Chain Fall Support Frame

Fergienewbee · Jun 19, 2013

Every time I get an implement I have to get my BIL to unload it with his Deere and his bucket. I appreciate his help, but he can't always do it when I'd like it done. I'm thinking of putting up a framework or use a couple of trees and a wood beam so I can back under to unload. I had a limb that would have worked great until a wind storm a few years ago. I also have a couple of 3" gate post I could set in concrete and run a beam across them. The implements would be anything I could haul in a pick-up or small trailer: plow, mower, etc. Any thoughts?

Larry

Billy NY · Jun 19, 2013

I think a miniature gantry would suffice, I don't trust tree limbs so much, and of course make sure its strong enough, kind of a small thing for an engineer to calc, but...... you can probably get some idea of what would work in steel, look in some reference books for steel construction, or tables on the web for strength of steel shapes, handy thing to have, I'd make use of one of those here.

paul · Jun 19, 2013

Don't under build it, we all start out with small goals, and then ramp up....

Dad built 2 bridges across the ditch, when he had a pull type combine and Oliver 88 was his big tractor.

Couple years ago I watched the big coop fertilizer truck go across, loaded.

Glad dad over engineered things in his day.

Paul

Geo-TH,In · Jun 19, 2013

The man who built my garage in 1940 to work on semi's used a 10 inch I beam across the top with rollers. Welded them into 6 inch I-beams which are a part of the walls and ceiling supports. Hasn't moved in 73 years.

JD Seller · Jun 19, 2013

Have a friend that has one made out of a used electric pole and two trees with a V in them. It does not set the straightest but I have seen him change many car/truck engines under that "natural" bridge. LOL I would be afraid to even walk under it and he will work all day under it.

Until a few years ago he used an old hay rope and a snatch block to lift everything. Little Ford tractor on the rope. It did not have working brakes. He just killed it in gear. LMAO.

He broke the rope and then went to CHEAP China cable come-alongs. HE is a regular church memeber. I keep telling him he is going to try out his membership if he keeps it up.

Dick2 · Jun 19, 2013

We used to have a really big cottonwood three with several big branches in different directions. We used one limb for years to lift heavy things with a chain hoist hung from the limb.

Then we discovered rot in the crotch of the tree. Tied a cable to the limb and pulled with the HD7; that limb practically fell by itself as is was so rotten at the base.

After that we put up 2 large electric poles with a cross timber of three 2X12's to lift engines, especially off the back of the combines we had in those days.

johnw (OR) · Jun 19, 2013

I don't have a loader, have 3 point boom pole but some times to lazy to put it on so I use my HF engine hoist to unload things also makes a good hanger for painting plows, back half of Farmall A minus the tires.

John Niolon · Jun 19, 2013

one of these isn"t hard to throw together... check the scrap yard for the beam... I used 2.5" pipe for the uprights... the wheels are very useful too.

I've done 4000#s with this one with no strain...well.. the wheels did sink in a little

keh · Jun 19, 2013

Build what John N shows and you won't have to do it but once. Added advantage is that it's moveable.

KEH

Geo-TH,In · Jun 19, 2013

Where I live, single wide mobile home are a thing of the past, thanks to area planning. People with old trailers have only one choice, scrap them out because they can't move them. So find a person who scraps, get the 10 inch I-beams that make up the frame.

I have the frame from an old 65 footer. The old beams come in handy.
George

Charles (in GA) · Jun 19, 2013

You are looking for a "portable gantry crane". That is what John shows in the pic below. Great to have. Come in all sizes and designs. I bought mine from a guy in Sandusky, Ohio, who no longer needed it. drove all the way up from Atlanta to get it.

Charles

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