engine hoist

[Icuby]

I bought a 2 ton engine hoist[cherry picker] from Northern,hooked it to a 4 cyl.perkins diesel,can hardly move it after I pick it up. Very dissapointed.

 

[Bob]

Sounds like you need to take up weightlifting (or perhaps get larger casters)!

 

[markiz41]

Is it on a hard flat surface? If not, don't be disappointed.

 

[dixon boy]

anything thsat has little casters do not roll very easy even on cement. get your self some 6" or larger caster and put on and it will make world of difference. Alot of those cherry pickers you get what you pay for. mine has 6 inch dual casters all around and sometimes it rolls little tough course i have usually over two ton hanging on it. It was built in 1977

 

[john *.?-!.* cub owner]

sweep the floor, even a little dust will make it hard to move.

 

[PJH]

I took delivery on one of those two ton hoists from Northern a couple weeks ago. First thing I noticed about it was that the castors had NO lube on them. I lubed them up real good before I bolted them on, and they roll real good on a clean floor, but I haven't had an engine hung on it yet.

I think it's a pretty good hoist compared to the one the local farm store was selling. The farm store hoist had a 55 pound shipping weight (2 ton cap.) and the Northern hoist had a 250 pound shipping weight.

Paul

 

[Keith-OR]

Who needs a cherry picker, I have Shawn!!!



Keith & Shawn(Gold Medal Winner)


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[brokenot]

I don't have anything useful to offer up on this topic, I always use chain hoists to remove/install engines because it's much easier to do fine positioning with the heavy object supported from a chain hoist rather than trying to move an entire engine hoist into position. Not only that, but there's the engine hoist boom to bang your head on, the engine hoist legs in the way when you're trying to roll underneath on a creeper, etc.

I would like to weigh in on the "cherry picker" term though. While it's understandable that aerial work platforms and manlifts may sometimes be referred to as cherry pickers, (but even then I'd have to ask why....unless that's what they're actually being used for), how did this term ever get adopted for the engine hoist device? They have never. and will never be employed in any cherry picking endeavors.

*Engine hoist* even has fewer syllables, so it's shorter than *cherry picker*.

It's far more appropriate, it's easier to say, and it doesn't leave anything up for misinterpretation. I say we put this "cherry picker" nonsense to bed. Either that, or we develop colorful and equally illogical terms for other stuff. I'm thinking my transmission jack could be something like *pistachio dolly*.

"Hey buddy, are you gonna be around this weekend? I was wondering if I could borrow your cherry picker and pistachio dolly? I've got an engine and transmission to install, and it's a real bear without a decent cherry picker and pistachio dolly....."

:wink:

 

[rustyfarmall]

(quoted from post at 04:03:31 02/04/11) I don't have anything useful to offer up on this topic, I always use chain hoists to remove/install engines because it's much easier to do fine positioning with the heavy object supported from a chain hoist rather than trying to move an entire engine hoist into position. Not only that, but there's the engine hoist boom to bang your head on, the engine hoist legs in the way when you're trying to roll underneath on a creeper, etc.

I would like to weigh in on the "cherry picker" term though. While it's understandable that aerial work platforms and manlifts may sometimes be referred to as cherry pickers, (but even then I'd have to ask why....unless that's what they're actually being used for), how did this term ever get adopted for the engine hoist device? They have never. and will never be employed in any cherry picking endeavors.

*Engine hoist* even has fewer syllables, so it's shorter than *cherry picker*.

It's far more appropriate, it's easier to say, and it doesn't leave anything up for misinterpretation. I say we put this "cherry picker" nonsense to bed. Either that, or we develop colorful and equally illogical terms for other stuff. I'm thinking my transmission jack could be something like *pistachio dolly*.

"Hey buddy, are you gonna be around this weekend? I was wondering if I could borrow your cherry picker and pistachio dolly? I've got an engine and transmission to install, and it's a real bear without a decent cherry picker and pistachio dolly....."

:wink:

I'm 60 years old. Those portable engine hoists have been referred to as "cherry pickers" for as long as I remember. At the same time, I have also been around, and used, the man-lifts, verta-lifts, etc., and I have NEVER heard anyone refer to those as "cherry pickers".

 

[Sidekick]

I agree. I hate calling them that but it seems as if you don't a lot of people have no idea what you are talking about. I usually use 'engine hoist' but have heard them called 'floor cranes' which is probably more accurate.

 

[Keith-OR]

Just do a google search of cherry picker. Then you'll see why the term cherry picker is attached to an engine hoist. They have all the Cherry Pickers ya want ta buy.

Keith & Shawn(Gold Medal Winner)

 

[jd b puller]

(quoted from post at 12:07:21 02/03/11) I bought a 2 ton engine hoist[cherry picker] from Northern,hooked it to a 4 cyl.perkins diesel,can hardly move it after I pick it up. Very dissapointed.

Are you trying to use it in a gravel driveway or in the yard? i have a similar model. I've picked up my JD B complete minus the frame rails (2500#) and wheeled it around.

 

[brokenot]

If anyone wants to, they certainly can Google "cherry picker" and you'll see what I mean. I tried to post a link but it isn't allowed.

Anyway, the page 1 results inlcude aerial boomlifts and work platforms, engine hoists, software, etc. And that's my whole point. Why use a term that's not only incorrect and illogical, but one that's also used for a bunch of other unrelated stuff?

Engine hoists have never, and will never be used for picking cherries. And engines have never, and will never be...anything other than engines.

To take it a step further, even if you chose to describe your engine hoist as a "cherry picker" when you used it to pull the engine OUT, does it make any sort of sense at all to call it that when it's used to put an engine back IN? I mean, you're no longer "picking" anything with it.

How did this nonsensical term ever originate in the first place, and why is it still used and defended? I'm trying to picture the first guy to ever call it that, and the other people standing there as he did so. Here's how I think it probably went:

"Hey, roll that...ummm....errr.....*cherry picker* over here so we can get to work."

"What *cherry picker*? What are you talking about?"

"That thing...right there. The device with the lifting cylinder and the boom arm on it!"

"Ohhhh, the hoist. I gotcha. Hey everyone...this is now officially a *cherry picker*. Just play along....don't ask why."

:lol:

 

[MF24-4]

Son and I tied onto a tire and wheel on a Oliver 1600 a while back. 2 ton hoist. Bent one leg on the cherry picker,engine hoist, floor crane etc ?????? Boy was that heavier than what we thought. We were in big trouble for a while.