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MF1045 · Mar 24, 2016

Electric loader boom hoist 23' lift

Luke'sScreenName · Mar 24, 2016

I would get myself into trouble in a hurry with that. :thumbsup:

IslandTractor · Mar 24, 2016

MF1045 said:
Electric loader boom hoist 23' lift
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Nice design and execution.

cqaigy2 · Mar 25, 2016

Very nice. That's probably how i would do it, except it wouldn't look so nice, or have such high quality metal parts or be that well designed....:thumbsup:

MF1045 · Mar 25, 2016

Yea if you already have forks straps and a winch it's cheap to build. just a 4x4 some steel angle and a wheel barrow wheel. Winch is waaaay overkill but it worked to set my trusses on 10' walls.

IslandTractor · Mar 25, 2016

MF1045 said:
Yea if you already have forks straps and a winch it's cheap to build. just a 4x4 some steel angle and a wheel barrow wheel. Winch is waaaay overkill but it worked to set my trusses on 10' walls.

Winch might be necessary to do with with a loader that lifts less than yours. That's quite a lever arm. I'm pretty sure that no loader with only 1000lbs or so of lift would have an easy time of raising those trusses.

lennyzx11 · Mar 25, 2016

IslandTractor said:
Winch might be necessary to do with with a loader that lifts less than yours. That's quite a lever arm. I'm pretty sure that no loader with only 1000lbs or so of lift would have an easy time of raising those trusses.

I like it. Two things come to mind.

What stops it from being "flipped" back on the tractor operator if a push comes from the front?

I don't know this I'm wondering if the loader is loaded with more weight than its relief pressure is set for, would it bypass and drop the loader suddenly?

MF1045 · Mar 25, 2016

trusses were 190lb. Even at that length if the boom was maintained at 15 deg or so off vert it had no problems lifting them. Just cant go too low with it. As for it flopping backwards, Self Preservation is the only thing that prevents that.

lennyzx11 · Mar 25, 2016

MF1045 said:
trusses were 190lb. Even at that length if the boom was maintained at 15 deg or so off vert it had no problems lifting them. Just cant go too low with it. As for it flopping backwards, Self Preservation is the only thing that prevents that.

Yeah I knew the weight is well within your safety and really like the idea. I think the boom piece under the bucket stops that flip back after I looked close and as you said the angle is key.

What I'm wondering is if that winch picked up more than our 1000-1500 lbs what the loader would do.

Absolutely not dissing this. It's in my need one of these pile! Just a "wonder what happens when I do this" question. Whether the loader system would check valve stop or bypass relief drop random question.

MF1045 · Mar 25, 2016

lennyzx11 said:
Yeah I knew the weight is well within your safety and really like the idea. I think the boom piece under the bucket stops that flip back after I looked close and as you said the angle is key.

What I'm wondering is if that winch picked up more than our 1000-1500 lbs what the loader would do.

Absolutely not dissing this. It's in my need one of these pile! Just a "wonder what happens when I do this" question. Whether the loader system would check valve stop or bypass relief drop random question.

It absolutely would. If the tractor didn't nose first. Thats an 11,000 lb winch. A 1500lb atv winch would be much better suited for this, but it's what I had.