DIY Garage Gantry with Chain Hoist

hello my name is Rick I'm April's dad we are going to build a gantry in my garage I've always wanted one where I could hook a chain hoist and lift up my mower to change belts or blades or lift up your golf cart to work underneath so in this video this today this is what we're going to be doing Mike my dad said a garage gantry here is the end result so you can see what we're going out there it's an i-beam placed on top of two columns that are bolted to the floor and a trolley and hoist can run along the i-beam and be used to lift things up if you plan to tackle this project a lot of people go ahead and make their unit mobile so that I can be moved around however dad didn't like the idea of it being mobile and wanted his to be bolted to the floor so that's how we're going about this one the first thing we did was pull some measurements across the stud Bay we'd be placing the gantry and this is so that we can cut down some boards to go across that Bay we'll use these later on to help secure the top beam too while I set up these superjaws dad grabbed the material and sawed and we cut the few pieces to length i spaced them equally across the length that the i-beam would be placed then attach them with four screws the bottom corner of the truss all right next up was to lift the beam in the place we're using a small eye beam from a local steel supplier and I did have them cut it to length before I went and picked it up this beam isn't super heavy-duty but it's more than enough for what my dad will be doing we wanted to get the beam into place first before cutting each one of the side columns to height and to do that we first ran some straps through the trusses create some cradles then we took our time to stab one into the beam into one of these cradles and then the other with the beam loosely in place we roughed in the position left to right on where dad wanted it then as one of us lifted up on the beam the other one pulled the slack out of the strap if you do this project it would have probably been better to use ratchet straps because this kind of strapped without the ratchet wasn't enough to pull 100% of the slack out however next we grab some Bessy clamps and again as one of us lifted the other one secured the beam flush up against the crossmembers earlier even though it felt secure in the clamps we still left the straps up just as backup while we worked on the next step which was cutting down the columns next up was making the columns these will be made from some leftover 2x6 material from a card port I built my folks two years ago to mount them to the garage floor I sketched up a mounting bracket quick and a 3d modeling software and then cut them out of my torch mate plasma table if you don't have a table then of course you can use a handheld plasma cutter but if you do have a table I have a free DXF file on my website I started by laying the plate on the ground then taking an exact measurement that the column needed to be cut to once I had that I used the chop saw to cut it to size then to make situating the plate on the column go quickly I found Center on the mounting plate and made crosshairs then did the same on the 2 by 6 material this way I could set the plate on the ground and line up the marking on both to Center it you can see that I'm using magnets to help hold it in place where I want it now to sick things together I'm using my Lincoln Electric Power MIG 210 and I started off by tacking it in two places then having my dad Reed level on both directions while I added more attack whenever it was set correctly now I could remove the magnets and weld all four sides shut but I'm done now time to move to the top and dad's garage he has a chest of drawers we needed to work around not only making sure the column wouldn't hit but also the larger mounting plate at the bottom we also moved the plate and column over enough so that a drill can get in between these two once we had that spot set we place the column and move the i-beam on top of it making sure that it was sitting we're then as dad red-level I could get up to the top and tag and then weld it shut just like the bottom and that's one down I repeated the steps on the other side for the second beam first welding on the bottom plate then sticking the column into place and welding it to the i-beam dad has his garage set up said that his workbench what's the middle of his space and by the second column being on the outside of it it will give him an entire Bay of the garage to be able to use the gantry after it's complete all right the columns are done to stick it in place permanently we're going to drill some holes in the garage floor and place in some anchor bolts we first grabbed the bolts and marked off a drilled up on the bit using some tape we used a hammer drill ami for Center on each one of the slots in the base plate and drilled down to this tape all it does is give you a visual reference for a roughed up each hole needs to be next we stuck a washer and nut on each bolt and hammered them into place you want to place the nut on while you're hammering them in to protect the threads from getting damaged you'll see that I left the nut sitting at the very top once the bolt reaches its depth then we threaded the bolt on completely and tightened it up this thing felt really secure as is but still we wanted to go ahead and stabilize the top to the rafter somehow for this week lace these shoe pieces only on the left and right sides of the gantry they also act as hard stop so that you can't accidentally pull the trolley off that i-beam next we simply the trolley then attach the hoist the trolley is only $60 at Harbor Freight and that's before using their twenty percent off coupon so in my opinion it's worth adding on just to make moving the boys quick and easy the last thing we did was get rid of sand that's awful looking rust to make this job go quickly through a bristle Cup attachment on the grinders then got after it oh when my dad also placed a hook on the wall over on the right hand side to give him a place to leap the chains around when story great whatever I want to use it you know for as much function as one of these is gonna give my dad and really didn't take that long took away about three hours three hours about three hours so if you're needing one then I hope that this video has helped you out that's it for this one if you want a full cost breakdown there is one listed over on my website there is a link for you down below hope that y'all enjoyed it I'll see you next time by the way check out the new shirt shop shop get to it folks this is a shirt for all you go-getters who don't like to waste any time or maybe it's a shirt for those that need a reminder to get out and get it done either way if you like to support what I'm doing here then buying a t-shirt is a great way to do that the shirt does come in both male and female cuts there's a link for you down in the description hey you're 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Channel: April Wilkerson

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Length: 7min 28sec (448 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 27 2019