Anyone find a good use for a retired engine hoist?

[quika]

I have stopped working on cars but hate to get rid of good tools. Any other reason to keep this beast around?

 

[GoodoleBoy]

Ive seen alot of guys use them to load things in their pickup..

 

[rslaback]

They work great for picking up the fully decorated Christmas tree to cut off the bottom after the tree stand goes dry.

 

[jhelrey]

HaHa

 

[Larwyn]

I have used mine to load/unload the truck, assemble a heavy drill press, pulled up about a dozen boxwood shrubs, and to hold and or reposition welding projects. I have never pulled an engine with it and hope I never have too, I'm too old for that kind of work anymore. As my back gets older I find more and more uses for both it and my hydraulic scissor lift table.

 

[purplezr2]

Is that lego train track around that tree

 

[slip knot]

My BIL made an adapter for his to hang/hold drywall on the ceiling. Worked really well too. Butthead wont let me use it tho!

 

[c39er]

My brother used his BlueBird engine hoist also for lifting sheetrock. Made a special rack for the boom of the hoist. Worked out well.

 

[RVDan]

I haven't used mine to lift an engine for years, I use it to load and unload heavy things from my truck, move heavy things around like workbenches and tablesaws, and I used to use it to lift my motorcyle onto a work table

 

[Outlawmws]

Mine was once used to lift a Bridgeport mill, and I used it to unload my lathe when I brought it home...

 

[DIC]

I use mine working on or cleaning lawn tractor ...or to move heavy stuff around in the shop, pulled up some fence post too

 

[plung]

Use it to keep an eye on your infant while wrenching in the garage or in the driveway.

 

[58Yeoman]

I used mine to lift up the front of the '41 Pontiac body with an air jack at the rear, so I could get the frame out...but that's more mechanic work. I've also used it for lifting stuff up that was too heavy to lift by hand.

 

[Outlander]

I was considering one to lift my ATV for repair. Then again, I look for a reason to buy every tool I don't already have one of.

 

[mgh]

Even thou I still use mine for working on cars, it does have multi ueses.

Intalling built in storage shelves and full pull storage draws

Still doing car work duty, but with a twist.

 

[RECox286]

When I was offered a 400# brake lathe, my homebuilt engine

hoist went with me to where it was, and then helped out when

I got home for the delivery too. Bestest piece of shop

equipment I have built to date.

Uncle Bob

 

[Busted_Knuckles]

Ive seen the bottom horizontal "H" used as a "dead man" for holding up "arms" or buckets, or large objects on construction equipment. Basically, you put the "H" bottom platform vertical, to hold something up, while you brake a hydraulic line, or what ever. Feet would needed to be added. I saw this done on another forum.

I guess your could call it a pretty tall "jack stand".

 

[PRH44]

Even thou I still use mine for working on cars, it does have multi ueses.

Intalling built in storage shelves and full pull storage draws

Still doing car work duty, but with a twist.

Its like having a personal robot, good ideas

 

[TruckJunkie]

I have used mine for many heavy objects over the years, used it to place a soapstone woodstove in the living room, have moved two Bridgeports, two lathes, two surface grinders and yesterday a two post automotive hoist with it. Have hung deer from it, used it to remove/install winches on trucks and load/unload many misc heavy objects from truck beds. Definitely one of the best tool purchases I have ever made.

 

[machine_punk]

I built a custom spreader beam, to lift my new combo machine, which weighs in at about 1200 pounds...

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[Sureshot]

Save it to lift you out of the tub when you are too old to climb out on your own. Or too drunk in the mean time.

 

[toolman1967]

Drywall lift and a great tool to clean deer with.

 

[rockchucker]

Even thou I still use mine for working on cars, it does have multi ueses.

Intalling built in storage shelves and full pull storage draws


Still doing car work duty, but with a twist.

Hmmmm...I KNEW that garage, Wheels, Subframe and other things looked familiar!!!

 

[Doozer]

I use mine to get stuff in and out of the truck. And I have used it to hold my lawnmower up in the air too.

 

[IndyGarage]

I use mine for all kinds of similar things.

I have a picture somewhere of a modificaton - I think I got it off the miller welding project site but I can't find it... Maybe it was here - where a guy built a small removable platform or table for the end of the engine hoist boom and used a car suspension type linkage with some 3/4 steel tubing running parallel to the beam to keep the table horizontal as the boom was lifted and lowered. I'm not describing it well - sort of like a floor jack pad stays horizontal as you raise and lower it.

It was pretty ingenious and didn't seem to detract from the original usage of the lift at all.

A table that can pick up 1000 lbs from near the floor and raise it 6 or 7 feet high is pretty valuable. I had an idea to make a couple different table options so you could lift all kinds of things.

A friend actually adapted a shop crane with a vertical extension and a couple of leg extensions plus a boat winch and used it to lift his roof trusses into place when he built a pole barn many years ago. It wasn't a really tall building, otherwise I think he would have had a pretty large tipping danger. It worked great.

 

[toolman1967]

Oh Yeah, I bolted a crossbar to it and used it to lift off the roof from my Bronco and store it. That was a great help, that Bronco roof is kinda heavy.

 

[Cougar67]

Oh Yeah, I bolted a crossbar to it and used it to lift off the roof from my Bronco and store it. That was a great help, that Bronco roof is kinda heavy.

I would love to see a picture of that set up. I've been thinking about doing the same.

 

[srmofo]

Ive pulled old fence posts and several clothes line poles out with them. Seems every home in the dayton area had a clothes line at some point and time. No pics though

Keep it around they're handy to move stuff, load stuff, and hang stuff.....or sell it to me, mine is no longer with us

 

[Jeff Ivers]

I've used mine to tilt a landscaping rock (5'x4'x1') into place. Also to pull a fence post set in concrete out of the ground with the concrete.

 

[Brad54]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has used it to clean deer!

I've used my engine hoist several dozen times over the last several years... and I think one of those times was to lift an engine.

-Brad