RSJ, hoists and winches

[Stuart Giles]

Renaud, That looks a super building. I have put a travelling hoist  in each of the garages and workshops here.  This is the first one I made for my original garage here;  the rollers on this setup are all used Austin Seven Wheel bearings:



The budget ran to using 'proper' girder trolley rollers on the hoist setup when I built the 'new' garage on the other side of the garden.



Then I installed a new hoist setup in the 'clean' workshop. you can see that the main beam is cantilevered in the same way as one of those old fulcrum style weighing scales that doctors' surgeries used to have. This allows the girder trolley to cover more of the workshop area. My days of just grunt lifting up a 12" chuck up to mount it on a lathe spindle are long gone now.



In fact lifting the travelling beams up to mount them can be an interesting job, This is lifting the most recent one, I built a fair bit of temporary reinforcement up there in the workshop's shallow loft area before hooking up this chain block.