Homemade spreader beam

Ignoramus19471 · 2006-11-02T15:21:22+00:00

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. oooooooooo ========================= ========================= @ @ 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 i

Nov 02, 2006 23 Replies

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Nick Mueller 19 years ago

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Christopher Tidy 19 years ago

I can't comment on Dachau, but I visited Sachsenhausen last year and there was the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign built into the steel gate.

Chris

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Steve Ackman 19 years ago

It was sure there 10 years before.

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Lew Hartswick 19 years ago

Well I was there in 1955 and it sure was then. :-) ...lew...

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