I could have possibly made some on a lathe, but that seemed tricky. I'm not sure what a new pallet shelving system costs, but I'm guessing it's more than the $50 I paid.Įbay: I wanted commercially manufactured gantry crane wheels. I might have paid $100 for the pair, meaning I have about $50 in my main frame structure. ![]() I went there during the last days of the auction/sale and bought two pallet shelving systems. Industrial Office Store Closing Auction: A local big box office supply store was going out of business. It's good to be creative and explore alternatives places to get materials. I also happen to have a steel plant a few miles from my house that's friendly to individual buyers for what new material I had to buy. If you can afford all new materials from the steel yard, by all means go that route.but in my case.I went the "upcycle" (read: poor mans/junkyard) route and got my primary structural components from used materials. So, my starting point and build was largely dictated by materials and tools I could source cheaply and nearby, and material/tools I had on hand. In my case, I was trying to keep costs down for my gantry crane build. I strongly urge you to consider purchase of a commercially available unit unless you have adequate expertise to ensure safety.Īvailability of materials and how you source them can impact and dictate overall design.and it did for me. Please be EXTREMELY careful in any effort you make around building or operating a lifting device such as a gantry crane. Cranes are serious devices, and even without any weight on the system, one even toppling over, or a component falling could definitely kill you or someone else. ![]() Home-built systems should not be built or used without proper expertise, engineering principles/practice, knowledge and safe operation procedures. Even factory produced units can fail causing injury or death. SAFETY DISCLAIMER: Fabrication and subsequent operation of lifting devices such as overhead cranes, hoists, jacks, etc, are inherently dangerous. I hope this is helpful in your tool build whether your tool of choice is a gantry crane, a iron forge, or any other large-ish tool for your garage/barn/makerspace/sewing room. While you may source different parts requiring differing approaches, hopefully this Instructable encourages others to get out there and build stuff. As such, I have not included specific dimensions/etc for reproducing this build.rather I've tried to just show how you might approach a larger scale tool build for yourself, some techniques I used as well as mistakes I made. #Diy crane lift how to#My approach on this Instructable is less to prescriptively tell you how to build THIS crane, and more to just give Makers like yourselves ideas about how I approached my tool build, so that you as a Maker can formulate your own ideas for your specific tool build. I built it with a combination of used components and some laser cut steel to make a useful overhead crane I can roll around my garage and use to lift large and awkward things like truck beds or such, with no help required.īig shout-out to my friend MattJ who envisioned this build.the second he saw the shelving in my garage, he had the great idea to build one shelving system into a gantry crane.big thanks for the idea. In this Instructable, I'll share how I built a mobile gantry crane to lift things around my garage, lessons learned, and share some general project approaches I used to build this tool. Do you need to lift heavy things? Are you tired of all the work and the funny noises your back keeps making when you are lifting things? Are your friends tired of those calls on the weekend where you casually ask "hey, are you very busy?" and you "just need them to run over and help you lift won't take 10 minutes, but they end up there for 3 hours?".Do you need to take the bed off your truck so you can undercoat because they clearly undercoat cars at the factory with rust, and you just can't find anyone to help? YOU, MY FRIEND, NEED A GANTRY CRANE!!!
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