Sometimes when working under the hoods of cars, it becomes necessary to assist with additional mechanisms that can help pull out or hang out the engine, while leaving enough space in the pit under the car to access all the details of the car. Ideally, such a device that provides assistance in car repair should:
- do not clutter up the place in the garage;
- understand the constituent elements;
- be independent of the ceiling fixed eyebolt.
It is precisely such a mechanism that a self-made crane-beam is.
Do-it-yourself video for making a beam crane:
Do-it-yourself construction of a crane-beam for a garage
1. As a result of all the actions described below, a beam crane will be built, which will look like this in the assembled state:
2. When disassembled, this garage tool will look like this:
The height of such a beam crane will be 250 cm, width - 415 cm. The base of the racks will have a size of 120 cm. All dimensions are designed to work with cars. If a beam crane is needed to work with more massive cars, then it is better to strengthen the structure by making A-shaped vertical racks and additionally using scarves for rod supports; the material used must have big sizes than those given.
3. We will use as materials for the crane beam:
- a pipe with a diameter of 10 cm, which will serve as a transverse seamless rod;
- pipes with a diameter of 11 cm, which will play the role of rod supports;
- M:16 bolts for attaching to the rod supports;
- square profile pipe 10x10 cm, used as a rack;
- corner 10x10 cm for the base and bevels;
- rollers for the cable (you can use rollers from the elevator door drive).
4. The rollers are attached to a strip of 5 cm, which is overlap welded to the junction of the rod with the supports.
5. To ensure the mobility of the tool, rollers taken from containers used in warehouses are welded to the racks.
In folding form, this item takes up very little garage space.
6. The lifting mechanism is constructed from a manual worm winch with a capacity of 800 kg, having a steel cable, by welding it to a vertical rack.
Using the garage as a workshop to perform repair work often requires lifting heavy building materials and automotive parts. Having built a crane-beam with your own hands, you can move large-sized objects on an automated mechanism.
Necessary tools and materials
For self assembly construction, you must first prepare a set of tools and materials. In particular, you will need:
- square pipes for racks;
- seamless pipe with a section of 100 mm for the transverse rod;
- pipes with a section of 110 mm for rod supports;
- metal corners 100x100 mm;
- fixing bolts M16;
- hoist;
- welding machine.
Carrying out calculations
In order for the design to correspond to the size of the room and function in the required working space, it is important before performing installation work carry out calculations. You can prepare a drawing showing the dimensions of all components yourself or use a special calculator. Standard parameters in the calculations are as follows:
- height no more than 2.5 m for the repair of cars and work requiring lifting and moving heavy objects;
- load capacity depends on the type of hoist used and, as a rule, is 800-1000 kg;
- construction width - from 4 m;
- rack dimensions - 120 cm.
If it becomes necessary to work with larger equipment, cargo lifting mechanism can be additionally equipped with A-shaped vertical racks. Also, if desired, it is allowed to make the structure easily disassembled, which is important in conditions of limited space or in the case of a rare need to lift loads.
Assembling a crane beam for a garage
When assembling a load-lifting garage crane with your own hands, you must consistently perform a series of actions, according to the instructions. By adhering to the installation rules, it will be possible to make a design that will work properly for many years. Key assembly steps homemade equipment is the preparation of the frame and the fastening of the crane beam for lifting, holding and moving loads.
How to make a frame-based crane lifting mechanism
The main load falls on the equipment racks, therefore, to securely fix the structure, it is required to build a strong frame. Raising an element involves the following steps:
- From metal corners with help welding machine make legs for a tap and weld at an angle of 45 degrees on each side of a pipe with a diameter of 110 mm. Metal triangles are welded to the racks to create spacers.
- To ensure the movement of the structure to a horizontal base, rollers are welded on both sides of the racks. It is important to use rollers designed for metal containers as they are capable of carrying a lot of weight.
- A pipe is placed on top of the structure, along which the lifting mechanism moves. The length of the pipe depends on the size of the garage and your own design requirements.
- The roller for the movement of the cable is fixed on an I-beam, which are pre-welded in the center of the pipe.
- For additional stability of the frame, a pipe with a square section is welded to the beam. It is located on top of the beam in such a way that a protrusion of 20 cm remains on each side.
- The transverse pipe is inserted into a pipe with a square section and through openings are made for the clamps on both sides. Mounting bolts are inserted into the holes and tightened.
Installation of the lifting mechanism
The main element of the crane is the lifting mechanism, which can be manual or automatic. Tefler consists of a cable and a winch mounted on the side of the rack. The cable moves due to the rotation of the rollers. Additional fixing of the elements is not required, it is enough to fix the lift on the rack.
A self-made crane can be equipped with lifting equipment that is used in elevators. Such mechanisms are highly reliable and able to withstand massive objects.
