Need to come up with a "crane" to lift trusses

[BukitCase]

Kinda depends on the backhoe; my 580B has a 1 yard bucket on the loader - a ton and a half of gravel makes a pretty decent counterweight... Steve

 

[jmc]

The backhoe boom is almost certainly a better crane but the problem youæ±*e likely to encounter is you can稚 transport much weight with the stabilizers up without tipping backwards.

My Case would be stable enough with 200 lbs overhanging by 5 or 8 feet. He could spot the trusses off to the side but within reach of the planted BH, swing over and pick them up.

 

[fried1765]

Just as others have shown, you can rig up a stinger to attach to the bucket. I rigged this one up to put a safe into my house. As was mentioned, you need to go very easy on the controls.

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Those front tires look like they are having a tough time.

 

[DanMc77]

If you plan to fab something for lifting higher, have you considered fabbing something for the backhoe rather than the loader? Your BH's loader and arm will be more rigid than whatever you extend the loader with. And you'll have east/west truss tweaking.

I can see that the backhoe would enable a much greater amount of flexibility with movement, but mounting and bracing a long extension would seem to be problematic. My model 48 backhoe probably doesn't have the strength to lift something that far out. The tractor has wheels and can move around too.

Edit: I spoke with my machinist friend who works on heavy equipment. Like you, he suggested considering using the backhoe due to the flexibility in movement, but it all depends on how high it goes. I'll have to give this some more thought.

 

[rangerfredbob]

A friend of mine used a "material lift" which is a manual forklift with outriggers, it's $75 a day to rent and will lift 24' high... that's what I'm going to use, much easier than making something and will just be a weekend project to pretty cheap...

 

[Diggin It]

I can't see my BH having enough vertical reach to make any meaningful difference. Maybe a real BH would.

 

[jmc]

I can't see my BH having enough vertical reach to make any meaningful difference. Maybe a real BH would.

That's a good point, and it would be simple to compare them.

If I were going to use my forks on my loader, the fork frame would allow the forks to be mounted upside down, thereby saving a 20" or so of spindly extension length.

 

[BHD]

we bolted a pipe, (square tube would work fine) to the bucket of a small farm tractor and ran two cables to each upper corner of the bucket and put a bit of tension on them, the pipe had a loop welded to the end on the under side, and we put sizzer trusse up on a 40 wide building years ago, we left par of the end wall open

seem like the beam was about 16 foot long at the most, used the loader lift and the bucket cural , my friend ran the tractor I was up in the rafters nailing on spaces, and there was some one to hook the truss on the end of the boom,

nearly just like this web site shows, truss boom | N-News a little different idea but much the same, http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=67789.0

 

[07wingnut]

How about something like this. That is a 600lb 36ft steel beam, gives an idea of the dimensions of the boom.

 

[Birdhunter1]

This is how I did it on my horse barn in 2016 and I raised them when I built my shop in 2010. It works well, costs maybe $200 for the day, you can set roof purlins on the end trusses real easy with it and there is always a tree limb somewhere that needs a lift to be able to cut it.