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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...

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...