Other uses for you engine hoist

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Sedanman

Sedanman

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What other things have you used your engine hoist for besides engines? I have used mine to pull fence posts and recently used it to pull some small stumps in my backyard. I used a small chain wrapped around the stump 2 or 3 times and I take the slack out and put a bolt with 2 washers through the links and crank way. I do the same for fence posts and they pull right out with the concrete still attached.

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I used mine to get my generator out of the back of my truck. I have also used it to place an 8.75 up on milk crates.
 
I used mine to install the k frame in my other car with a strap and the car on jack stands. I did use it to lift a Dana axle in my buddies truck. They are pretty handy. I usually use the garage door track to hang stuff to paint

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I've used mine to lift transmissions from the ground into the bed of my truck, and to unload them.
I've also used it to hold the deer vertical while I skin them out and butcher them.
 
I use mine to put my B&W 5th wheel hitch and base in and out the 2015 Ram Dually. It is over designed IMO. My previous B&W in my 2000 was manageable by hand!
 
Used mine to lift 250 lb weights for the front of our tractors.
 
I'm planning on making a sling and using the hoist to move our VERY heavy tortoise. ..

Jeff
 
I have used it to pull a fence post.

I wish I would have had access to it years ago when I was unloading a complete from drum to drum Dana 60 by myself from my trunk. Instead I ended up with with two herniated discs and a shifted vertabrea.
 
My "claim to fame" is I have a two post hoist, so I made one engine picker convertible to a transmission jack. It cost little, I only paid 80 bucks for the cherry picker, and it works fantastic. I've pulled several transmissions already

The tilt is a piece of allthread with a couple of "coupler nuts" welded as a T, just turn the nut on the end. I don't mind bragging, for as ugly as this is, and no more than it cost it just is "IT"

The hoist is outdoors on dirt, so to roll the picker, I have a couple of lightweight perforated channels I use for "tracks" for the picker

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Lifting bodies off of frames to put them (and later the frames, too) on the rotisserie.

Lifting truck beds.

Using them for body drops onto assembled k's and powertrains.

Lifting freight out of trucks with no lift gate.
 
Lifting rolling jacks out of the back of the 'burb (the loaded them in with a forklift) ~400 lbs

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Lifting a 3-in-1 shear/brake/slip-roll out of a trailer (fork lift loaded, again), and then lifting it up on to the stand ~500 lbs

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I strapped the boom down with heavy metal bands and used the disconnected ram and boom as a press to pop the center out of a rim that I grinded the welds on. Guess I didnt grind enough as I bent the rim...;-(
 
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