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Lol. I think my in-laws drilled the holes in the base plate. Let's just say they're not exactly...well...square.
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Drilled holes should be round, not square, so I think you are good!Lol. I think my in-laws drilled the holes in the base plate. Let's just say they're not exactly...well...square.
Prison or the looney bin, one or the other (T) !Drilled holes should be round, not square, so I think you are good!
My in-laws are in prison.
Didn't have time to mount the winch. I couldn't seem to stop picking things up with the new cylinder. This thing is great and well worth the money. Can't wait to get the winch installed. It'll probably be Saturday night before that happens.Sweet-chuck. We'll be waiting for load test results. No picking up in-laws allowed!
I'm about half way finished with the wireless winch install. I'll be doing some heavier picks this evening when I have this done. I'll get some more pictures with measurements up this evening or tomorrow.Can you post some pics and detail of the mounting and braces
Thanks. I got it while surplus picking. It's part of a Caterpillar transmission service kit the military was using. The kit came with a steel cart that weighed about 400# but he wanted way to much for the cart. It's never been used, I just need to clean the surface rust off the screw. The screw is Acme thread and the travel rollers have ball bearings. It's definately as nice as it looks.Nice load balancer, where did it come from?
Cliff notes...lol.*Yawn*. Crane looks great. Don't stand under any lifting mech. Have fun with it.
Been real busy but finally finished everything except paint. Had to remove the manual winch and move the electric winch lower to make things work. Here's some bracing pics as requested.
Used 6 bolts on the base plate that go through the bracing underneath. The middle bolt in the back is lined up inside the tail light box so I didn't use it. The front middle bolt goes through the bed but not the bracing. Mainly using it to secure the securing eye I added to keep everything from rattling around when not in use.
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In the middle picture you can see where I overlapped the support flange that is part of the rearmost support. In the last picture, the next support forward doesn't have a flange on the back side so I had to make one. Both ends of the braces are tied in to the bed supports.
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I used some leftover U-bolts from a 3500# 4wheeler winch to mount this one. They look dinky in the pictures but the size of the piece of angle makes it look like that. The winch is a Harbor Freight special. Ended up being about $65 after sale and coupons. It's comes with a wireless remote that I've really been enjoying. I'm running it off a spare Optima yellow top battery in a battery box I have in the bed. I haven't been able to kill the battery yet after multiple heavy lifts so I think this setup will meet my needs.
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