smootz
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2005
- Location
- Southern Ohio
I admit it ----I'm spoiled!
After years of working in and later leasing shop buildings with nice overhead cranes I am really getting tired of fighting with the variety of jib cranes in my home shop. One hernia surgery is enough for anyone so I am always trying to find a safer way to lift and re-position stuff.
I would like to build a small "work station" grade bridge crane to cover the front half of the shop. It would span 30' and travel 40' with a 12' ceiling limiting my height. It would be more for positioning and turning fabricated assemblies (less than 3 tons) so we are not talking everyday use. I just want a simple, manual, preferably low cost way to move stuff anywhere in the area that I want it. I have done the gantry crane thing and own a couple of forklifts. They are always in the way when using them for fixturing/positioning.
Have any of you built a similar contraption for your shop? If so I would love to see some photos and/or hear some ideas before I start buiding my own.
SCOTT (fabricator - wanabee machinist)
After years of working in and later leasing shop buildings with nice overhead cranes I am really getting tired of fighting with the variety of jib cranes in my home shop. One hernia surgery is enough for anyone so I am always trying to find a safer way to lift and re-position stuff.
I would like to build a small "work station" grade bridge crane to cover the front half of the shop. It would span 30' and travel 40' with a 12' ceiling limiting my height. It would be more for positioning and turning fabricated assemblies (less than 3 tons) so we are not talking everyday use. I just want a simple, manual, preferably low cost way to move stuff anywhere in the area that I want it. I have done the gantry crane thing and own a couple of forklifts. They are always in the way when using them for fixturing/positioning.
Have any of you built a similar contraption for your shop? If so I would love to see some photos and/or hear some ideas before I start buiding my own.
SCOTT (fabricator - wanabee machinist)