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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Jib Crane - Dumb Ideas - Other Stuff
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:01:06 -0400
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vf6764$hh4d$1@dont-email.me...

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.
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Someone might not know that empty barrels work as outboard stands that let 
you run them.

I had a problem stacking heavy oak beams under a temporary roof overhang 
only a little higher than my head until I had the AHA! moment to guy shear 
legs to a tree. A 1000 Lb lever chain hoist raises the load, a second 500 Lb 
one (HF) in the guy line swings it on or off the stack. The guy line is a 
low stretch tow strap.