Buying and testing the cheapest truck bed crane we can find!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2023
- *** Amazon link for the crane - amzn.to/3S64g0N **
Let's install a truck bed crane on the car trailer! This will require some minor fabrication and welding, but it will be worth it! Follow along as we put this crane to the test. We'll max out the capacity and see if it holds up! - Навчання та стиль
Your boom is on backwards. Pivot is on the tail hole.
Oh wow! You are 100% correct! I just looked at the pictures in the product listing and the instructions. Some of the pictures show it backwards, some show it installed correctly. That's the last time I trust instructions :)
I looked at the Amazon page - the pics there show the boom mounted both ways - wow, they need to
get it Together
I have the big brother to this, the 2200 lb Rugcel. My welder/fabricator put a 1/2" 2x2 ft. steel plate under the trailer deck with grade 8 bolts (threw the Chinese ones away) and double box iron across the width of the trailer and welded to the frame to boot. I also had him place it just in front of the wheels so the weight gets taken up on a 3500lb axle instead of the corner or the tongue there. An outrigger or jack will help that and I'm sure you've got her tuned up right by now. I lift 1000 lb marble sculptures on mine and deliver and set them up in public sculpture parks and it works great mostly. A couple things I'm not thrilled about is lifting real heavy items will run the battery down fast even with my truck running and having it plugged in. I need more power than a 12 volt heavy duty battery and my 4Runner. The reverse won't work if the power gets low from lifting and so you're stuck with a 1000 lb rock just hanging there until you charge the battery up again and that can take time and be a real pain. I'd love to get a 3/4 ton with big dual alternators, but I'm not rich and interest rates are too high to switch trucks right now anyway. Oh, and don't forget to grease the main bearing regularly or the crane will rust and seize up. Last but not least, my winch and yours didn't come with a "fair lead" block so when you reel in the cable it can bind and Criss cross over and cause the wires to fray. I emailed Rugcel about this and never got any response. Maybe you have to buy that separate? You know what I'm talking about, the rollers in front of the winch that make the wire spool up properly. You've inspired me to do a video on my next marble drop and I appreciate seeing how others addressed the same sort of challenges I had in getting this all to work. Good job.
The lean you got was exactly the reason I have not bought one of these yet. It will need a lot of reinforcement below deck. Possible but even a bigger chore since I don't weld.
I bought one made by Velvor last year, I had to reinforce the bottom also, where the boom sits, the brackets were not square. A bit of advice, if you take this on the street, drill a hole all the way through the boom and base, as it will walk, no matter how tight you turn the lever.
@rustyassets weight limit is due to extended distance from center, so once you get the boom right way around, should be able to lift more at closer proximity to the trailer. Why not weld some supports just below the pivot, angled down to the trailer? that arm that fell off, put a longer one (perhaps removable), it will help you rotate large loads that you dont want to be under (again, once boom is right way around). If you put a pulley at the hook, and run the cable back up to an attachment on bottom near end of the boom, you'll put less strain on the winch and the cable. might want to upgrade to a winch that has a load holding brake.
Instead of the added cost of a trailer jack, mounting time, and inconvenience of placement, just get a piece of rectangular steel that will fit through the tiedown, with multiple holes of course for different terrain, and make a bolt on foot. Cheaper, just as effective. Just need to brace that corner. Just my thoughts.
Get a 1/2” steel plate that’s trailer width and 2 ft wide. That will hold and not flex. Bolt plate to trailer or weld then your hoist. Hoist was backwards
So no local Harbor Freight? $189.99
Note: you are beating yourself up by not Center lifting your loads, and keeping the Boom to low. 2 extended C-channels will stop the flex.
Good luck as you learn with this crane and always stay clear of your load.
I believe that you have it put together wrong. If you reverse where the arm is attached to the pivot bracket you will have more lift height.
Get a small snatch block. Should help pulling
I think you got your boom on
Maybe using a movers dolly on the trailer would assist in placing the load without much effort on your part.
Always hold your saw at 45degree angle
When the trailed deck bent downwards, you said "it wasn't the brace weld failing, it was the deck weld". I don't see how that could be possible if the brace was under the deck and supporting it.
He needed to use either washers or a spacer to take up the gap between the trailer deck and his reinforcement braces, or he should have clearance the brace ends for the flanges of his trailer crossbeams to weld the braces flush to the underside of the trailer deck. He left a gap
@@dodgeme1986truckI would've put the braces right up against the deck to better distribute the load. Leaving any sort of a gap is asking for trouble. looking at the amount of movement, I think the weld gave way.
@@MakeitZUPER that's what I was stating the braces weren't flush underneath the deck and there were no spacers to fill the gap which caused the problem
Yep,.. I don't know why he didn't mount it through the channel main frame just a couple inches away. And cope the 1 additional cross member to be flush to the bottom of the deck.
Should adjust from flat to up not flat to down.
You put the top of the crane on backwards lol
Yep,.. what good is a crane if the boom is at ground level?
its bending the decking a little reinforcement is needed
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thanks for the video .
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Thanks for watching!
The jib is backwards ...
One bolt not tightened ...
C channel is stronger the other way.
Using small hoist like that for 10yrs the higher your boom is less stressed your crane is USA engineer
That was painful to watch, learn how to use a portaband! It has a stop/rest for a reason!
Design flaw #1. Needs the boom to go higher.
Nope - assembly mistake. Boom mounted backward.
There’s cheaper ones you can buy new
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