Recent content by 82elky

The hitch mounted crane also seems like a decent idea on paper, but I suspected it may not be awesome in real life with loads that are more than a couple hundred pounds. This is good feedback. Daedalus, Please let us know how it works once you get a chance to try it out better.

As much as I want to have a truck mounted crane, I’m starting to think the cherry picker is the most sensible solution. I like the overhead trolley idea, and may revisit it later depending on the frequency of use. I think a folding cherry picker can be lifted into the bed without any...

I’m needing a crane on my long bed f250 to be able to load engines. I’d like some feedback how well these bed mouned cranes work for that. Almost all of them are a bit on the short side, which I suspect will cause issues with clearing the tailgate. Of course, the tailgate can be removed or I...

Refuse and JSK, Bolts being wrong is relatively easy fix, hopefully by digging in the bolt bins at home. I didn't check location, but studs, nuts and flat washers might work better in this case. This should be an easy change for the manufacturer. That being said, I know these kind of things...

Bruce, For me, it took them a day or two to check with a manager to get the price sorted out. But they did honor the $2500 for the GP7. I'm not an electrical expert, but I don't think there's much difference with feeding the motor with 220 or 240V. These are less than 10% apart.

If you don't have a forklift at home, have the lift trucked to a trucking terminal nearby. We picked it up with an 18 foot flatbed trailer. They have forklifts at the terminal so loading on the trailer is easy. To unload, we used an jack to lift up the front end so that vehicle rollers with 4...

I got a GP7. Filled out the online form. Got a callback some days later - I think it was a weekend and holiday so it wasn't unreasonably long. There was whining about the price and the sales guy was pushing retail prices. He said he'd check with his manager. He called back in a day or two...

I think this lift should not go to just one man, but to someone who will let others use it too. Obviously, some kind of non-profit, or even a school, that helps teach kids/people to work on cars would be more deserving than even a deserving single user.