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If You have built a Gantry crane show us your pics.
I am getting ready to build one so the pics will follow soon.
As time allows.

Dave J built a very smart one http://www.metalworkingfun.com/showthread.php?tid=389


DaveH

That isn't a gantry crane Dave, but I believe he is building one now (or at least planning one).

This is a picture of a gantry crane. My brother has one to pull engines out of cars.

Ed

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Ed, a constructive guy would also use it to put engines back into cars. But, hey, it's your bro.

(08-18-2013, 05:47 PM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]Ed, a constructive guy would also use it to put engines back into cars. But, hey, it's your bro.

OK wise ass, point taken.

Ed

He might work in a wrecking yard only pulling engines ? LOL

Dave

I have one here but it's rough, a mate made it to lift a dual cab off a 4wd but it works fine lifting one ton.

Dave

Not quite a gantry crane but close.

http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads...post430924

This is the one that I have been sort of designing one around.

The only hitch so far is that my driveway/parking lot is sloped about 3 feet over its length, so gravity tends to have an impct on anything that I attempt to do in the lifting aspect.

Walter