{"id":840,"date":"2021-09-21T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=840"},"modified":"2021-09-19T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:48:16","slug":"garage-beam-trolley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/garage-beam-trolley\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage Beam Trolley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back when I was doing some part-time work for Mr. Arimoto, one of the miscellaneous tasks I helped him with was assembling a new woodturning lathe. This was a serious lathe, with a heavy base and a heavy lathe body with a large heavy bed. To lift the top into position on the base, we used a rolling gantry that held a steel beam suspended overhead, and a wheeled trolley with a pulley underneath that rode back and forth on the beam. It made the whole operation possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To own something like that, you need to have someplace to keep it when you’re not using it. I don’t really have a place to put a big gantry system, but<\/strong> one day I was browsing in a tool catalog and saw that you can buy a beam, trolley separately, and install it on an existing I-beam. Ding! There is an existing exposed I-beam in the garage! Sometimes we are moving heavy pots of dye onto and off of hot plates, or I am trying to position heavy lumber or machinery all by myself. This would be super handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beam Trolley and Pulley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One trip to the Harbor Freight store and some ladder work, and now we have our own gantry system. HF stuff isn’t always the best quality, but I won’t be using these items anywhere near their advertised weight limits, so I expect it will be OK. This beam runs the full width of a 2-car garage, so it can help us transfer things across a wide area. We could use it to lift heavy loads out of a pickup truck if we ever bought heavy things or had a pickup truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when I was doing some part-time work for Mr. Arimoto, one of the miscellaneous tasks I helped him with was assembling a new woodturning lathe. This was a serious lathe, with a heavy base and a heavy lathe body with a large heavy bed. To lift the top into position on the base, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,25,178],"tags":[520,519,27,518],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oversharing","category-personal","category-tools","tag-beam","tag-garage","tag-tools","tag-trolley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}