To simplify the repair work, it is possible to connect an electric drive to the lifting element. For automation of the structure, a 300-500 W motor is suitable. The electric drive is mounted to the base of the crane beam.
Completed electric drive the design is widely used in large-scale repairs of the garage and disassembly of the car for spare parts, when a complex of works is required. According to the principle of operation, manual and automated cranes do not have significant differences.
It is impossible to do without jib light cranes with a lifting capacity of 1 ton when carrying out various electrical, installation and construction works. Thanks to their design, it is possible to mount devices in various openings of a building or on ceilings, as well as move them for convenient use. They are easy to assemble and install, and if necessary, they can be quickly disassembled into components and moved to a suitable location.
The use of such structures is rational in the absence of the possibility of operating other types of GPM. There are many types of cranes with different design. They are divided into stationary and mobile. The boom devices are equipped with one electric drive mechanism for moving the load. The operation of the crane is carried out by manual control.
construction mini crane
You can independently create a variety of tools and devices that are so necessary in construction and other types of work. Despite the fact that a do-it-yourself mini-crane is characterized by a limited carrying weight of the load (no more than 250 kg), this design will simplify most of the construction work.
The main task is the selection of all the tools and parts necessary for the creation and subsequent operation. The weight of the prefabricated device can reach up to 300 kg depending on the materials used. At the same time, it has compact dimensions and the ability to move without preliminary analysis using a car.
do-it-yourself: assembly
With the help of a gearbox on a worm base, a cargo winch is formed. He can also create manual drive, which simplifies the assembly of the boom winch. The basis for the screw extensions are building supports. All the elements presented above form the basis of the design. In addition, we need drums for winches. It is worth noting that their independent production not everyone can do it, since the process is complex and laborious, as well as the need for specialized equipment and experience in carrying out such work.
The way out of the situation is the rotors from the electric motor, which can be used as a basis, and significantly simplify the task. Special attention should be given to the correspondence between the dimensions of the elements used and the future device. To do this, additional measurements are made using a ruler.
Additional elements
The platform is equipped with wheels for ease of movement. Items from the conveyor cart may come in handy. In the course of creating the structure, do not forget about this addition, since it is thanks to him that the simplest crane, assembled with your own hands, moves. To do this, you only need to remove the remote support elements, which does not cause any particular difficulties and is done in a short time. It is important to observe safety precautions, in particular, the boom must be installed on zero level to prevent loss of balance and fall of the crane.
Peculiarities
The optimum boom height is 5 meters. For its manufacture, a pipe with a diameter of about 8 cm is used. A profile of two corners is mounted in the base. You also need to create rotary mechanism for turning and lifting the boom, for this, an automobile hub from any truck is suitable vehicle. For the counterweight, special materials are not needed, since for them you can take standard bricks. You can create a crane with your own hands on the basis of caterpillar tracks and a bed. The last element can be taken from an unused machine.
It is worth noting that there is no need for a brake for the slewing mechanism and the winch, since it is not needed during the operation of the crane, and the finished device will work at low speed.
Design advantages
Suitable for the formation of a remote support structure and a common base. For the latter, according to experts, it will be optimal to use a channel of 200. The length of the thrust screws should be within 50 cm, due to which the crane can be mounted on any surface, including with a large number of irregularities. Thus, there is no need to prepare the site on which the building is being built.
Difficulties sometimes arise with wheels, since on loose soil they can roll badly and burrow into it. Therefore, it is desirable to carry out work on solid ground. After construction is completed, the structure is dismantled into its constituent elements for storage.
What can be done for the garage
When repairing a car on your own, it often becomes necessary to remove the engine, so many car owners are wondering how to make a crane with their own hands. by the most simple option is a lift, the creation of which will require a manual winch, racks on triangular supports with wheels and a transverse pipe.
On the upper part of the racks, fastenings for the pipe are fixed by welding. It is welded to the vertical post and the rollers are mounted on the beam, subsequently they are used to move the cable. In this case, it is not necessary to purchase a winch, as you can make this design on one's own.
Such a device will not clutter up the space, it can be disassembled, and separately the cross beam and supports will not take up much space. A crane, created for the garage with his own hands, is capable of lifting and moving a load weighing no more than 800 kg. Its main advantage is the absence of the need to purchase expensive materials.
Lift
As noted earlier, the winch can be made independently. This will require a drum equipped with a cable; it must be fixed on a structure made of pipes with a square section. A small sprocket with chain drive is mounted on the electric drive, and a large sprocket is mounted on the edge of the drum. To create a manual winch, a shaft equipped with a drum is complemented by a handle.
To replace and repair most parts in a car, a flyover or pit is required; if they are not available, you can use a lift. Despite the risks involved in working with similar device, its creation is justified by economic benefits and practical benefits.
