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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking
Subject: Jib Crane - Dumb Ideas - Other Stuff
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:40:06 -0700
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I admit I waste some of my free time perusing social media.  An MSC ad 
appeared in one of my feeds showing a jib crane set in what looked like 
a big block of concrete.  Not bolted to the floor or with a giant 
concrete foundations.  A block of concrete setting on a floor.

It was quite expensive and only had a lifting capacity of half a ton.  I 
thought that's really stupid.  I have a cherry picker that's much more 
mobile, weighs less, and is rated for 3/4 ton at full extension.  Then I 
realized.  I can't use my cherry picker.  Its had an outboard motor 
hanging from it for two years, I haven't gotten around to making a stand 
to put it on, and its not going back on the boat it came off of.  Now 
that's stupid.  LOL.

Oh, yeah.  The gooseneck hitch is done.  Some pictures here: 
https://www.yumabassman.com/2024/10/15/gooseneck-hitch-installation-2024-f250/ 


Well, its not quite finished.  I still have not assembled the companion 
5th wheel that will fit onto it.

....and I finished a project to install motorized floor boards on the 
truck so my wife can get in and out of the truck safely.  Two very short 
video clips.  https://www.yumabassman.com/2024/10/20/1201/  I had been 
keeping a step stool in the back of the truck for when she rode along 
with me.

I would have just installed nerf bars like I had on my old truck, but 
they would still be to high.  This stock Ford is the tallest truck (from 
ground to door sill) I have ever owned.  I have to grab the hand rail 
and pull up without the running boards.  Being a 4x4 I really didn't 
want steps that would sacrifice ground clearance

Not sure what I'm going to do when I wear out these stock tires and 
replace them with some taller/wider AT tires.

-- 
Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff


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