Enhanced Cherry Picker - Engine Lift

I augmented my Cherry Picker to enable me to get things directly from the ground, or below.
I am sure that I will get some comments on my original design of the cherry picker itself but I did not want to go and buy a longer stroke hydraulic jack etc. The original intent of the cherry picker was just to get my mill on top of it's base. The mill weighs over 600 lbs and the cherry pickers I've seen did not have the vertical height I needed to get as high as I needed above my mill. I was looking at a come along etc but just had this thing in my head I wanted to get out into metal.

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Education

Tags:

• cherry
• picker
• engine
• lift
• hoist
• block
• and
• tackle

[ikeeickholdt]

LOL - yeah, I know, it is a sickness. I need to pick other projects to build that aren't already invented and are not so cheap to just purchase. You are right. Though, while I am working on such silly things, my mind wanders out and sometimes other ideas come of it. Thanks for the post, and the reality check ;~)

[zapwatt]

Jesus H. I see really good used cherry pickers sell for under $100. This guy must reaaalllly want to save $50. . . but all the time he spent, did he really save?