My solution for handling big trusses

[willymakeit]

Vertical jib. Great idea. Will steal for a later project, then I can look smart too.

 

[robertlynk]

Here is my lift I made to move horse corral panels by my self. When I built the steel building I used it to install the girders and roof purlins

 

[southernfriedcj]

I built a 40 X 60 garage will very little help. here is what I came up with to handle the trusses, half of which were scissor. They were 40' with a 18" overhang each side. Everyone was lifted with just me and the tractor. The brackets are bolted to both the bottom and the top of the bucket with brackets. Made a difficult job easy, without renting a boom truck

Great idea!

Any chance you could post a few pics of the attachment to the bucket?

Thanks!

 

[holdover]

sothern friedcj,
tractor is at my sons house, but the connection is easy to explain. I used 2 X 4 channel for the uprights, I stood them in the bucket, with the bottom part of the bucket level with the ground, at the bottom I welded a piece of 2X4 channel that the upright sat in , it is about 12" long, drilled 2- 1/2" holes in the channel on either side and through my sons new bucket, and used grade 8 bolts about 1 1/2" long with washers on both sides. The top of the bucket has a rolled edge which worked perfect for the top attachment. Again used a piece of channel 12" long(each side has one) layed on top of the rolled edge and welded to the upright, drilled and bolted with 1/2" grade 8 bolts to the bucket. The bucket is 1/4" steel. Notice about 4' from the top there is a cross brace. This is bolted to pices of channel welded to the side rails, this way everything comes apart for storage and movement to other sites. This really works great, and BTW the holes in the bottom of the bucket have worked great for drainage.

 

[Chitown_hillbilly]

Nice!!! Now what's your solution to not having a sweet tractor like that... lol.

 

[southernfriedcj]

sothern friedcj,
tractor is at my sons house, but the connection is easy to explain. I used 2 X 4 channel for the uprights, I stood them in the bucket, with the bottom part of the bucket level with the ground, at the bottom I welded a piece of 2X4 channel that the upright sat in , it is about 12" long, drilled 2- 1/2" holes in the channel on either side and through my sons new bucket, and used grade 8 bolts about 1 1/2" long with washers on both sides. The top of the bucket has a rolled edge which worked perfect for the top attachment. Again used a piece of channel 12" long(each side has one) layed on top of the rolled edge and welded to the upright, drilled and bolted with 1/2" grade 8 bolts to the bucket. The bucket is 1/4" steel. Notice about 4' from the top there is a cross brace. This is bolted to pices of channel welded to the side rails, this way everything comes apart for storage and movement to other sites. This really works great, and BTW the holes in the bottom of the bucket have worked great for drainage.

Thanks!

I have a couple old step van frames laying around, I'll cut them up and use the channel.

 

[atfulldraw]

that is slicker than a minnow lip.

 

[bwane]

great thread! What do you guys suggest to get 17 foot long sheets of metal 18 feet up to the roof?

 

[sberry]

Those are so light the way you have them rigged is fine.

 

[holdover]

Chitown Hillbilly
"Nice!!! Now what's your solution to not having a sweet tractor like that... lol."

A good trailer to haul it! Honestly would like to have one here to make things easier, especially with snow in winter. Retirement means twice the time and half the money, so it is one of those things that will have to work into the budget, BUT that 0% financing is awful attractive, and a tractor with a bucket is one thing my wife would like to have also So we'll see..

 

[DekeT]

You could eliminate the bucket with the quick attach brackets on that tractor. Could lift more or use less ballast.

 

[Shadowdog500]

Here is my lift I made to move horse corral panels by my self. When I built the steel building I used it to install the girders and roof purlins

Morton uses the same setup to install thier A-frames. They also put a hydraulic ram on the arm to get more extension for taller buildings. Thier tractors are highly modified just to put up pole barns.

Chris

 

[southernfriedcj]

great thread! What do you guys suggest to get 17 foot long sheets of metal 18 feet up to the roof?

Have someone hand it up or build a leaning rack with a cross member(basically a scaffold made of 2x4's leaned to the wall) a few feet off the ground and stack a few on there and then go to the roof and pull them up.

 

[sberry]

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