Name This Tool!!
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ToadHill
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We had something like it on the farm I worked on as a kid except it had pointed tips on the bottom. It was used to pick up hay bales and winch them into the hay mow where it would ride down the rail to one end of the barn and trip, dropping the bales for me to stack.
jimmyj
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Why it's a lifter-upper of some sort. Don't know what it is supposed to lift though.
Ductape
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Flip it upside down, hang it from that 'I' beam in your shop. Hook a come-along or chain fall on the chain to lift heavy items and move them from one side of the shop to the other.
mfreund
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I beam carrier. You lift the chain then use the rollers to balance the beam as you move into place
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The way my jaw feels, I think it's the tool that my sadistic dentist used to pull my teeth last week.
RobS
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Too lightly built for an I-beam carrier or even a sling under an I-beam. Maybe a stock holder to work with a saw of some sort. Not height adjustable though. Hmmm...
DanD78
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I may be wrong but I think it is used to lift dual wheels on and off of large farm tractors. The rollers allow you to move the wheel enough to get bolts started.
Dan
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Looks a little light for that, I don't think it is made to lift more than 2-300#. The top chain looks to be 3/16" G30 welded link chain which IIRC has a WLL of 400# and the arms look pretty flimsy.
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bobzap
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I like the WHEELIFTERSPINNERHOLDERTIRECHANGER device the best! That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!
Farmwithjunk
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Bingo!
OP
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Sorry I didn't get back sooner, yes Dan and FWJ named it correctly.
I had inquired on another site about them but nobody seemed to know much about it or had never used one. When it arrived I wasn't sure it could lift much, let alone a ton.
I wished I would have had the camera when we added the two tires, it was a slick operation. I operated the FEL, a friend attached the tire changer to the tire, I drove the loader tractor to the 1066 with the wheel hanging there and he manuevered it into place, spun the tire so the holes would line up and put the studs in. Each tire took about 10 minutes for the entire process. I'm guessing each tire with rims and fluid might have weighed 850 lbs, but that is just a guess. There was no heavy lifting or straining to get the tire in place.
My friend, a life time farmer, was impressed. He was sure it was not going to work but when we were finished he said, "Darn, that thing did the job, didn't it!".
I had inquired on another site about them but nobody seemed to know much about it or had never used one. When it arrived I wasn't sure it could lift much, let alone a ton.
I wished I would have had the camera when we added the two tires, it was a slick operation. I operated the FEL, a friend attached the tire changer to the tire, I drove the loader tractor to the 1066 with the wheel hanging there and he manuevered it into place, spun the tire so the holes would line up and put the studs in. Each tire took about 10 minutes for the entire process. I'm guessing each tire with rims and fluid might have weighed 850 lbs, but that is just a guess. There was no heavy lifting or straining to get the tire in place.
My friend, a life time farmer, was impressed. He was sure it was not going to work but when we were finished he said, "Darn, that thing did the job, didn't it!".
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Should have mentioned that the correct name is Bierman EZ Dual Tire Changer. He has a web site with a neat video of a man changing some tires close to the size of the ones we were fooling with. I paid about $345 plus shipping for it and I think, since using it, well worth the money.
Last fall I tried to get a local tractor tire seller to put on the duals, he took one look at the tractor and told me it wasn't worth the money for him to fool with it.
Last fall I tried to get a local tractor tire seller to put on the duals, he took one look at the tractor and told me it wasn't worth the money for him to fool with it.
JB4310
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I guess that's the right answer, I was gonna say that it looked home brewed, some kind of light duty beam trolley.
EZ Dual Changer | Bierman Sales LLC :: 712.324.1930
Still it looks light duty for some of those large wheels, especially the chains.
JB.
EZ Dual Changer | Bierman Sales LLC :: 712.324.1930
Still it looks light duty for some of those large wheels, especially the chains.
JB.
schmism
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i think the pic makes the scale misleading. I have a feeling its like 1/4x4" alumimum channel. per the website those are 5" wheels on the bottom. So the idea that its 5/16 or 3/8 chain on the top would be right.
