Has anyone made a temporary hoist to lift machinery up?

[Nelson]

Sometimes, we need to make a temporary hoist of sorts in order to move machinery into our shops.

Has anyone made such a device, and, if so, do you have any pictures of what it looked like?

I am attaching a copy of the Army Riggers Rigging Handbook, which gives a lot of ideas for how to make hoisting devices.

 

[wawoodman]

That is a VERY cool handbook! Thanks.

 

[CharlieW]

4-wheeled platform dollys and a 2-wheeled hand truck were my first movers.

I made this hoist 25 years ago to move things with. The first configuration had a chainfall hanging from it.



A few years later my son came up with this winch that we mounted on top of it.





A couple years ago I picked up this cherry picker for $25 and use it mostly now.



Last year I came across these Rol-A-Lifts. They will each lift 2000 lbs. All I haved moved so far, with them, is my 3000 lb Lagun mill. They work nicely.



Charlie W.

 

[HarryG]

Last year I found a manual Hoyer patient lift on CL. It resembles a smaller version of CharlieW's cherry picker. Uses a hydraulic cylinder, capacity is 400 lbs., and the post is quickly removable from the base for storage.

No picture...just Google "Hoyer"

 

[Phil3]

If like me, and have no place to store trailers, etc., I saw one person use something that I thought was pretty ingenious and transportable in a pickup using one person. Won't work in a garage though as this idea needs headroom.

It was four long 4 x 4s or bigger that were 12' or longer. They were arranged in a teepee fashion, with a chain around the base perimeter so they teepee could not splay out. The tops were joined together with a heavy steel rod and a nut w/washer. A chain fall was suspended from the steel rod. Lift equipment up using chainfall, back pickup or trailer under and between teepee legs and lower. Pack away teepee parts and done. You can attach chainfall and push legs together one at a time to erect it and then tie chain around teepee leg feet.

I liked it because one person could do it and the equipment is relatively compact.

Charlie's engine hoist works well. I have had the opportunity to see it in action. It is HEAVY!

- Phil

 

[Highpower]

Try this link: http://yabe.algebra.com/~ichudov/misc/ebay/Army-Rigging-Handbook-FM-5-125/Army-Riggers-Rigging-Handbook-TM-5-125.pdf

 

[Nelson]

It works for me. It may be you need to update your version of Adobe Acrobat.

I made another copy which I am uploading.


Best,

 

[dualquad]

Hoyer lift in action. I got this from someone who did not need it. I used it to pick up the bed for my Clausing 111 30" lathe which I am in the process or restoring

 

[Alan Douglas]

It's for repair of stone walls, not machinery, but I made this one last week. $250 worth of aluminum pipe and tubing from Speedy Metals, a 1/2 ton chain hoist, and some aluminum stock I had around. The legs telescope from 11 ft to 6 ft, so I can fit it into my car, and carry it into the woods. The photo was a practice session, moving a 650 lb rock across my neighbor's back yard.


There was no particular reason for machining away the underside of the block; that's the way I got it. I bandsawed the cutouts.

 

[4GSR]

Back many years ago when I was living at home, dad was always dragging home old ancient machines for our shop. We had some scaffolding left over from the house building and erected it up and had a beam made of several 2 x 10's up on edge, clamped with c-clamps. On this beam we hung a old Budget chain hoist he picked up from work. And this is what we used to unload the machines with. Wish I had a camera back then to take pictures, but it never happen. I did find a couple of pictures that I scanned and attached them below showing the bottom section of scaffolding and the chain hoist being used to hold up that chunk of iron while I tried to burn out a large broken tap.