I would have liked to have started on the construction of the second gantry this morning, but I needed to keep the drive clear of obstructions until this afternoon. Instead I started work on the chain hoist mounts.
To start with, this meant removing the strapping from some of the offcuts.
A tangled mess of strapping. This stuff is no use to me, so rather than keep it, just in case, it went straight into the bin.
Four of the offcuts were cut into three equal width pieces, one of each three was faced slightly to make it thinner than the other two and then cut in half.
These pieces formed the mounts for the four hoists.
Time for a cup of tea.
During my next break I assembled the hoist mounts.
This consisted of boring a 28mm hole through the centre of the long pieces then glueing and screwing the two short pieces as locating legs between the pieces with the hole. The result is as shown.
These mount sit on top of the gantry with the locating legs of the mount down between the two cross beams. The hole is for the attachment point, due to arrive later in the afternoon.
Now all that remained was to construct the second gantry and mount the choin hoists.
Time for a cup of tea.
After work it was time to finish up the second gantry.
This did not take much time at all, as expected.
I chose to build the second gantry close to the first so that I could use the first one and a rope to haul the second upright.
And here we are, two gantry cranes.
These are the four chain hoists. They have lived in the rafters for the workshop for a number of years and now it is time to make good use of them.
While I await the arrival of some metal tubes I started tidying up the boat ready for her short journey on /thursday. One of those things was to fit the gudgeon to the transom in its new, slightly higher position. Having done that I needed to check that the rudder stock still fitted. It does, tso that is another thing that can be checked off the list.
Time for a cup of tea.