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Anonymous No.2953122 [Report] >>2953124 >>2953285 >>2954017
Is there a good way to use one of these as a general purpose crane away from the truck, or some model that's made to do that? Some system designed to anchor and stabilize to either some second tripod or something in the environment?
Anonymous No.2953124 [Report] >>2953133 >>2953139
>>2953122 (OP)
what you want is an engine hoist, see pic
Anonymous No.2953133 [Report]
>>2953124
cherry pickers are even handier if you bolt the upright on pointing backwards and stack 10 sacks of concrete on the legs for counterbalance
Anonymous No.2953139 [Report] >>2953143 >>2953169 >>2954430
>>2953124
I'm effectively looking for a way/product/system that can go back and forth between one of these and a truck mount.
Anonymous No.2953143 [Report] >>2953165
>>2953139
its called a moffat forklift
all the chingchong selfloading crane shaped objects on tickytock are toys with sub 200lb capacity
Anonymous No.2953165 [Report] >>2953224
>>2953143
There's nothing out there luggable and muscle-powered?
Anonymous No.2953169 [Report] >>2953177
>>2953139
I have one

Its an engine hoist that you can lift off the u-shaped foot and slide onto a round pivot point on the side of my trailer

Tadah, it rules
Anonymous No.2953177 [Report] >>2953278
>>2953169
Did you have to build the pivot point yourself, or did it come like that? What does it look like?
Anonymous No.2953214 [Report]
>tripod mount
a stationary cherry picker would be about as useful as a 2nd asshole since they lift on a hellacious arc. doublyso because the capacity would be less than an ablebodied male can lift before a wimpy breakfast
Anonymous No.2953224 [Report]
>>2953165
Manual fork lifts are a thing. They aren't meant to be broken down but they can fit in the back of a pickup and I've never had a problem wrestling them into the bed.
Anonymous No.2953278 [Report]
>>2953177
Nah, inhereted it

The pillar on the crane is a square tube, the pivot point on the trailer is a round fitted cylinder that you grease, and on the floor foot its the same cylinder, but with two flt pieces of iron that keeps it from rotating

Easily buidlable, but i guess you just wanna buy some crap
Anonymous No.2953285 [Report] >>2953288 >>2953346
>>2953122 (OP)
imagine if that crane was just attached to the truck
Anonymous No.2953288 [Report]
>>2953285
Imagine if ure mum ololololololol
Anonymous No.2953346 [Report] >>2953917
>>2953285
op just needs to be the weder he wishes to see in life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1PYHXZhtA
Anonymous No.2953917 [Report] >>2954047
>>2953346
i think the weight at which it's genuinely useful it'll just tip the truck over
Anonymous No.2954005 [Report]
I built me from an engine hoist that slides in the receiver hitch and swivels around at the base. Allows me to lift engines or axles and load them onto my flatbed. It has some quirks as the other anon above said the radius of the arm means it can't reach out very far, but it's still better than blowing your back out. I've used it a few times to get heavy shit loaded from other places to drag home where I have proper lifting equipment. You better have a beefy as hell receiver hitch on your pickup (braced mine up well to the frame) and preferably a flatbed so you don't have to lift above the bed sides.
Anonymous No.2954017 [Report]
>>2953122 (OP)
I bought two of these and anchored them to my cement dock, use them to lift a canoe in and out of the water, works pretty well
Anonymous No.2954047 [Report] >>2954197
>>2953917
ivan just pulls the outrigger leg and keeps jacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDI_iDdhzw
Anonymous No.2954197 [Report] >>2954340
>>2954047
Based. Thing looks like it was about at its limits with 1000kg on there. Props to that dude for gettin it done though. Looks like a well thought out and intelligent design.
Anonymous No.2954340 [Report] >>2954417 >>2954575
>>2954197
now do something that is big and inconvenient
Anonymous No.2954417 [Report] >>2954519
>>2954340
the op never even hinted at the intended purpose yet you still manage to attempt to move the goalposts
gin poles are the choice of the discerning man with hair on his chest. pick and place anywhere your pickup will dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llYRCPBnhE
Anonymous No.2954430 [Report]
>>2953139
Weld a 2" receiver to it so you can just slot it into your trailer hitch
Anonymous No.2954519 [Report]
>>2954417
is the intended purpose not to haul things as big as the bed or even slightly bigger lets see it pick up 1000kg at twice the arm length to pick up a big piano or something when it dangles and swings and the thing risks bumping against the piston hindering the turning of the crank
how much do these small trucks carry anyway i think it barely reaches 1500kgs on the good ones and how much of that weight is eaten by the crane
who the hell cares about some boomers tow truck
Anonymous No.2954575 [Report]
>>2954340
>now do something that is big and inconvenient
That's what I have loaders, forklifts, a telehandler, and actual crane trucks for... So no I don't think I will. I can see how normies might find it useful for certain scenarios though.