diamond dogs
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 24, 2019
hi, longtime lurker just joined. well the first major addition to my machine shop turned out to be too good of a deal not to pass up, even though i wasnt really ready for it.
so here is my situation,.its sitting on my trailer with a tarp on it and im not sure the best way to get it off. its a flatbed deckover trailer, deck is mabey 3' off the ground? currently dont have ramps that could handle the machine. i have a 5,500# pallet jack, so once on the ground im fine, and a 3 ton chain fall hoist, but no place currently built to rig it to that would support it. its going in a pole building with a 9' door, probably unloading outside perpendicular to that which is a level gravel driveway.
i guess id like to build a system where i could safely pick other machines off the trailer, but i dont want to spend allot of money or take up a huge amount of shop space with a steel mobile gantry or something. It occured to me that i could build a treated wood overbuilt stationary gantry that i could keep outside, that i could pull the trailer under, pick the machine up with the chain hoist and drive away / drop it down on some plywood and then get it with my pallet jack. there is a place just past the shop door that i use pretty much for junk at this point and could clear that away and that could be a home for the gantry. i could also move it around if i needed to.
any ideas? what design of treated wood gantry would be so over built as to be safe for say 5,000#?
any help or better ideas would be much appreceated, thanks.
so here is my situation,.its sitting on my trailer with a tarp on it and im not sure the best way to get it off. its a flatbed deckover trailer, deck is mabey 3' off the ground? currently dont have ramps that could handle the machine. i have a 5,500# pallet jack, so once on the ground im fine, and a 3 ton chain fall hoist, but no place currently built to rig it to that would support it. its going in a pole building with a 9' door, probably unloading outside perpendicular to that which is a level gravel driveway.
i guess id like to build a system where i could safely pick other machines off the trailer, but i dont want to spend allot of money or take up a huge amount of shop space with a steel mobile gantry or something. It occured to me that i could build a treated wood overbuilt stationary gantry that i could keep outside, that i could pull the trailer under, pick the machine up with the chain hoist and drive away / drop it down on some plywood and then get it with my pallet jack. there is a place just past the shop door that i use pretty much for junk at this point and could clear that away and that could be a home for the gantry. i could also move it around if i needed to.
any ideas? what design of treated wood gantry would be so over built as to be safe for say 5,000#?
any help or better ideas would be much appreceated, thanks.