A do-it-yourself bridge crane-trolley assembled with a winch is the simplest option, while the machine is installed on platforms after lifting to the desired height. There is also a scissor design, which is distinguished by the absence of the possibility of a cable break, which the previous version cannot guarantee.
scissor crane
The base and platform of the scissor lift are made of channels. Two-section distributor, pump, bushings, and necessary for scissors.
A do-it-yourself UAZ crane is capable of lifting loads weighing more than 500 kg. It can also be removed upon completion of work. The main purpose of the device is to fix the retractable supports. The basis of the structure is made of a thick-walled square, fixed to the frame with several bolts. Retractable pores hold onto the bumper and lift the rear of the car.
Crane "Pioneer"
The mechanism makes it possible to simplify the implementation of many repair and construction works, as well as to ensure the performance of actions that cannot be performed without additional lifting devices. The design is suitable for cargo with various volumes and sizes, while it can be installed on the floors of houses under construction, in pits and on the roof.
Among the main components, it is worth noting the rotary and support frames, the control panel. The device does not cause difficulties in the process of use and the application of significant physical effort. Management is within the power of every person, even without relevant experience.
Many owners of private houses and summer cottages are engaged in the creation of lifting structures. Their distribution is due to the fact that each part of the mechanism, regardless of its complexity, can be performed in the desired way and with the necessary functionality. In addition to moving heavy loads, such as monolithic blocks, such cranes allow the delivery of light objects to great heights.
Unfortunately, the creation of hydraulic devices, as a rule, is not possible. But, despite this, the crane (do-it-yourself), the photo of which is presented below, is easy to operate and has sufficient load capacity.
Assembling the Pioneer Crane
Many details can be found, surprisingly, in a landfill. For homemade mechanism the main components are a rectangular pipe and an I-beam. It is important that the latter easily fit in the pipe. To create a telescopic assembly for an I-beam, sliding guides are made. It is worth noting that they must be lubricated with special compounds to reduce the degree of friction.
For the operation of the device, cables with a small diameter are also required. They can be purchased at a hardware store. For fixing the swivel and support frame often a channel is used. It also ensures a tight mounting of the device on any surface. As a rule, it is the roof of a building under construction. Manufacture is required in accordance with safety regulations rectangular platform as a ballast, while it will reduce the likelihood of problems while the do-it-yourself crane is in operation. An electric motor connected to the winch is used to start the lifting process.
Homemade lifting devices are now becoming increasingly popular. During construction, when working in the garage, you often have to move heavy loads. In construction, manual transport takes a significant amount of time, and it is not always possible to install ramps or scaffolding. In any case, it is much easier and more efficient to use lifts.
Crane diagram
The same applies to the automotive theme, a garage with a lift is much more convenient to use. Most simple lifts They are an ordinary beam, rigidly fixed at one end, and a movable block is installed at the other end. A rope is thrown over the block, with the help of which the loads are tightened manually.
Such homemade lift quite simple to manufacture, but from a practical point of view, very inconvenient. Firstly, the load is still lifted manually, and secondly, the dismantling and installation of the beam from one place to another takes even more time than simply dragging weights. Similar mechanisms are used in log houses.
Materials and tools:
- pillar supports;
- wooden top beam;
- metal guide;
- pulley wheel;
- bearings;
- chain hoist;
- spacers;
- pulley;
- welding machine.
If the question of how to make a log cabin lift yourself makes you wonder, then here is a fairly simple solution. On 2 vertically dug pillar supports, an upper beam is installed with a length slightly greater than the length of the future structure. Such a gap makes it possible to drag the logs directly from the stack to the installation site.
The wooden beam must be provided with a metal guide on top, along which the mechanism will move. Further, the technology is simple, the wheel-pulley on the bearing is connected to the L-shaped metal part, to the other end of which is attached a manual chain hoist with a load capacity of at least 750 kg. Such a minimum is explained by the fact that the weight of a thirty-centimeter-wide log house ranges from 270 to 400 kg, depending on the moisture content of the wood.
Pillars for such a construction must be at least 20 cm in diameter, and the beam, based on the load, is a beam of at least 15X20 cm in cross section.
The guide is a piece of reinforcement, to which, at equal distances, not more than half a meter, the tips of the nails are welded. They will attach the guide to the wooden beam.
The beam is fixed a couple of tens of cm away from the poles in order to avoid coupling between the transport device and the pole.
To strengthen the structure, spacers are installed on the nailed beam. If the height of the pillars is 4-5 m, then for stability they must be dug into the ground by 1 m and spacers should be installed on the side to which the beam is shifted.
The pulley, it is desirable that it has sides, is put on the guide and the lift is ready for operation.
Homemade crane
With individual construction, you can not do without a crane, which can also be done if necessary with your own hands.
