Some misc. stuff that i've made.

[Bfoughty]

The first thing that I made was out of laziness I guess. we pulled the engine out of my nephews truck to rebuild and he wanted to do stuff to it while it was out. Not wanting to store it in the shop until he felt like comming over I made this tow/push bar to move it in and out of the shop.

 

[Bfoughty]

The next thing that I made was due to having to lift the motor out of a Honda Civic to get the Alternator out. The car was on the lift and I used a lift jack with a modified pad to lift the motor. I've since added some different attachments.

 

[Identaltech]

that tow bar is just what Sammerdog needs to pull his wifes car down the interstate.
simple but good ideal.

 

[Bfoughty]

I kind of stole this Ideal from a buddie of mine...but I still think it's a good ideal and needed to be posted. I modified a cherry picker by putting a cheap 2000 lbs. winch on the back of it. Set the height that you want and let the wench do the work. Beats pumping up the ram.

 

[Bfoughty]

The last is a cheap welding table I put together. Nothing fancy but it works. I used a 1 Ton wheel, drive shaft and some flat plate. attached a vice that was my grand dads and welded a hook for my slag hammer.

 

[Bfoughty]

I wish I had a way of modifying it to work on cars as well as trucks but pushing a truck into the shop ball to ball beats pushing it any day.

 

[JakeD]

Cool stuff. That tow bar didn't come from laziness, just working smart instead of hard.

 

[akdiesel]

I kind of stole this Ideal from a buddie of mine...but I still think it's a good ideal and needed to be posted. I modified a cherry picker by putting a cheap 2000 lbs. winch on the back of it. Set the height that you want and let the wench do the work. Beats pumping up the ram.

That is a clever idea. I will have to do this as well.

 

[metal1313]

why not just get a cheap air over hydro ram instead of the winch? they arent much more expensive than the little hf winches are.

 

[akdiesel]

I did get one and installed it on the crane, but there may be a time when you are not able to lower the boom down or it has to stay in one position.

 

[Bfoughty]

UPS mechanic showed this ideal to me. They use it to pull transmissions out of the passanger side of the truck. Like akdiesel said...times when you can't lower or raise the boom but need to lift.

 

[Nealcrenshaw]

Good ideas you have there.

 

[mustangmccance]

I kind of stole this Ideal from a buddie of mine...but I still think it's a good ideal and needed to be posted. I modified a cherry picker by putting a cheap 2000 lbs. winch on the back of it. Set the height that you want and let the wench do the work. Beats pumping up the ram.

I know I shouldn't ask but seriously how do you get the wench to do the work. I have tried and tried and she just won't do it.

 

[catmech]

I know I shouldn't ask but seriously how do you get the wench to do the work. I have tried and tried and she just won't do it.

you have to train them with diamonds - just buy the HF electric winch it is cheaper than training the wench to do it for you.

 

[mustangmccance]

now that makes good economic sense.

 

[Bfoughty]

Yep...the diamonds always work.

 

[35mastr]

If you train them from jump street right from the beginning. The diamonds will never be necessary.