DIY Plywood Mover at one 10TH the cost

pretty much anybody who's ever had a wood shop a metal shop or even a garage where they move heavy equipment is thought about putting a track system on the ceiling for moving heavy stuff in our last video we built a vacuum lift system and tested some of the weight holding capacities of that system and and then we just threw up a really quick track so we could use it in this video we're going to put up a nice track system that has some significant weight holding capabilities and we're going to show you from start to finish how we did that but for that I'm going to need some help so Maggie and Queen have agreed to help me to do the high up scary ladder stuff to install this new system thank you guys very much for the help you guys ready to get this done yes yes sir let's do it this is p1000 unit strap you can pick this up from Lowe's or Home Depot for like 40 bucks and if you've ever wanted to build an overhead track or an overhead Gantry system this stuff can save you a ton of money now while this stuff is only forty dollars a steak it's forty dollars for a 10 foot stick not you know the five foot stick I'm holding in my hand all the accessories for hanging this can get really expensive today we're going to show you how we hang it in our shop on the cheap p1000 is pretty popular in the electrical and fire suppression world and they also use this stuff to make shelves and racks and stuff like that so it's pretty sturdy stuff but if you look around you can find all kinds of fun accessories like these trolleys these are the trolleys that we're going to use today this is a tea trolley with four bearings and it's a sealed bearing now there's lots of options out there on the market there's some really inexpensive ones that look like this and don't have sealed bearings and they're super loud and then there's even cheaper ones that look like this that only have about a 50 pound weight rating so I went with these because they're a little bit nicer and really set of these is only about 60 65 bucks on Amazon so they're going to get us where we want and the hold capacity is 700 pounds a piece on these now we need two tracks that are 20 feet long for our Gantry system that means we have to join two pieces together during the manufacturing process I'm sure as it's coming out of the press they Shear this off so there's the ends right here aren't perfect now you can absolutely get away with just butting these up and running a trolley down it but there's a little catch in there there's a little bump and I don't like it so we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and cut about an inch off of each of these ends get them nice and flat so we no longer have to deal with that and it'll be a nice smooth transition but to do that we need to take all of our p1000 out to the metal room and chop the ends off [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] this down to a 2x8 and this is gonna the two by eight is gonna screw to some cross members we have on the ceiling now you would think that you could just take a lag screw lag right through these existing slots in the p1000 but you can't even with this really low profile head on this lag the trolleys run into it so we need something with a lower profile than that now they do have a bunch of mounting hardware that you can buy to mount these things but we want a lot of support on these and to do it every two feet on a 20 foot run twice would get really expensive so we're literally just going to drill some holes like this in the top of here then we're going to come around the underside taper those holes and we're going to use a number 10 exterior wood screw like this to bolt it down there's a lot of documentation about its load capabilities online it'll tell you how much load that you it'll handle depending on the span so from point A to point B that distance between would be a span in most cases we're going to go about three feet in ours but we're adding the secondary support of a two by eight underneath that so that's going to give us a lot larger load than a three foot span would to drill the unit track out we're using a Vortex Viking bit these are very unique metal drilling bits and pretty much the only bits I use on metal anymore I got these from Taylor toolworks and I'll put a link in the description box below but I can drill through all these holes and never have to worry about adding oil or the bit wearing out they're really quality bits they make this job a lot easier something that every machinist on the planet is going to yell at me for is I put this in hammer drill now granted I go through more bits this way but watch how much faster it is [Music] through an eighth inch of Steel like that right here is called an O flute tapering bed I'm sure you've seen ones like this before you can usually find a few of them on Amazon for cheap they're good on wood but when it comes to Steel they wear out really fast this particular brand right here is absolutely amazing it cuts steel like it's cutting wood and it just gives you a really nice clean taper really quickly and it just lasts and lasts and lasts foreign [Applause] so before I start building the p1000 down to the two by eights I'm going to go ahead and make sure my tapers are good and ah big fingers that is awesome the trolley is going to be able to get by that with no trouble at all [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] position clamped into place and then Maggie and Quinn are screwing them off and at each joint we're putting six three inch legs or three inch screws up through the two by eight into the two by six that's running across the rafters so now that we have our 220 foot tracks in our two runs we have to start working on the Gantry and that's very similar to the way we did the runs I'll show you the differences I'm not going to show you how we built it there's really no sense in beating a dead cat when choosing the lumber for our Gantry beam I wanted to make sure there was plenty of width that our hoist can slide through it and the 2x8 was actually a perfect width so what I've got here is a two by six with some three quarter inch Baltic Birch screwed below it a little bit wider than it really needs to be but I want to have some extra space for clamping and possibly putting some more screws in so these are going to ride down those two tracks that we just put in these trolleys will get bolted on right straight through here like so and then this will go up on the on the tracks and then the Gantry will get screwed basically to one side of this and there'll be some cross bracing that runs to the Gantry and this will keep the Gantry from canting in those tracks that's why I went a little bit wider with these than keeping it you know just about the same size as the actual Gantry this will help it run truer when we're pulling on one side or the other when we can't be right in the center those Vortex bits we were using earlier are phenomenal in Wood too all right let her go see what she does it's not going to go down past the plywood yet so just a little waste okay let's see how it goes so this is a little upgrade from the last motor we were using if you saw the last video we had a 150 dollar hoist that we were using that we bought on Amazon now that one had a corded remote so you controlled it from the remote the up and down I wanted to get a little bit fancier so I bought this one this was about 200 it has the same lift capacity as the other one 880 pounds and you can bolt those trolleys right to the bottom of this so it's really super easy to use we're going to throw this up on the Gantry do our cross bracing adjust everything out a little bit so it's super smooth and then we'll show you how it works foreign the tradition of testing weight here in the shop we're using the heaviest tool in the shop again now before anybody says I'm being silly or dangerous we know beyond a shadow of a doubt there is zero doubt that this can hold me and the chair and do it safe and of course we're wearing our protective equipment before we do this foreign [Music] yeah so that's the weights that is a really heavy chair this is actually kind of comfortable I think I'm going to build like a wicker basket I can hang from it and just chill out in there's a couple of things in that build that I didn't talk about that kind of go without saying like making sure that your two tracks are lined up with each other really well so the Gantry slides down them and making sure that you have a really good hold capacity to your ceiling now a system is only as good as its weakest link like I said in the last video about the vacuum lift and it's the same situation in this case also if you don't have a strong enough ceiling your support structure isn't there you're not secured well enough all those things affect how much your system can lift it's very important that you consider those things before you you know Park yourself on a wheelchair and lift yourself up with it big thank you to Maggie and Quinn for helping me get this done there's no way I could have got this done without them very happy with the results and if you haven't seen the last video about the vacuum lift system I'll put it right here you should go check that out and in the meantime we'll get started on the next video and we'll see you then hey guys guys can you plug the Hoist back in the straps are making my moves hurt hello anybody this isn't funny anymore

Channel: izzy swan

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 20 2022