A homemade crane will help to mount ceilings, foundations and all other structural elements, due to its ability to fall below the zero mark by 2.5 m and rise to a height of about 2 m.
Such a crane allows you to transport cargo over a distance of 3 m. For home construction, the proposed opportunities should be enough.
This design does not provide for a swivel mechanism, since the crane is not designed for loads of more than 300 kg and is easily rotated by hand along with the entire structure.
In order to make a crane with your own hands, you will need:
- 4 telescopic tubes with an external diameter of 140 mm,
- three-meter I-beam,
- metal corners for supporting structures,
- hoist or hand winch.
Homemade crane
Telescopic pipes are welded in pairs with the ends of the beams, consisting of two adjoining angles 1.5 and 0.5 m long, thus, 2 U-shaped structures are obtained, which, for stability, are welded by the beam along the base and reinforced with triangular spacers.
Additional support corners are welded to the smaller frame, which will serve as the back support of the crane, to prevent the future lifting device from tipping over.
An I-beam is welded in the center of the lower part of the horizontal beams so that the smaller frame is on the edge of the I-beam, and the larger one is a little further than 1.5 m from the smaller one.
A winch is attached to the bottom of the I-beam, which will be a horizontal mobile device, while a telescopic system will help move loads in a vertical direction.
Lift in the garage
How to make a homemade lift in the garage? Motorists quite often resort to self-repair vehicle, and manually removing a car engine is not an easy task.
For such purposes, it is simply necessary to have a garage lift, even if it is made by hand. The collapsible beam crane system does not take up much space, and is made from:
- transverse pipe,
- square racks on triangular supports equipped with wheels,
- manual winch.
The pipe is inserted into the fixtures welded to the top of the uprights and secured with bolts. The winch is welded to a vertical post, and 2 rollers are welded to the beam, along which the cable from the winch moves. The winch in the garage is also easily done by hand.
After use homemade faucet the beam is disassembled into 2 supports and cross beam that fit in any corner of the garage. The advantage of such a beam crane is that its creation does not require special skills and materials, everything can be found at hand.
In addition, a beam crane will allow you to lift and transport loads up to 800 kg within the garage.
Homemade winch for the garage. The design of the winch assumes the presence of a drum with a cable, which is attached to the shaft to a frame made of square pipes. A large sprocket is attached to the outer edge of the drum, and a small sprocket is attached to the electric drive on a chain drive. If the winch is planned to be manual, then a handle is attached to the shaft on which the drum is fixed.
Car lift in the garage. To repair a car in the garage, a pit or overpass should be provided, but it is easier to organize a lift. Although this is a rather risky event, it makes practical and economic sense to equip a lift in the garage with your own hands.
The simplest car lift is the already described overhead crane with a winch, in which case, after climbing to required height the car is put on platforms. But there is a risk of cable breakage, so there is another garage lift.
To make a scissor lift you will need:
- channel, from which the platform and base are made,
and for the manufacture of scissors suitable:
- double beams,
- hydraulic cylinder,
- bushings,
- pump,
- distributor into two sections.
The beams are fastened with bushings according to the principle of scissors, and a hydraulic cylinder with a handle helps to raise the scissors to the desired height.
Those who are engaged in car repair can not do with one jack. A crane is needed to pull the engine out. Of course, this option http://sdm-group.com.ua/catalog/mostoviekrani is not needed in the garage, but here is a reduced and modernized version, and besides, it is also collapsible, useful to many motorists and not only.
And it's not an industrial product. This beam crane was made by some craftsmen in their garage with their own hands.
This photo shows the main dimensions. 
The main materials used were:
For transverse rod seamless labor with a diameter of 100mm and a length of 4150mm
For rod supports, a pipe with a diameter of 110 mm (cut a piece of 1200 mm long into two identical parts
Fixing bolts of supports to the rod M:16
Racks are made of square pipes 100x100mm, length 2350 mm
Bevels and base - this is a corner 100x100mm
The rollers mounted on the crane-beam are parts of the lift door drive. They are attached to a 50mm strip of metal and welded onto the bar with an overlap and onto one of the bar supports.
The size of this beam crane was not chosen by chance. This model is designed to work with cars.
The mobility of the structure is ensured by ordinary rollers welded to the vertical racks from a storage container.
The disassembled design of our beam crane takes up very little space.
The lifting mechanism is a conventional worm-type hand winch welded to a vertical rack. Its carrying capacity is somewhere around 800kg. Driven by a steel cable. . 
It is possible to adapt the electric winch if desired, but there is no special need for this.
The above construction is not a dogma. This option was made for certain tasks and the material at hand. Any engine passenger car it is pulled out easily, the Volga calmly raises by the hood. On sale, if you look, you can find a similar crane industrial production but the price will be great. The idea was proposed to you, but if you want to implement it, it's your business.