lodgepole crane for lifting heavy stuff

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I seem to remember seeing a truck with a couple of lodge poles mounted on the front. Somehow, this sort of thing was used as a makeshift crane.

Is there something on the net about making your own short term cranes? I have a couple of projects I'm thinking of doing in stone and if I can rig up a sort of crane to lift big rocks onto my trailer and where I want them to go, I can use bigger rocks - and that would be cool.

-- Paul Wheaton (paul@javaranch.com), April 01, 2001

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Hours of web searching finally paid off. What I was looking for was "gin poles". Looks like the army has some good pdf files available on-line about it. I guess it's so they can build bridges and stuff.

-- Paul Wheaton (paul@javaranch.com), April 01, 2001.

Paul, could you post the link?? We have some stone projects also this year and yes, bigger would be better. Thanks.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 01, 2001.

See these two links:

http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/5-125/ch5.pdf

http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/5-125/ch3.pdf

-- Paul Wheaton (paul@javaranch.com), April 01, 2001.


Thanks Paul-I think the tripod would work for me to lift onto our stone boat. Portable enough to move from stone pile to where I want to place my stone. Thanks - good luck on your project. What you planning on doing??

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 02, 2001.

Raised bed garden to start. Maybe a little stone bridge later.

-- Paul Wheaton (paul@javaranch.com), April 02, 2001.


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