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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: Shop Crane Revisited
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:41:23 -0700
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On 12/21/2024 5:35 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> I figure I need at a minimum a 2 ton shop crane.  Probably a gantry 
> crane would be the most useful.  At over a dollar a pound (minimum) for 
> a commercially made crane and must are just wrong for what I consider 
> ideal I've had a hard time opening my wallet.  I've been more mouth than 
> billfold on this subject I guess.
> 
> Ideally I want one that will just barely fit through a 10x10 ft doorway 
> AND fit around an 8'6" trailer.  A little taller and only being able to 
> bring it in through the 10x12 ft door might do more work, even if it 
> might be slightly less convenient.  Telescoping might be an option 
> (vertically).
> 
> Nobody seems to make one exactly like that. They meet some specs, but 
> not others etc.
> 
> So anyway, since my dad passed I've been managing my parents properties. 
>   One is a commercial property (4 good sized lots together) that's had a 
> renter in it since about three years ago when I arranged it while my dad 
> was recovering from having a brain tumor removed.  Looking at their 
> finances It looks like the rental on that was making the difference 
> between living and just surviving for them.  Anyway, since my dad passed 
> I've been managing it again.  The renter called me on Monday and said 
> they were completely out, and let me know where I could pick up all the 
> keys.  Good renters.  I had to remind them rent was past due a few 
> times, but no worse than some renters from when I had rental houses. 
> Anyway I headed out a few days ago to pickup the keys and give the place 
> a once over to see what I want to do with everything.
> 
> There are trucks (one left behind by the renter (with permission)) and a 
> couple of my dad's stored in the back.  There is that 42 Willy's Jeep 
> I've mentioned.  A pretty nice fifth wheel trailer "abandoned" by a 
> previous renter and various assortment of junk, tools, and equipment.
> 
> The renter was a solar installer working on one of the big solar 
> projects out in the desert, and they were mostly using the property to 
> park a fifth wheel for their crew, using one of the buildings to receive 
> shipments, and storing construction equipment inside and outside in the 
> large fenced yard.   It worked out really well, because they got what 
> they needed in a rural area, and my dad didn't have to remove/move all 
> his junk.  He left that for me.  LOL.
> 
> Anyway, out by the back fence I found several fairly large I-beams 
> setting up off the ground on wood beams.  I think I just found my gantry 
> crane.  Now if only I can stumble across some big steel casters out 
> there somewhere I'll be set.  Maybe they are under the old gas pumps 
> over by the south fence.  ;^)
> 

Hmmmm....  I wonder if I 'll get lucky and stumble across a big piece of 
thick wall steel tube I can use to make a jib crane over by the mills 
and lathe in the back of the shop.




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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff

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