Recent content by reidry

Great to see this from SK!

I spent a good portion of the day hunting one of these, travelling to local stores and calling stores within 3 hours of me. Doesn't seem to be any left in Florida. Could really use one, heck I'd pay a finders fee if someone can get me one for the clearance price! Ryan

I’m looking to add a bench shear (also known as a hand shear or plate shear) to my shop. Primarily for 18 gauge and lighter steel and aluminum sheet and some 11 gauge 2” wide steel bar. Here is an old thread, but it doesn’t really come to a conclusion...

Thanks to Matt_I for pointing out the gear ratio and everyone else for all the good information. Thanks to marinusdees for introducing me to OfferUp. I found one seller with two Coffing LHH hoists on OfferUp. Mid-2000s manufacture and both in excellent condition, the 1 Ton looks near new...

I've been hunting, found a CM 622 (also a 3 Ton) in a nearby town - then I checked the country of origin. Seems CM imports these, they are made overseas to their specifications. Well I hoped it would be Japan or European .. a little sleuthing on eBay and looking for the fine print on the back...

As noted above, I own some pretty heavy iron. Pretty common for me to drag something home that weighs more than 1 ton. The trusses in my shop are 24', 24" on center. I've spread the load across several for other, heavier lifts in the past. The actual lifting span will only be 18' as I have...

I have a 1 1/2 ton lever hoist and a small come-a-long and my trailer has a winch. Just need something a bit quicker for vertical lifts, especially once I get a gantry crane built. As to the free hanging chain, can't I suspend a bucket from the truss to catch the tail? Ryan

I probably should have mentioned a few other things in my original post. I already have a 1 1/2 ton lever hoist, the lever hoists are just too slow to lift a beam 7 feet, let alone the 8 beams I need to lift. This is also just phase one of my loft, later I'll be adding mezzanines down the...

The reviews on the Harbor Freight hoists seem to indicate that the load rating is overstated and recommend derating by 50%. Seems so strange as I thought that the load testing requirements were 2x the rating. The quality of stuff coming from China varies widely. Solely based on the cost of...

I am in the process of putting a loft in my workshop. The engineered beams are too heavy sand awkward to be placed by hand. I am thinking a chain hoist (aka a chain fall) attached to the roof truss structure (multiple wood trusses and some bracing) would be the ticket for these ~200 lb beams...