Restoring a Hand Cranked Crane to Lift a Swage Block

An old dairy crane/ hand cranked winch finds new life helping remove a 215lb swage block from my trunk! This crane originally moved 30gal milk cans from a cooled cistern and into a wagon for transport to a cheese factory, cheese being Canada's second largest export behind lumber and wood products around the turn of the century.

[@chrisdreyer1406]

Your shop and methods brings back a lot of boyhood memories from the late 1940s and early ‘50s back on the farm.
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[@the_str4ng3r]

Red Green would be proud! I think I found my new favorite Canadian CZcamsr.

[@marilynbrajevich-hh4qj]

Out with the new in with the old. Great job!

[@tobhomott]

Good job, this definitely beats having to back the car up to the forge every time you want to use it!

[@ronalddaub9740]

Growing growing up around this stuff I know you had a good life

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

Your setup there is so awesome!!!! Work smarter and not harder. Thanks!

[@danedgar5132]

Nicely done, but I was worried about that old rope.

[@royreynolds108]

If you add a single pulley block above the hook or get a hook with a pulley, then attach the end of the line at the pulley directing the line down, you will reduce the line load by 1/2 and it will be much easier to lift that load. The speed of lifting will be 1/2 of what this is tho. You might consider replacing that rope with some wire rope to lessen the chance of line breakage and dropping a load.

[@bobflores]

Now what? 😉 Got a cart handy? Solved a problem and created some good content. Thanks for the video.

[@SteveHerrick-yi4md]

Nice work! That used to be a somewhat common fixture around many farms here in Maine.

[@nancyschinckmariorobidoux875]

Nice job !

[@castironmachines]

Merci!

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Excellent job!! Really like that crane. You really need a pickup truck, LOL. The shop is fantastic!! Still haven't set up the line shaft yet in my shop. Got the Fairbanks Morse engine running good though, but now I'm unsure if I want to use it to run the line shaft instead of an electric motor.🤔

[@castironmachines]

I had a little 1-1/2hp Fairbanks in the corner as a backup to the electric motor, or to enhance the ambiance when I really wanted to feel like it was the industrial revolution! Cheers

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

@@castironmachines -- What size or HP is your electric motor? Is it single phase? Thanks!!

[@castironmachines]

@@ironcladranchandforge7292 tiny little thing, only 1/4HP.. plenty of power for small jobs only ;)

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

@@castironmachines -- Looks like it does the job though. Thanks for the information, just what I needed to know. I have a spare electric motor that I think is 1 hp. I'll need to go out in the shop and check. It may even be larger than 1 hp, can't remember.

[@GamingWithZeap]

if ya add 4 more pullies to make kind of a W shape it will reduce the load pull on the crank for you.

[@theowiththeo]

Love it!

[@glennmoreland6457]

Power hacksaws cut on the PULL stroke....
Good video
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[@castironmachines]

This model only cuts on the push.. strange I know, but the geometry only lifts the arm on the return if it cuts on the push and it doesn't seem to be able to get reversed. Cheers

[@ronalddaub9740]

dad was a master Machinist. Over his life he built a Schaefer using a crankshaft out of an old truck and many other things.
One year he made a automatic hacksaw that cut on the push stroke but he made it that way this is some good content thank you.! My grandfather also bought everything he could get at auctions and had all the stuff in barns at one time I can still smell the grease and the iron

[@ronalddaub9740]

Oh my line shafts you got it or going on.. you're living my dream

[@user-du9bv5ud9c]

Files are brittle, never use one as a crowbar. Nice shop though

[@canadianwoodenwareco.7631]

Hope that is your car and not your moms! You know I like sketch things!

[@castironmachines]

Special addition "Camry Pickup"!