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If anyone ever hears me say anything about buying another glass project or going to get some bondo hair have me arrested for involuntary commitment to an insane asylum!!!!!

Tip for orbital sander: Be sure you attach sanding disk prior to using.LOL

When your 4 days from 56 and recovering from and continuing to battle many ailments, do not pick up a Mark55 from your truck bed and carry into the garage by yourself. Secondly, don't try to place said motor on a stand also by yourself

Joe

wouldn't attempt it in my prime, no less in my 50's. maybe that's why my back is good. speedy recovery...ron

Yeah, definitely don't recommend it with a '61 800FGS either. Thank god my neighbor, early 30's, was there to help me get that bad boy out of the truck and onto the stand, and that was still a heck of an endeavor.

Bob

Tip - engine hoist!

Frank

Did both in my mid to late 40s. However, I built a heavy duty motor stand with wheels and used it as a dolly.

Ouch.

I bought a Harbor Freight engine hoist just for that purpose- Came in handy when I was pulling decks off boats, too...

Mine is on wheels also but just getting it out of the bed of he truck onto it was a chore and a half. Don't have a cherry picker. Borrowed one a while back but had to give it back. Plus I don't have any room to put one even if I had it.

Bob

another tip...front end loader.

My mind says I can but my body says no way.
Be careful guys, these old motors are just flat dead weight.
First thing is health and the second is dropping one of these old girls and breaking something.
Be safe.
This guy helps me out a bunch.

Sorry to hear about your back Joe, I KNOW that pain! (Just getting over a bad back spell myself.) Sometimes just lifting anything and turning wrong will do it, I'm just gettin' old I guess. The cherry pickers or engine hoists are a great idea, Northern Tool (& Harbor Freight, I'm sure) have models with folding legs so they don't take up much room when not in use. They're a lifesaver, don't know what I'd do without mine. How else ya gonna get a Holsclaw up in the bed of a pickup!?

Yeah, I have a fold-up one too, rolls right out of the way. I've used it for a number of auto engines, pianos, outboards, etc. Best $ I ever spent for a heavy duty tool.

Frank

joe ,i bent over 2 days ago and my back went out,lol.
for motors i have a harborfreight 1100 lb hoist in the garage,i even used to pick up the sun ray to get it off the trailer,plus my mini back hoe,john plus it pulls my fold up table up and out of the way.

Myself and a young buck tried to take my mark78 off my owens last year and that was comical. Finally wrapped a hoist around rafter and got it off and then set it on a stand I threw together and it fell apart!!!

I use a block and tackle and if I can get to it I go with the front end loader.. Thats my Favorite way to go

Neil wrote:

My mind says I can but my body says no way.
Be careful guys, these old motors are just flat dead weight.
First thing is health and the second is dropping one of these old girls and breaking something.
Be safe.
This guy helps me out a bunch.

Looks like you roll in a Audi.

stashm2 wrote:

I use a block and tackle and if I can get to it I go with the front end loader.. Thats my Favorite way to go

WHOOP WHOOP!

2003 Audi Allroard 2.7 twin turbo Licence plate says ACHTUNG
2004 Audi A4 3.0 six speed manual.
My daughters painted the Audi rings on the back wall for me for Christmas 2 years ago.
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Neil

To help save my back and create space I hang most of my motors from the ceiling. I laid awake nights figuring how to be able to do it by myself.

Greg Anderson
Wisconsin

have pictures -somewhere-, I use to use my mighty giant Ladder.

i would lay the 800 face down, then lay the mighty giant down with the motor between the legs.

looking down at it, I would four point tie the motor to the ladder front and back, and I would have one ratchet strap across the back (or top looking down at it) and another across the bottom...

the ladder was set in it's #2 leg position (about 5 feet if I remember right).

now with the weight of the motor being displaced by the ladder -in the lift-, the top of the ladder being the way it was made it easy to just -lift- the motor slowly in to a standing position where now what was the bottom where the face is, that cross strap would be released which allowed the back cross strap to force the motor "saddles" out past the ladder legs enabling me to just walk the funliner back to the ladder -lift- the tongue which would lower the stern -tap- the ladder to hook the saddles and lower the tongue to raise the stern...of course the the motor will come up but so won't the ladder.

i used and old jacket to protect the motor from the ladder.

My father in law and I were wrestling my 73' 65HP 2X a year. (205 lb.) He is now 70 and $200 bought an engine hoist from Tractor Supply Co.
I am in NW CT, so anyone near-by could borrow it if needed.
Piece of cake to do it myself now.

Greg, that is awesome! Really clever. How do you get the engine off the lift and mounted overhead?

I have a 13' overhead (exposed trusses) in my garage and have been trying to figure out how to hang my projects overhead and out of the way. Can you post a photo of how you rig the boat/trailer?

Deanlofall:

The motors are lifted up to the beam and hooked to a 5/16" lag eye bolt pre-drilled and screwed into the wood beam. Most of the motors hook directly between the motor lifting ring and the eye bolt or lag hook bolt. If they don't I use a short length of chain.
Hooked with a chain.
Hooked direct with "S" hook

I have three boats hanging from a set of wood beams with room for one more. Each boat is hung with two length of chain from the wood beam to a 2"X 2" X 1/4" steel tube running under the trailer at the axle. At the axle assures the same hitch weight as if was hooked to your truck. I have the boat trailer hitch hooked the a piece of u-na-strut connected to the ceiling.

I lift them with a bobcat with fork extensions.

Greg Anderson
Wisconsin

Greg,
This is very impressive. As I have been scratching my head trying to figure out how to sling the boat and raise it up into the overhead, i never considered hoisting the whole trailer/boat package. I have wood trusses, and planned to spread the load with 2-6x6s laid over several of them. It makes a lot of sense to run a 2 x 2 x 1/4 square tube under the trailer frame next to axle. Unfortunately, I dont have a Bobcat or fork lift to hoist the boat up, but I have access to a couple of chainfalls, which could get the job done.

I think i will leave my motor on the ground though.

Thanks for the reply and the photos... very cool.

Dean