8/22/2023 0 Comments Gantry crane lift planThe solution was a “portable” gantry crane that could be taken up north in parts, assembled on site, be low enough to fit through the roller door but could be raised inside to an adequate height to lift the machinery onto the trailer. But that wasn’t going to do it this time. In sheds all around the country, many motors have been pulled out of cars over the years with a chain block suspended from the wooden rafters. All the construction and moving had to happen over the Christmas holidays. Facilities on site included a small engine crane and a small orchard tractor with a front-end loader. There was poor access to the workshop which had a single roller door and limited access inside. ![]() This machinery included a lathe weighing around 750 kg. The main problem involved how to get the machinery out of the workshop and onto a trailer for the 3½ hours drive to Auckland, then offloaded at the other end. My father-in-law was not one to suffer from an iron deficiency and his workshop was proof of the amazing amount of equipment you can fit into an otherwise-ordinary, prefabricated metal garage. When I was asked to clean out my late father-in-law’s workshop, I knew that it would not be an easy task.
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