It followed me home

[JWBIRONWORKS]

Frosty,
The web ads are free, I did have to give up some coin this time

John

[KevinD]

None the less, nice score!

[larrynjr]

Awesome score John!

[hammerkid]

thats an great find John , wished i was as lucky as you LOL

[tetnum]

i have had metal appearing at my shop but the big peices are 250#3/8 galvnised cable(stream team) a pipe 24 inch dimeter 3feet long(construction scraps) and old corroded transmission?
the transmission just materilised and is sort of puzzleing as to where it came from mabe START (stream trash art) program

[rlarkin]

So a friend of mine comes over today so I can weld up a table for him.
He had all the parts pre-cut, but I had to make some adjustments. Seems as he used the iron worker at his employer, but did not know how to adjust for miters, notches, and metal thickness.
Anyway, we get all done and he loves it. "the table that is."
He says he found something at work that they were throwing out, and he snagged it for me. Say it's yours if you can use it.
He goes to his truck, and when he returns, he sets it on one of my work benches. I could not believe my eyes.

It is a Whitney Tools, 2x2 1/4" notcher. A little dirty, handle is missing, but the dies are in good shape.
I clamped it down, found a piece of 2x2 1/4", placed in the notcher, stuck a piece of 1/2 conduit in the top and gave it a turn.
BAM!. Knocked out a perfect triangle with razor straight edges.

No pics yet. My daughter broke my camera.

Now I gotta build something.

[Frosty]

This hitched a ride home with me today. I don't think it's been used but once or twice, the safety clip is still on the hook, no scratches in the paint and the casters are unmarked.

$100 at a garage sale, $300 at the engine hoist store.

Now I can move things around without pushing the weight restriction on my arm.

Frosty

[Glenn]

Frosty, find the proper size tubing to go inside the tubing cross bar most distant from the load. There should be a stop inside that tube, if not, measure from the middle to about 24 inches beyond the edge of the tubing to act as out riggers and to keep the hoist from tipping over when under load. You may have to drill a hole and weld a nut to the tubing, so you can use a bolt to hold the out rigger in place.

You may want to look at replacing the wheels with all swivel wheels and stronger wheels than those supplied. If you plan to use the hoist on anything other than smooth concrete, a larger diameter wheel should be considered.

This is NOT to be taken lightly. I have seen these things tip over (load was a small block v8), the wheels collapse (load was a 2000 pound), and the wheels dig in and bury up to the frame (into asphalt).

Great score !!

[Frosty]

Good idea about the outrigger even though I don't intend to be lifting or moving odd shaped loads there's always a chance of a wheel getting chocked when in motion, then a little momentum puts the whole thing on it's side.

The wheels are heavy duty and all six swivel. If I need to take it out of the shop I have more off road wheels on dollies I can attach. Maybe motorize something off road one of these days.

Good tips, these things can be dangerous and it pays to use caution. Heck, I sweep the floor before moving anything more than a couple hundred lbs. with one. We had a pebble chock a wheel while we were turning one sideways once. Everybody got out of the way but the load (right angle drive for a drill rig) hit the floor with great authority.

Frosty

[markb]

Went to the dump today and next to me was this pile of sod. I was loading while my wife was unloading. I was afraid the attendant would stop me, then he came over and said I could have as much as I wanted. Got the whole pile about 24 rolls all in good shape, just finished laying it down and it looks good, and I,m ready for a nap.