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Sage

02-12-2001 20:50:28




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Been looking at those little swiveling cranes that Northern sells for pickup trucks. I want to make a heavier duty one for the service truck. I've planned it out but just need some suggestions about the turntable. I am going to use a 3/16"" wall 4"x3" tubing for the support arm and the boom itself. Going to use a 8ton long ram jack for the cylinder and a heavy duty boat winch for the hoist. Have some ideas about the turntable, which will be manually turned. Will not be lifting more than 250-500 pounds at a 4' to 9' radius. Bumper on the truck is 2' long and very heavy duty where I am going to mount it, even though I will probably beef it up a little more and put an outrigger on it. Any suggestions about what would make the best turntable would be helpful,

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Shep

02-12-2001 21:11:05




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 Re: Turntable in reply to Sage, 02-12-2001 20:50:28  
I can see where this would be handy. I don't have the truck for one. An alternative to building your own or a place to get ideas would be your 'local' LP supplier. Round here they have 3 trucks with them and they use them to pickup and drop off the propane tanks.

Might be able to buy an outdated version as they must be 'up to code' otherwise unsafe for LP tanks. If not that I am sure you could get some good photos of the same. I will see what I can do here for photos (no digital camera tho) as I am in good with our LP supplier - I get all the old scap tanks and use them for various projects BBQ grill, smoker, etc. seed bed roller (hint, hint Burrhead)

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Sage

02-13-2001 17:20:32




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 Re: Re: Turntable in reply to Shep, 02-12-2001 21:11:05  
The brake band is a good idea. I had already thought about cutting off the rear axle of a used oneton backend. Seemed like the best thing to make a turntable out of.



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Franz

02-12-2001 23:31:39




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 Re: Re: Turntable in reply to Shep, 02-12-2001 21:11:05  
I've built a few of them, and used front spindles from pickup trucks for the turntable. I later modified them by putting a band brake around the hub section of the disk brake. The crane boom is bolted to the original wheel bolts, so the bearings can be serviced. I made the last two sort of plug in, basicly using a reese hitch type of system mounted verticly, so the crane can be removed.
I've picked enough weight to lift the front of an M-37 Dodge off the ground, and had no problem. If I have to lift something heavy, I now put a bumper jack under the crane pivot.

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Brian G.

02-13-2001 06:16:36




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 Re: Re: Re: Turntable in reply to Franz, 02-12-2001 23:31:39  
I have been thinking of this myself. I was thinking of cutting off a rear axle housing and installing a second wheel bearing on the inner end of the axle shaft. I like Franz' idea of a brake. With my idea, the brake drum could be left on and the parking brake mechanism could be used. Shep, you're right about the LP gas service trucks. They dropped a 100 gal. tank at my place with one of them. It had a remote control on it and I think it was electric/hydraulic. I have an electric screw off one of the old large satelite TV dishes that operates on 12 volts. That could be rigged to turn the lift almost 180 degrees.

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Franz

02-13-2001 09:36:28




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Turntable in reply to Brian G., 02-13-2001 06:16:36  
I don't know if I'd use the electric jack from a dish, it's only a modified trailer toung jack, and I'd be concerned it might not handle the stress. Re using a rear axel, if you used a full floating type hub, it already has 2 bearings, and would handle the stress very well. I like front stubs from pickup trucks cause they work very nicely. The band brake on the hub of the rotor was a modification I came up with to gain control on swinging loads, as well as provide a park feature to keep the boom from swinging and flopping going down the road. As far as electric hydrolic goes, I tried one with a cylinder on the boom and a remote snow plow pump. It lifted really well, but there was absolutely NO control on lowering the load, not real bad for lifting, but definitely too fast on lowering.

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Taylor Lambert

02-13-2001 17:44:50




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Turntable in reply to Franz, 02-13-2001 09:36:28  
I have one of those Auto Crane brand econo tons for my 1 ton truck. It doesnt have a cylinder but folds out then telescopes. I got it for 25 bucks at a rail road auction. Auto crane says it goes for 1200 new. It has electric winch and all that good stuff. Ive made all sorts of booms for trucks around here. I use a 4inch ID pipe for a base then weld a greaseable 3/4 inch plate on top that has a hole that slips over the top to make my bearing. Then I insert a a 4inch od pipe for my swivel for that bearing side i use an old chevy flywheel and leave the teeth on it. I mount a starter gear to a window motor unit and then i have power swing. Works good. under heavy usage the bearings in the motors last2 years but only cost 5 dollars.

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