Overhead hoist advice

[jbird5986]

Hello all I am currently building my first hopefully last home shop and I am trying to get everything that I been thinking about for 40 years and it’s getting expensive.Its a 24x36 and I want overhead hoist in as much as possible I know I beams with trolley is ideal but I could build another shop for price of steel I would like to comfortably lift 1000 pounds the shop is built as follows 6x6 posts every 12 feet with metal trusses every 12 feet.I know the engineers in here are gonna think I’m crazy for suggesting this but what if I run a overhead hoist of a steel cable in the same way you would use 3 I beams just a suggestion but I’m getting pretty desperate thanks.

 

[tarmy]

Welp, you got options.

Safety should be one of them. 1000 lbs. moving around in the air or near you or other stuff is something to take seriously. I bought 2 10’ 4x4 I beam drops for a decent price…just gotta be patient.

When I built mine shop/garage I designed and had built the appropriate structure to handle my future (like 5 years later) installation of the beam. I welded up the base brackets and I installed them before the ceiling drywall went in. Marked everything and came back later and bolted in the beam. I know you are saying you are not doing the I beam…here is what I built and like. I still am nervous when a load is up and moving along that beam…

 

[wssix99]

Can you use an engine hoist for your work? $200 will get you a 2 ton model, which extends out to hoist 1000 lb. pretty high off the ground. I recall mine lifts around 7 feet at that weight.

 

[cannuck]

I make my own overhead cranes using regular winches, so no way they meet anyone's safety requirements, but these are something I have been using in several locations for decades. Yes, eventually the brakes in the winches wear and you have to replace them, and no: the so-called pulling rating of the winches (from ANY source) are not in any way realistic. I have one in my storage shelter on my farm that is 20 x 40 that I rate at 600 Kg (1,300 lbs). It uses a 2,000 lb. ATV winch with a 2:1 block. I also have an electronic load gauge and do NOT lift something up near limit without measuring. Pick of the trolley below,. It uses a smallish 12V car battery on opposite side of trolley from winch. Works for many dozen lifts per charge. My 12YO can easily move full load pulling on the chain to the trolley. I use S6 12.5 for runways and S8 18.4 for the bridge. Trolley folded up from 1/4 A36 . Buy actual crane wheels for about $80 each (best money I ever spent) For your space, would use same runway material and stand the runways on 4 x 4 x -.188 posts. You also need some cross pieces (say 2x2 1/8) to hold runways dead parallel. Second pic is the runways (tension fabric shelter) with bridge and trolleys in place.
Here are your bridge numbers: https://www.yalehoist.com/Catalogs ...NENT_-CRANE_BRIDGE_KITS_THRU_5_TON_MANUAL.pdf for 1000 lbs. over 24' you need the S10

What is your wall height?

BTW: once you have worked with coverage from overhead bridge crane you will never be satisfied with anything less. I have an 80' 1000 lb. monorail in an radial truss shelter and it is a genuine PITA to have to do everything under centerline

 

[Old Moparz]

Is your building up already?

When I designed my garage I wanted I-Beams to hold the second floor up to avoid having columns. The 2 beams run front to rear & rest on the top of the first floor structure. If you only have one floor you can still incorporate an I-Beam into the design. Everything is more expensive now but probably still worth looking into it before you build. I bought a trolley & a chain hoist to ride on the beam. One is rated at 2 tons & the other at 3 tons but I forget which one is which. I've never lifted anything heavier than a complete V8 motor.

Bought mine locally in NY & got both for way less than one goes for now.....

https://www.metalsdepot.com/steel-products/steel-beams

You can see one of the two beams with a trolley & chain hoist in this photo.....