I have a zero turn mower that I wish to store in my shop. Not wanting to lose floor space I decided to build a support frame and hang it from the roof joist bottom chords. The mower weighs about 1500 pounds and the bottom chord is a 2 x 10 so I know it is strong enough. I have a 1 ton chain fall...
If you look at what you all have in your “attics“ and start adding up the weights of what you have there, you’ll be surprised at how much each truss is loaded with.
I plan to bolt a piece of angle iron across three of the trusses so each trust would only “see” about 600 pounds. This includes the...
I tried to start the motor but it's not one of those newer, 'compact' designs with less steel but couldn't spin it fast enough. I prolly could have used a pulley with a lawnmower-type pull rope but having it (I've used it for the last 10 years this way and I'm happy with it) 'hidden' behind the...
The spreader bar is because the two tiedown eyes I put on the back of the mower are located under/just behind the two plastic gas tanks and I do cannot have anything pressing against those plastic tanks for the long term storage.
It's a Hustler Zero mower is so you can look up pictures on the...
I have a new garage with a 12 foot ceiling and want to store my zero turn mower, weighing about 1500 Lbs in it this winter. My plan is to build a rectangle-shaped spreader bracket out of some 1-5/8 in.² tubing with 0.150 inch wall thickness.
The bracket will be a rectangle that is as long as...
I have a three-phase Bridgeport milling machine and hooked up a one horse motor to generate my own three phase. Since the Bridgeport is one and a half horsepower, my rotary converter was not big enough to run the mill properly, but since I was not pushing the mill to its capacity, it worked for...