Harbor Freight Electric Hoist Setup

hello guys bud here with dependable lawn care i haven't really talked about this and you guys might have actually seen a glimpse of it in a previous video but i made myself a new setup for my lawnmower maintenance including an electric hoist i had the chain hoist over here and i ended up moving the chain hoist to the storage building or the i called workshop because i needed it for taking the debris loader on and off well once i got it moved over there i i liked having it there and i thought you know i've been wanting to do something different over here for a while so what i did is i purchased a harbor freight uh parts am is the brand and it's a 880 pound electric hoist comes with the hoist kit which is a couple of tow straps this is one of them that has you know two heavy duty rings d-rings basically it comes with everything you need except for the track and i ordered two two pieces of five foot track because i wanted to be able to move it from there all the way out to here you know use it anywhere in between and also you know like if i'm working on a project where i need i need to lift something heavy to save my back i can do that and use this to move things around so the the track system or the track mount i actually kind of had to come up with my own setup and i used a couple of uh i used a couple of track bearings and then i just made the l bracket for both sides of it so that's just a bolt together unit that fits into the track and of course it's all got the same weight rating actually it's got a little bit more of a weight rating than what the winch is rated for and as does the track and the track i mounted up using four inch t30 deck screws so those big heavy deck screws that i used when building the deck so i mean everything is nice and strong sturdy used it several times already actually changing lawnmower blades and of course i still use my you know all my safeties are in place i don't i don't get under the mower at all until i have a jack stand or actually my my little 4x4 here that i made i just cut a cut a v in it and i usually put this under the front of the deck standing upright and then i'll actually let the hoist down just a little bit so that the weight is actually sitting on that block but here's your control you just have your up and down and then your your shutoff or your power switch so let me show you the other thing i like about it is it's a lot quieter than the chain moist [Music] so you know using the chain hoist out here to do my lawnmower maintenance was very noisy i mean they're just a you know chain hoist or just noisy so this is nice and quiet nice and smooth [Music] so i can get everything everything done without making a ton of noise i mean probably the loudest part of me changing blades is using the impact to loosen and tighten the blades so and i just have my my power cord and my control cord are just kind of twisted up here and then it's just hanging on a hook and plugged in down here to my extension cord so nothing fancy it's not hardwired in but but it's set up to where you know i can let out more i can let out more cord over here so that i can use the full length of the track you know when i'm doing my mower maintenance i'll bring the i'll bring the hoist over to about here and then as i as i hoist the mower up you know the mower is tilting back and it can actually roll on the track and and stays with the mower as the mower moves and i really like that so uh just kind of makes things you know smoother and more fluid um anything i can do to make maintenance you know faster and easier is always a plus and so this is a this is one of those things it's a time saver a little bit quieter and definitely a back saver so that's it guys i just wanted to show you that it's something something that i uh that i did that i hadn't really put out a video on yet and so there you go that's the new that's the new hoist that i'm using to do my lawnmower maintenance there's the uh the name of it part sam electric hoist and again it's a 800 pound is what it's advertised as the tag actually says 880 pounds so you know whatever but anyway as always guys thank you so much for watching if you haven't already please subscribe get out there and make some money and we'll catch you on the next one

Channel: HandyGuy 2016

Views: 67,398

Keywords: harbor freight tools, harbor freight winch, electric winch, electric hoist, mower hoist, track hoist, hoist track

Id: R-W--o0lXFs

Length: 5min 32sec (332 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 17 2021