Family saved $5000 building our own own gantry crane lift! See how!

I needed to move some heavy things around the shop and could not figure out how I was going to do it apart from investing either $15K in a forklift or as much as $2-5K in a steel gantry crane. All I really needed was to get heavy items off of my trailer, so I decided an overhead crane would suit my needs just fine.
This crane is made from 6x6 treated timber for the base/ leg assembly and a lamination timber I made from (4) 2x8's. The entire structure is screwed together with heavy duty timber frame screws. In the future, I plan to do more bracing with the crane and further reinforce the structure for added security. For this one test, it worked quite well.
The dimensions of the crane are about 10 ft. high and almost 8 ft. wide with legs that are 4 ft in depth.

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