beam me up

rassled a beam into my shop Saturday,

should make life easier,
picking bodies, frames, engines and whatall

the posts will get braces angled from near the top down to the floor
prolly 2" pipe at about 50 degrees...

and a one ton electric hoist

 

That's been in my plans for the hotrod barn all along, it'd be like working in the batcave . Can I ask where you got the stuff and how much it cost?

 

When can ya drop by and install mine?

 

???

 

I got it for free, I work construction,
before a new building goes up in the city an old one typicaly needs to come down.
sometimes there is good scrounge..

I have a bunch left over I would let go cheap,
but I'm afraid the postage would a little spendy..

call some local scrap yards and ask,
I used a 28' stick of W12x26 for the main beam

but you could go lighter if you didn't need to make it so long or pick anything too heavy..
I just handed my spec's to one of the engineers here to give me a load capacity..

 

ok, just got some numbers back,
W12x26 ASTM A36 28' long
with factor of safety of 2

Failure= 7157 lb

I spliced my beam at the center,
didn't have a trailer to carry the 30' sticks..
so I beveled the joint for a full pen. weld used 70-18 rod
and added a 5/16 plate to the bottom flange at the splice

so it may be a little less than his number..
I do believe this should be able to support two tons safely though
and will shop for a one ton, maybe ton and a half hoist.
that should be plenty for a little home shop.

 

Cool, I can probably get a beam pretty cheap around here somewhere, I just need to find a trolley and a hoist.

That's a real nice setup!

 

Paul,
That stick of steel took more than a little rasslen to get it in and then up into place! That beam "only" weighs 728 pounds! Not too shabby work. You have to let us in on the pictures of HOW you installed it.

I'm jealous! Your garage is too tall for my neighborhood.

With that beam, what else are you planning on building in your "garage"? Are you planning on installing an Allison in anything or building a jet engined car for Bonneville? If you are you sure have the capability to lift whatever.

 

I was planning on ending the beam in the wall and framing under and around the ends of the beams with 2x4s.. I think that would be solid enough to hold quite a bit of weight, as long as the building itself was built well. It would also save some floor space.

 

The right size tubing would work fine, after all they hold up houses with lally columns.

 

I would love to have 1 of them in my garage. We have 5 ton, 10 ton and 30 ton ones at work, and they can all move N S E W. Wouldnt that be handy.