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Next up are the legs for the I beam. These will slide within the sides that were just made. Instead of using regular square tubing, I opt to use 2 lengths of rectangular tubing that when welded...

Welded together the pieces to complete the sides

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Once the sides were almost welded together completely, it was noticed their overall width was going to end up WAY too wide.
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Started welding those finished parts together to create larger sub assemblies:

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Then welded together the small parts that will make up the sides or "A" of the gantry frame:

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The casters and locks arrived. Same setup we use with the majority of heavy equipment we build and use around the shop. Casters are a HD 8"x2" greaseable swivel plate caster with brakes.
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The shop has been in need of a more graceful way of handling heavy objects then just our forklift. The shop is small and the scheduled is always packed, so shop space is limited, usually leading to...

Assembled the stabilizer to the new mount

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Removed the old, broken mount

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It was decided the quickest and strongest fix was to remove what was left of the old mount and fabricate a new one from scratch. The old mount wouldn't be able to be perfectly matched since it had...

Here is a short video looking over the damage:


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In the video you may notice that the driver side mount is also starting to fail. The clients chose to address this...

It was brought to my attention that I hadn't posted much in way of any 4x4 builds or fixes as of late. So here is a recent one that the clients were alright with me sharing:

Were recently tasked...

Wow. That sucks. I know everyone and every injury is different, but after blowing out my L5/S1 twice in 3 years, I would be doing everything to avoid surgery. I opted to get surgery the first time...

Thank you very much for the advice! If I was smarter, I would probably take it.

Aww big bummer that I will be unable to help you this time. Hope I will be able for your next projects, if they allow for some planning ahead.

Be happy to help if able. If you are serious, call, email, or even pm me (signature is a link to business website) to see when I might be able to squeeze you in. If you wanted it all done at once,...

Anyone wanna race? Four 3/8"-16 threaded holes perfectly tapped in under 40 seconds. Can your setup beat it?


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A little something for Throwback Thursday


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Here is a short video showing just how quick and easy it is to set up, use, and break down.


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Just need to add some paint and it will be complete!

Everything breaks down into the base which is about 72" x 38" x 6" tall.

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With the frame of the base completed, it gets skinned with some 1/2" x 14ga flat expanded metal

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2022 is looking to be yet another crazy busy year for us. And coming up soon on the schedule happens to be a couple projects that will require working 8-20' above ground level. While working from a...