Re: (ET) Time to build a crane

[Mike Finck <mikefinck rocketmail com>]

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:
> 
> 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.
> 
> It's time for a crane.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Attach a boom (4 feet long say) to the tiller bar as a base pivot point.
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Hm....
> 
> C
> 
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