What is this called?

[rockyridgefarm]

I called a gantry crane. Is that inaccurate?

 

[SVcummins]

I called em an A frame

 

[paul]

I believe gantry crane is correct.

I often hear them called A frame crane as well.

Paul

 

[SVcummins]

I call em nice to split tractors with

 

[rockyridgefarm]

Picked this one up for my neighbor yesterday. He is gonna pull semi tractor engine with it. We are likely gonna be back with a cattle trailer, cause the owner of this shop shut down and wants to sell all.

 

[Texasmark1]

I got certified as a Gantry Crane operator while working at the Superconducting Super Collider since part of our job included moving our equipment
around. They looked like that but were huge.

 

[Dieseltech]

I have an OLD one similar to that, hauled it home by laying it down on a hay wagon and taking the back roads.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

I took this one apart. We chains the legs to a truck, and used an 1840 case to pull it down. Tipped it onto the forks and set it on the ground. 16 bolts and it was apart. No possible way to haul it in one piece.

 

[Billy Shafer]

I installed a generator. For the Collider water pumping station.They had me mount it backwards on the fuel tank. Then I got blamed for it.

 

[jon f mn]

I wish I had one what ever the name is. I could really build
some stuff if I had that.

 

[SVcummins]

Harbor freight has one thats not a bad price Ive thought about buying one but we have two at work

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Might be a good build for you. gm

 

[Russ from MN]

Yes, it's a gantry crane, I built mine 30 years ago.

 

[quefan]

Yes it is a gantry, here is a pic of mine
with factory lettering.
This one can be disassembled to components
with just a couple screwdrivers to open
the split ring safety clips.

 

[MARK ROBKE]

Ditto. Mark.

 

[Texasmark1]

What gets me are the families that had to give up their homesteads, farms and rural acreage and then have the thing cancelled. Some of those houses wound up her where I live. That was quite an experience looking at the whole idea and implementation. I worked on it 2 years and then poof. Congress cancelled it, we got severance pay and out the door in a week or so. I bought a camping trailer and parked in in a park between Dallas and Waxahachie. I'd leave Friday after work and drive the 85 miles home and start picking up on farm chores. Monday mornings I'd get up early and drive down there to make work at 8 AM.

Mobile phones of the "cell" phone type were just getting their feet wet. Wife was working in Richardson, N. of Dallas, and I'd call her up when she was on the way home and talk to her. Since towers were few and far between it was touch and go on the conversation as every time she went down a hill we'd loose the signal, picking it back up on the rise.

I was glad it closed. Cern is doing the same thing for far less money. Basically the thing was being built just to prove the Physists calculations about what you find in elementary matter.......can you imagine getting a wad of ions traveling at the speed of light going CW in a 55 mile circumference, 15 mile diameter pipe, focused by Super Conducting magnets, cooled by Cryogenic towers every 5 miles, and have an identical wad of ions going CCW in an adjacent tube, and when everybody is in their seats, in the explosion chambers, they were to flip a switch diverting one bunch into the path of the other bunch and watch the "Quarks" that emanate from the collision. I was part of the team that was supposed to get whose wads of ions up to speed.

 

[bc]

This is mother nature's organic farming gantry crane.

 

[wisbaker]

I always thought the term gantry was used when the crane was on a post and the load was cantilevered around the post, but when it had two legs and the weight was
carried between it was then a bridge crane. But what do I know I'm a reformed Dairy Farmer.

 

[jon f mn]

To do it right it's still a fair amount of money. I keep my eyes open for a beam tho

 

[Mark-Mi]

Watch around farm auctions for a old Minneapolis-Moline gantry crane that a farmer would use to change implements on a M-M uni system.
I have one and know of a couple more around my neighborhood.

 

[Whiskey Bent]

Do you have a picture of that Mark? Would like to see it!