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You're still losing way less height than the same capacity jib because the beams are lighter for a given capacity/area.
I've still got to put mine together as well. Its just going to be a pain to mount because the trolleys are so heavy, ill need to build some sort of rigging attachment for the forklift. I think it's a 15t. I'll be low on headroom but its only for plate handling between machines and pallets.
Now that we have fully hi-jacked the thread LOL
Watch that video of those dudes dropping that gantry to get primed up on what not to do.
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Fail, I can't find it at the moment.
Can't shift things around? The doors and airlines should be no biggy...just the lift would be a challenge but I'd assume you could clear above it if the bridge was mounted high enough?
Luck and FOPS is my guess.
I think that would be the long way around by quite a bit. Air and electric to both lift posts. I'd have to measure but the lift is probably too tall. 2 14' door tracks that are attached to the trusses. I don't see how you could pass them.
I have a backhoe and a track hoe that can lift pretty heavy. They aren't very handy for indoor lifting. Seems way easier to have a crane of some sort to move parts around.
I have the HF rolling gantry because it came with the shop. I also have a 6k forklift, small tractor and a pallet jack. I haven't used the gantry once. Just about anything I need to move around the shop can get put on a pallet or skid and rolled around with the pallet jack if it's going somewhere I can't get the forklift.
I dunno man. I don't really want to fire up the Hough every time I gotta sling a 160lb transmission around. Being able to just hang that shit from the ceiling without putting a ton of short operating cycles on an engine is worth something.
You'd have to switch to roll ups and trench for air/electric.
Buy door track parts. Cut and splice to run them up high against the truss instead of hanging out in crane space. Reroute the air and electric.
If I could back a 1-ton flatebed truck into the area served by the crane I would think long and hard about it. There's a lot of shit that's a 2-man job with the fork lift and a 1-man job when you have a crane with an up/down button. They're different tools for different jobs but for what I do the crane would be tits.But would you trade your forklift for a crane? That's the point I was making. I'd get more use of a forklift and it'd be the first thing I'd buy. If I could really justify a jib or overhead, that'd be second.
I'm sure my rolling gantry could be useful, but it's a pain to move out of it's storage spot and I haven't found the need for it in the year that I've been here.....but I also know if I sell it I'll immediately need it.
You just need a wireless remote to control the up/down of the forklift.
I've seriously considered doing this to a telehandler to make a 1-man tree trimming platform. I sure I'd kill myself or worse, but it'd be sweet if it worked. Easy on those machines since they already have electronic valves. Older forklifts....you'd have to replace all the old analog valves or do some crazy servo shit to actuate the levers.You just need a wireless remote to control the up/down of the forklift.
