[TheForge] Shop Cranes was (Yes you do need power)

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Hi Jerry;
When we bought our property, I bought a thrashed ford 4200 front 
loader. And while i've done things with it it was never designed 
to do and moved a lot of clay and steel with it....I also spent 
an insane amount of time working on it...and too many $ in parts 
to recommend going that route.
I thought, i can figure out how to fix that...and i could, but...pf

Jerry Smith wrote:
> Frosty,
> 
> I was think of a low mass forklift or a "Bobcat" with
> a back hoe, as well as other accessories. Right now I
> am looking for a tractor of any sort to help work my
> land. All the collectors have been buying up the old
> medium size ones, which is what I need.
> 
> So I may get a John Deer D and rebuild it, take a
> piece of rail road rail and make a plow out of it. The
> get some old lawn mowers and make a drag gang out of
> them.
> 
> Or the ulimate thing: hire a guy with one of those
> great big giant tractors, when he or she is done, the
> tractor goes home. So I don't have to maintain it.
> 
> Then my other thing around my place, we don't have
> power outages very often, and I can only remember
> maybe one in the last couple of years. Many people get
> one of those little generators, I have a 15 Kw
> multifuel, start iup peak of 22.5 Kw, auto idle, it
> has wheels, type of generator. This will run my house,
>  I know it will run my TIG welder and some other shop
> equipment maybe at the same time.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> --- Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: "Jerry Smith" 
>> <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
>>
>>
>>> Frosty,
>>>
>>> Gross overkill is the best way to go. I was
>> thinking
>>> of the 3 ton version for a new building.
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>
>> You betcha it is.
>>
> 
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