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?
>>2953122what you want is an engine hoist, see pic
>>2953124cherry pickers are even handier if you bolt the upright on pointing backwards and stack 10 sacks of concrete on the legs for counterbalance
>>2953124I'm effectively looking for a way/product/system that can go back and forth between one of these and a truck mount.
>>2953139its called a moffat forklift all the chingchong selfloading crane shaped objects on tickytock are toys with sub 200lb capacity
>>2953143There's nothing out there luggable and muscle-powered?
>>2953139I have oneIts an engine hoist that you can lift off the u-shaped foot and slide onto a round pivot point on the side of my trailerTadah, it rules
>>2953169Did you have to build the pivot point yourself, or did it come like that? What does it look like?
>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
>>2953165Manual 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.
>>2953177Nah, inhereted itThe 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 rotatingEasily buidlable, but i guess you just wanna buy some crap
>>2953122imagine if that crane was just attached to the truck
>>2953285Imagine if ure mum ololololololol
>>2953285op just needs to be the weder he wishes to see in life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1PYHXZhtA
>>2953346i think the weight at which it's genuinely useful it'll just tip the truck over
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.
>>2953122I 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
>>2953917ivan just pulls the outrigger leg and keeps jackinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDI_iDdhzw
>>2954047Based. 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.
>>2954197now do something that is big and inconvenient
>>2954340the 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 divehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llYRCPBnhE
>>2953139Weld a 2" receiver to it so you can just slot it into your trailer hitch
>>2954417is 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
>>2954340>now do something that is big and inconvenientThat'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.
>>2954430This is bitchin in a way I've never experienced until this moment
>>2953224those big joe die lifts are ok on mirror smooth flat concrete but an expansion joint is a tabk trap with a load onheres another variation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr9XxuL7KKI
>>2953122Funny you should ask, I found myself needing to do this very thing a couple weeks ago. I happened to have a few I beam stands and I beams lying around, so I bolted those suckers together and put a hitch receiver on there. Two options: you could either use a really long I beam so that your center of mass stays inside. Or what I opted for was make something more conveniently sized then counterweight the daylight out of it. This works for me since I have a lot of heavy objects in my garage, and in the future when I plan to use this for moving stones there will be no shortage of heavy rocks lying around to user as counterweight. I didn't have any great pictures of it, but I'll take a picture tomorrow before I put it back in the shed.
