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10-21-2020, 01:38 AM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Not funny. Half-assed piss-ant of a...
Not funny. Half-assed piss-ant of a Campbell-Hausfeld air compressor shaped-object I still haven't upgraded has to do even media blast on "the installment plan"!
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10-20-2020, 08:40 PM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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"Old rags" with professional rigging training...
"Old rags" with professional rigging training enough to have later taught the damned course?
I wanted somebody kilt, I called for an air strike, not for an avoidable accident.
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10-20-2020, 08:25 PM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Even a well-built wheeled gantry is not meant for...
Even a well-built wheeled gantry is not meant for moving stuff "under load". SIDE force or TWIST can fail an otherwise overly stout beam in a New York Minute, EG: with not a great deal longer...
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10-20-2020, 04:09 PM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Your are out of your tiny MIND you try to roll an...
Your are out of your tiny MIND you try to roll an IC engine dangling off a H-F grade engine hoist!
Those casters are for easy of getting the rig into PLACE whilst there is NO load on it!
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10-20-2020, 02:29 PM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Only if it don't bend and collapse FIRST! ...
Only if it don't bend and collapse FIRST!
DAMHIKT, but thankfully, I had figured their alleged 2 Ton was only a one ton anyway. Got that shot right at least. -
10-20-2020, 01:44 PM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Not "chock". Lift clear off the deck. Let...
Not "chock".
Lift clear off the deck.
Let a timber pad take the weight. Doesn't need a whole railway trestle bridge.
Coupla 4" X 6" cuts. Not hard to tote right along with the rig,... -
10-20-2020, 11:10 AM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Make and model would be wiser. H-F 2 ton...
Make and model would be wiser.
H-F 2 ton specs are online. 3 1/2" casters.
THEIR one-ton uses two 3 1/2", two 3".
Dozen other makers brand the same Chicom product, different paint.
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10-20-2020, 10:25 AM
Thread: Wheel replacement on an engine hoist
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Fair certain I can move my TWO-tonner HF POS...
Fair certain I can move my TWO-tonner HF POS about as easily with pads as wheels except for taking it out onto the street to git it from concrete carport & UPPER driveway to and from lower driveway...