That was a saying that an old buddy of mine used whenever we were lifting heavy STUFF.
Ed's long gone now and I never even thought to ask where he got it from,
we always knew what he meant by it.
I'm just an old retired guy now a days, I never reached the status of tool & die maker, but I've been cranking
handles on lathes and mills ever since I was a kid as my pop and big brother always had a mill and lathe in the
basement shop. Also on the job over the past 50+ years I've drifted in and out of the machine shop when the need
arose. In my home shop I've had my Logan 10" and round ram Bridgeport for about four decades.
Now for about half that time, I've had this 1912 Lodge and Shipley 16" selective head waiting to put back in
service. This is finally the winter and I'm putting the finishing touches on what it needed to get it running
again.
Problem is.....at 73 close to 74....I don't what to strain my milk lifting those big old three and four jaw
chucks into place. My shop area is like stuffing 10lb. of crap into a 5lb. bag, in other words, it's pretty
crowded and the Large & Shapley lathe is in a rather awkward spot to get the cherry picker maneuvered in.
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/158511117/large I need to cover the length of the bed so I can pull the tail stock or load a heavy work piece into place.
I'm planning on rigging up some kind of hoist over the lathe, probably with a Reese Winch or something similar.
The wall behind the lathe isn't sturdy enough to hang a Jib from so I'm going to have to hang something from
the 2x8 floor joist 8' above the bed. Oh....and the other thing is....it's gonna have to be something I can fab here
in the shop and something inexpensive, remember now....I'm an old retired dude on a fixed income.
Any ideas to get the juices flowin' and get me started at the drawing board????
Denny Graham
Strained to the limit in Sandwich, IL
