For my lifting purposes, I sometimes wish I had a spreader beam. The ones I saw at McMaster are kind of expensive.
My lifting is limited to about 1,000 lbs.
I wanted to make a spreader beam by welding together two 1x1 x 14 gauge square tubing pieces (because that's what I have) with the length of 3 feet. They would be welded in parallel.
and then I would add on an eye on top and attach hooks on both ends.
My question is, would such a thing be good enough for 1,000 lbs lifts.
The top eye would be made of, say, 1 foot long 1/8" steel bar welded on top of the two 14 gauge bars.
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The @ characters represent hooks. === represents single square tubing piece (so they are welded along in parallel). The oooooooooo line is the lifting eye welded to the top.
Does anyone have any angineering data saying that it would, or would not, be capable of lifting 1000 lbs.
thanks
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