Technical Engine Hoist of your dreams..............

This one I've been trying to find used for years. It has pins to dis***emble and store on the cart.

 

That

 

Original post reminded me of this thread, particularly the one in post 9…….
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/off-road-engine-hoist.1055898/

 

I guess as a country boy I’m spoiled. I have a conventional engine hoist in the shop for such jobs. If I have to move an engine outside of the shop, I just go get the John Deere 3020 with a loader. I wouldn’t try to lift an 855 ***mins or 3406 Cat with it, but it will lift anything on a car.

 

This was posted as "Tongue in Cheek" humor as I thought it was way over complicated and as mentioned by others, the wheels are too big to go under a car and the frame going forward doesn't look sturdy enough. It was posted as an "engine hoist", but I suspect it may have been for lifting smaller engines off of lawn mowers and transporting them into a shop for repairs if necessary. Probably an older guy who did lawn mower repair and maybe p***ed away and his heir put it up for sale. Lot of ingenuity that I can appreciate and most older guys appreciate anything that will lift something for them.

I had one of the conventional "cherry pickers" many years ago. I mounted pneumatic wheels on the back just off the ground. It rolled around normally in use, but I could tilt it back onto the rubber tires and tow it like a two wheel trailer
when I needed to pull an engine from a junk car somewhere. Welded a small trailer tongue on for the towing. I just never liked cherry pickers so I lent it to a neighbor and later told him to keep it.

 

I always wanted a cherry picker that takes up an entire parking spot and can lift to a max height of 3 feet.

Honestly, this thing being sold would be great for moving heavy stuff around the shop floor. If you had 50 bare engine blocks in a machine shop or something and you had to constantly scoot them around, this might be great. But it'd be **** to try to pull any car engine out of a car, way too much tire height and way too little boom height.

 

But guys, it was built by a really "Talented engineer"....

 

THAT is the way--never thought of that...

 

Once you jack the car high enough to clear those tires you might have trouble getting the engine high enough to clear the radiator support.
It does look like some engineer's work; the same engineer who designs stuff none of us can easily work on!

 

Well, I did say it was for lifting engines, but I don't see that in the seller words. Maybe that part was in the ad. I only like the basic design. Everyone got the obvious issues, tires, strength of the frame to the tires...no outriggers if you tried to swing and engine. IF I built one, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make the same mistakes. That pallet jack design looks to cover most of them...just get rid of the cantilever. Yep, same as an A-frame, which was my first thought, but an A-frame would be much less compact.
IMHO, it's a good idea executed poorly. But again, it doesn't say it's an engine lift in the original text supplied.

 

In my experience the root of most problems were engineers and beancounters......then OSHA stepped in and things got even worse..........

Once had a training session where we were informed that our worldwide company would now only allow things to be placed on shelves no higher than 5 feet off the ground. I asked how they came up with that (because it was so stupid). We had a really short lady working there and she would have to stand on something to reach five feet, so why didn't they make it four feet to be absolutely sure no one got hurt? He said he would check on it at lunch time.
After lunch he quietly told me that the company had hired some co-ops and they needed projects to keep them busy.........so one of them came up with this idea and changed the worldwide policy of the company.
(Note: This was important to me because I kept the inventory records for the government test equipment and tooling and had to store lots of things.)

The ad was listed as an engine hoist for sale..........Here is the Listings Wording
$800
The Baddest Engine Hoist Ever
Crossville, TN

 

Haha! I saw that in the ad and laughed. As a mech Eng, I seriously doubt a real engineer designed that frakenlift. So many obvious issues with it. Lots of wannabes out there.

 

Had a similiar contraption used for removing in ground electric motors and small transformers at work. Big rubber tires and a hitch for golf cart or lawn tractor.
It was never intended for pulling engines out of vehicles.

 

Now that is pure genius, I've always wanted a pallet jack but couldn't justify taking up the floor space, this dual purpose rig is perfect!

 

my ideal engine hoist....with a banger in the back I just ******ed out of the back of the delivery truck that came from Hambtown Al out of his Cabriolet.....
I guess I need to paint my tailgate

 

OK, but I only looked at what was posted here. I like the idea of a vertical lift, that's one good idea here. Many good idea's are poorly executed.

 

For the awkward jobs, I use Mr. Toyota !

 

Scored a super cheap engine and needed a hoist quick. Build this in 20 minutes. Still use it a bunch of years later. Have everything I need

 

This is my favorite one.... Does the fact that it has a 4cyl flathead make it a banger? LOL

And just to make sure it's Hamb appropriate....

 

you can't get those big tires under the frame

 

Only a 1 ton chain hoist but this one has lifted just about anything I want to lift with it that is within the capacity of the aluminum I beam.


No photo that I can find but I have a low profile base cherry picker that was probably school shop built originally that the legs are less than 4 inches off the shop floor at the top.

 

This one at least started out as a device intended to lift heavy loads. The pneumatic tires are like lipstick on a pig. The unit being operated on uneven surfaces is only reason to have them. Once it swivels past 15 degrees from center it will likely tip over. 4 string line at blocks allow it to lift more than the line capacity or the platform's stability will tolerate, or it will bend.

 

same guy that has the engine hoist for sale has this vice for sale too. i won't show a picture of his forklift designed kiosk he has for sale.

 

Hey @jebbesen
That is a very cool forklift. At first I thought it was an early version of a Champ multi stage forklift, but if I recall now, I think that unit is made a company known as
"SILENT HOIST". There is one like it here in Ballard, that is owned by a company I used to deliver parts to.
Thanks for the photos.

 

Probably a software "engineer"! How the **** can a ****on pushing, mouse-moving geek be an "engineer"? Hijacking a professional description, that's what it is!

 

It's an old Pettibone Super 4. Has a little Continental 4 cyl and 4speed with a shuttle.

 

The ad in the original post says it was built by a talented engineer. I would have guessed it was designed and built by a committee and the various members had varying ideas of what they were supposed to design.

Lynn

 

Oak Tree....Served me for years and years when I lived in Bayshore Long Island

 

My brother came up with a brilliant plan to mount one of those pickers that bolt to the bed of a pickup on his little Toyota truck. Tried lifting an engine and the only thing that happened was the truck kept going lower.