drill guide on Amazon. I have it listed in my Amazon store under "Drill Attachments". The link is in the description.
As for the wood, I surprisingly found it at our local blue Big box store, but I did have to search through the piles.
It is awesome that you have Ash trees on your property. We just recently had a huge Ash tree fall in our backyard which is one of the main reasons I got the sawmill.
that you can get in the drillbit section or Kreg jig section at Lowe's and Home Depot. i think the brand is Millscraft(?)
Kreg has one too but it's pricier (no surprise with them)
speaking of overpaying you can find both at higher prices than lowes and certainly homedepot at woodcraft stores
Hello, Love the video. Do you know the weight of the saw and engine you lifted with the crane? Thanks
Sorry I do not, but I would guess 200 pounds.
@@SpecificLove7 Thanks. I'm sure you are correct as that engine alone is approximately 60 pounds. I need to build a gantry that will lift 1,000 pounds as most SBC engines without the tranny weigh about 550lbs. I'm sure this gantry can do that but will test after building. Probably some creaking but no breaking!
@@Danno74Z did you build one to lift that yet? Im looking to build one this week to lift up to 1000 lbs
@@mikemayne5094 Hello No I never made one. I was able to use my engine hoist to make do.
are there plans
Looks like the casters are the weakest link.
Sixteen small connections support all the weight.
Any idea what is max lift capacity in pounds ?
Sorry I do not
What kind of lifting capability would it have, 500kgs?
I have not tested the Max capacity so I am not sure
What is the estimated weight capacity??
It would probably be better to ask a structural engineer that question, and I am not one.
@@SpecificLove7 how much did that part of the mill you lifted weigh?? tia
Video saez chota h bahi
Good and bad
Had to watch to confirm detail concerns
Hopefully somehow you can calculate its load limits. So you don’t assume anything in haste.
Concerns are
1 lack of girt at top of column. Worry it may splay. And do not believe the cross brace is enough. You can see this splaying when you pushed it in grass without load.
2 lack of vertical support below column and where the wheel are.
FAILURE will occur at the column location. As the vertical loading coming down has to transfer over to the wheel. the wheel narrow profile will pose issues of point loading (for slab below) Spread the load. To properly transfer this load from the column you would need a beam deeper (sim to your beam) than you have here.
Recommend blocks be placed under when in use. Could hinge/attach to keep it together
Cloud be placed in use.
Visualize a 45 angle from the column out as an approximate length of the block. Width wider than column. This will help protect your slab as well.
Good the T&G column to beam detail. Better.
Gusset of steel plate or thick plywood improve this.
Wow, that is a lot to think about. Thank you for the information
I'm agreed with all of the above. Are those 2x10s (or 12s?) for the cross bream but 2x4s on the base? Go to great length to avoid holes in the top cross bream, but I see 4 bolts in the base 2x4s? Also the trapezoid gusset @2:40 I would have done in plywood. There are so many bolts on the edges of it.
The beams are 2x10s
Castors are in the wrong spot
The screws you used are deck screws, and not structural screws, and thus, were the wrong screws.