Capricious
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Yet another homemade ("shop fabricated") boom.
Needed a boom for my old Mitsubishi:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/mitsubishi-satoh/316342-mt160d.html
Did not want to spend $129.99 plus sales tax on a new one; saw several used booms advertised @ about $50 to $75 but either sold too quickly, or were located such a long distance away that the fuel cost to go get the thing would have eaten-up most of the savings.
I had an 11 foot piece of 2" by 3" by 3/16" rectangular tubing that had been laying around the yard for more than a decade, so decided to turn that into a boom. Spent $22.00 on some "drop offs" at the steel yard (did not use all of it on this project) plus spent about 8 bucks on gen-u-wine hitch pins for the lower arms.
The braces are lightweight steel angle from an old bed frame; the mounting plates for the pins for the lower arms are 3/8" by 3" flat bar. I torch-cut the 1" holes for the pins with my recently acquired acetylene torch:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/welding/318494-old-tanks.html
The plates for the top link are 1/4" by 5" I also torch-cut the holes in these, but since these would have a removable pin in them, I cut some sections of pipe and welded these into the torch-cut holes for bushings (something I read about on this site.)
The end of the boom has a piece of 1/4" by 2' flat bar with a hole drilled in the lower end for a hook, and a slot cut on the upper end to hold chain.
I might throw a coat of paint on it this coming weekend, and next weekend hope to use it on it's first real project; removing the bed from my Ranger pickup truck.
The truck was hit from the rear and the ends of the frame rails are badly buckled. While I am driving it almost every day, I can't tow a trailer with the trailer hitch
pointing at the ground:
Will remove the bed and replace the rears of the frame rails with pieces sold for the purpose of repairing Rangers with rusted frames.
Needed a boom for my old Mitsubishi:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/mitsubishi-satoh/316342-mt160d.html
Did not want to spend $129.99 plus sales tax on a new one; saw several used booms advertised @ about $50 to $75 but either sold too quickly, or were located such a long distance away that the fuel cost to go get the thing would have eaten-up most of the savings.
I had an 11 foot piece of 2" by 3" by 3/16" rectangular tubing that had been laying around the yard for more than a decade, so decided to turn that into a boom. Spent $22.00 on some "drop offs" at the steel yard (did not use all of it on this project) plus spent about 8 bucks on gen-u-wine hitch pins for the lower arms.
The braces are lightweight steel angle from an old bed frame; the mounting plates for the pins for the lower arms are 3/8" by 3" flat bar. I torch-cut the 1" holes for the pins with my recently acquired acetylene torch:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/welding/318494-old-tanks.html
The plates for the top link are 1/4" by 5" I also torch-cut the holes in these, but since these would have a removable pin in them, I cut some sections of pipe and welded these into the torch-cut holes for bushings (something I read about on this site.)
The end of the boom has a piece of 1/4" by 2' flat bar with a hole drilled in the lower end for a hook, and a slot cut on the upper end to hold chain.
I might throw a coat of paint on it this coming weekend, and next weekend hope to use it on it's first real project; removing the bed from my Ranger pickup truck.
The truck was hit from the rear and the ends of the frame rails are badly buckled. While I am driving it almost every day, I can't tow a trailer with the trailer hitch
pointing at the ground:
Will remove the bed and replace the rears of the frame rails with pieces sold for the purpose of repairing Rangers with rusted frames.