To keep costs down, I used the steel that was available to me.

The paint is pretty much the same brown that you see on Forest Service gates
etc. - not mauve at all. If it looks that way, it's some digital artifact.

Grant

RoyJ wrote:

Solid but overkill. And what's with the mauve paint?

Grant Erwin wrote:

My new shop gantry, that is. I need a hoisting machine that can go
down low
enough to roll into my shop through a regular garage door, or go up
high enough
to lift a tall machine into a pickup truck bed. I figured I'd design
it with two
ton capacity, even though I doubt I'll ever lift that much with it. It
has casters with a feature I like, which is swivel locking. Each
caster has a spring-loaded pin which if actuated, engages one of 4
slots to hold the caster in a rigid locked position. In other words,
they can swivel or they can lock in any of 4 directions. Makes it easy
to drive, and easy to keep it from rolling.

It isn't a very good picture, and it's only an inexpensive 1-ton
chainfall hung on the trolley, but you'll be able to get the idea. The
top beam is 8x18.5 steel
in good shape, you can still clearly read the manufacturer's name and
heat number stamped in the side. The whole thing is painted in
Rustoleum rusty brown primer.

http://www.tinyisland.com/images/temp/gantry.jpg

It took me a disgustingly long time to get it finished, but now she's
ready to work.

GWE