It wouldn’t take much weight to make the front end come off the ground. A friend made a rear crane on an ICE tractor and that was his result 🙁.
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> On Jan 6, 2024, at 10:15 PM, Chris Zach via Elec-trak <elec-trak@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
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> Over the fall I did a fair bit of logging with the E20 and chainsaw. And as I get older I get tired of lifting big logs into the trailer.
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> It's time for a crane.
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> Anyone ever thought of one of these as an E20 attachment. My first thought is I can build one that hangs off the back of the E20.
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> Attach a boom (4 feet long say) to the tiller bar as a base pivot point.
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> Then use the rear powered lift strapped in such a way that it goes in the stab slots, and connects the lift strap to the middle of the boom (straight out and parallel to the ground).
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> Use a front lift mechanism attached to the boom itself to wind and unwind a cable that goes up the boom, over a pulley, and to a hook.
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> That way I can raise and lower the boom with the rear lift motor, and raise/lower the hook with a normal lift mechanism. Forces would be against the tiller bar (very heavy) and the lift mechanism/stab slots (which already can easily lift the tiller.
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> Thoughts? I'm building a few models with my FischerTechnics, and will use that to see what some of the forces would be like. Goal is to lift a 100-200 pound log into a waiting trailer pulled by my E15 so it doesn't have to swivel much or survive a heavy load dangling as I drive.
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> Hm....
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> C
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