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It works! Still gotta lot to do, but it works!

Definitely was a pain...

Lol near impossible welding.

Ok, got a new pto shaft built, and a new pto for the driver side including a geared spacer that moves it far enough away from the engine crossmember to make it useable for the front. I also cut and clearenced a carrier bearing crossmember then welded in a 3/4 plate and caps to massively...

Ok, had to flip the driver side back around, it was aimed at a crossmember... Maybe a adaptor in the future, or some other mods. Notched my crossmember for the shaft. Will reinforce the crossmember once I am certain the pto shaft will fit. Got all the pieces, now to go get it made, or make...

Mounted my new(used) pto, took a bit to get the spacer and gasket combo down for it to not be too tight, but not loose. 2 gaskets on each side and perfect fit. Humm, maybe I need a slightly thicker spacer, but just one extra gasket on each side of the spacer was perfect. I also flipped the...

Got a used pto that I believe to be a 97% of engine speed. Saved 500 bucks. That will be perfect for the crane. Midway for the gearing for the drag winch. Might be a good thing, keep me from overloading the cable. A 3/4 cable doesn't have a safe working load anywhere near 45000 in the Crane...

Can't find any pics carrying them. Think thats all video, can pull pics off that though lol. Humm no pics with porch finished?.... Anyways, this would have been way easier with the crane.

Thank you Doghead, it will be very useful to me. Ima almost 23 yr powerlifter and seems to always be lifting large items. Funny that Ima crane operator too, I pick things up, and put them down. Usefulness, oh heck yes. I built a raised concrete porch off my house. 3 in square tubing frame...

Yes, it was a very tight fit Crash, to dodge all the crossmembers. Prob haveta notch one crossmember for the pto shaft. I bolted it down with 20 1 inch grade 5 threaded rod. I still gotta fab up a brace for the 5 bolts on each side that supports the drag winch. The truck when I got it, was...

73, the truck has a heavy haul package on it. It was a propane hauler. It has a double frame, and the springs are about 2 inches from even touching the overloads. Tires look good, etc. I believe it will be fine. Pretty sure it would be fine with 3-4 thousand more. The rubber chart is...

Lol, got griped at to remove names.

NDT, I used our boom truck to haul it home and unload it lol. I had a job with it in my hometown the next day, and was on it when I bought it. Was meant to be. I think it looked alot better after I mounted it. I really like how it sets.

Thanks Crash. It has all the levers, most still attached, there is one that's attached to the splitter that needs to be connected to a additional lever, maybe it was originally in the cab. Then the throttle I will build a cable setup to the original lever. Etc. I found one pto with a 84%...

Thanks too Tim, I sure hope it all works when I'm done lol.

Tim, 1700 engine rpm, with a gearing reduction in the pto that would bring the rpm coming out of the pto to 11-1200 rpm. That way I have to rev it jus a little to get the same output rpm as stock on the 5ton. It will also allow me to have a little lower gearing to be closer to the 3rd gear...

Here's some pics.

Thank you very much 73m819. That's what I needed. I will prob. drop the gear reduction via chain and sprocket for the rear winch, to get a similar gearing as 3rd which is what the tag calls for, for heavy loads 5th for light loads. If 3rd is 1.79:1 and 5th is .78:1, I might get something that...

I wish I had found this forum two years ago. It's awesome. I have a question that I hope somebody finds simple. I am a crane operator by trade, local 627. I bought a 1970 refurbished in 89 xm-816 crane bed, no truck. I will shortly find the appropriate place and post pics and progress. I...

Still a good read. I will gather up some pics I have. Ima crane operator on a Grove 5120b All terrain. We have gotten several rigs including mine buried in jobsites and remote fields. My crane has 5 independent axles, 4 of which pull with inter axle locks and diff locks. When it's buried...