Front End Boom/Crane

[downsizingnow48]

Many thanks to texasranger556 for giving me the idea to do this. Following up on the post above. I mounted an old engine hoist on a SSQA plate and replaced the jack with a cylinder run by the tractor hydraulics. It is very handy and was easy to make.

 

[texasranger556]

Many thanks to texasranger556 for giving me the idea to do this. Following up on the post above. I mounted an old engine hoist on a SSQA plate and replaced the jack with a cylinder run by the tractor hydraulics. It is very handy and was easy to make.

Credit goes to Viny. I just asked him what he planned to do with it

Looks like you could get stuff into a second story window with that thing! I bet running over a rock or pot hole with the rear tire ramps up the pucker factor with your load swinging back and forth. Be safe!

 

[downsizingnow48]

OK thanks to Viny too! And you are right, easy does it, or could get out of hand. For most things I carry them dragging on the ground a bit for stability, but not my wife's big old secretary.

 

[Xfaxman]

I made one from square tubing, that fits on the forks:

 

[Roadking52]

I looked at the first picture before I saw your info, and said to myself, that’s gotta be Wyoming. Are you anywhere close to Jackson?

 

[Reb954]

I looked at the first picture before I saw your info, and said to myself, that痴 gotta be Wyoming. Are you anywhere close to Jackson?

I assume you mean me? Yup, about 75 miles from Jackson.

 

[Roadking52]

My daughter lives in Jackson, so I’m in the neighborhood a lot. I thought the background looked familiar.

 

[bdog]

Many thanks to texasranger556 for giving me the idea to do this. Following up on the post above. I mounted an old engine hoist on a SSQA plate and replaced the jack with a cylinder run by the tractor hydraulics. It is very handy and was easy to make.

That looks nice but what is the real benefit of the cylinder? If the arm was fixed in the highest position couldn稚 you just tilt the bucket up and down to lower it?

 

[downsizingnow48]

Well I agree pretty much with what you say. The cylinder is not essential, the boom could work without it, just like any other boom folks have made. I put the cylinder on with some ideas in mind. First I wanted to preserve the engine hoist functionality, so swapping the hydraulic cylinder for the muscle-powered jack seemed like the right thing to do. Second the cylinder operates slower than the curl function on the bucket, so easier to control. Third I am going to mount my Remington electric pole saw on it for tree trimming. I figured the slow-moving cylinder would be easier to engage the saw than the curl motion. The last thing is stability. For lifting heavy stuff on and off trailers or pickups, I plan to put the loader on the ground and do the lifting with the cylinder. The B21 gets pretty wobbly with a weight hung out, either front on the loader, or back on the backhoe. These are some specialized needs, that might not be important for many folks, but add up to why I put on the cylinder.

 

[flingwing1969]

I needed to be able to lift my metal trusses onto the 9' studs of my new metal shops (two of them) so I built this little gem in about an hour and it worked like a charm - not much additional lift in it but it sure did the trick exactly as desired.

I welded a 2" receiver onto my forks base and that's where the crane's base fits into the tractor. The boom is simply a piece of pipe, bent slightly to provide the lift height I needed. I welded 4 small chunks of rebar onto the pipe where it fits into the receive to make it "square" instead of round and didn't drill it or otherwise try to fix it into the receiver - the weight of the load and the cables running back to the forklift plate hold it in place nicely. I welded a length of rebar along the top of the pipe across the bend to provide added strength and it straightens out nicely with a load on and when it's under tension.