ckucia
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About to start building a small workshop. Plans are 16x24 inside with a slightly larger covered area outside.
I do a fair amount of auto/tractor work - pulling engines, splitting tractors. Generally use a cherry picker, but was thinking a hoist might come in handy.
Found several pics on google of wooden rolling hoists guys have built to pull engines, flip boat hulls, etc.
Was thinking something like that might be useful inside and outside, but inside's what I'd like to talk about.
Wondering if I could build a rolling wooden hoist that would span the whole 16' inside and would roll along the side walls of the workshop. I'm building on piers with beams running the 24' length. If I overhang the walls off the beam, I could run the hoist right on top of the beam, transferring any weight through the beam to the piers.
Could frame up a wall inside the hoist supports so I could still hang shelving and parts on the inner wall without interfering with the hoist rolling.
Curious how I'd figure out what sort of beam I'd need. I can get 2x12s 16' long easily from the box stores. Would three of them sandwiched together give me enough capacity to hook an engine and, say move it across the room? Are there online calculators that would work to figure that out?
This is sort of what I had in mind - just taller and wider.
I do a fair amount of auto/tractor work - pulling engines, splitting tractors. Generally use a cherry picker, but was thinking a hoist might come in handy.
Found several pics on google of wooden rolling hoists guys have built to pull engines, flip boat hulls, etc.
Was thinking something like that might be useful inside and outside, but inside's what I'd like to talk about.
Wondering if I could build a rolling wooden hoist that would span the whole 16' inside and would roll along the side walls of the workshop. I'm building on piers with beams running the 24' length. If I overhang the walls off the beam, I could run the hoist right on top of the beam, transferring any weight through the beam to the piers.
Could frame up a wall inside the hoist supports so I could still hang shelving and parts on the inner wall without interfering with the hoist rolling.
Curious how I'd figure out what sort of beam I'd need. I can get 2x12s 16' long easily from the box stores. Would three of them sandwiched together give me enough capacity to hook an engine and, say move it across the room? Are there online calculators that would work to figure that out?
This is sort of what I had in mind - just taller and wider.
