Fifth Wheel Cherry Picker
Jack Middleton, Gaylord, Mich., sells Hardy outside wood-burning furnaces. He needed a way to lift the stoves onto his pickup bed when delivering them to customers. That prompted him to make a fifth wheel hitch that attaches to the back of a commercial engine hoist, which he then uses to lift the furnaces in and out of the pickup.
He removed the arms at the base of the engine hoist and attached short pieces of square tubing to a 5/16-in. coupler that hooks up to the ball hitch on his pickup. The hitch is held by pins to the bottom of the hoist.
"It doesn't alter the hoist in any way," says Middleton. "I can put the bottom arms back on and use the hoist as it was intended, or I can attach the fifth wheel coupler and slip the hoist into my pickup and use it to lift furnaces. I've used it to lift loads weighing up to 600 lbs., but I think it can handle loads weighing up to 1,100 lbs.
"My total cost was about $250."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jack Middleton, 5081 East Martin Lake Dr., Gaylord, Mich. 49735 (ph 231 546-3554).
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Fifth Wheel Cherry Picker MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 28-3-29 Jack Middleton, Gaylord, Mich., sells Hardy outside wood-burning furnaces. He needed a way to lift the stoves onto his pickup bed when delivering them to customers. That prompted him to make a fifth wheel hitch that attaches to the back of a commercial engine hoist, which he then uses to lift the furnaces in and out of the pickup.
He removed the arms at the base of the engine hoist and attached short pieces of square tubing to a 5/16-in. coupler that hooks up to the ball hitch on his pickup. The hitch is held by pins to the bottom of the hoist.
"It doesn't alter the hoist in any way," says Middleton. "I can put the bottom arms back on and use the hoist as it was intended, or I can attach the fifth wheel coupler and slip the hoist into my pickup and use it to lift furnaces. I've used it to lift loads weighing up to 600 lbs., but I think it can handle loads weighing up to 1,100 lbs.
"My total cost was about $250."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jack Middleton, 5081 East Martin Lake Dr., Gaylord, Mich. 49735 (ph 231 546-3554).
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