Making A Shop Crane in 8 minutes

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I built a crane for my friend's machine shop. It was designed to swivel 270 degrees and pick items off his pickup truck and load them onto his plasma cutter or milling machine. The whole process took a day, and we used material that was gathering dust on his property.
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