[SEL] rigging engine for lift

[Dave Rotigel]

Two fairly easy ways of rigging can be found at: 
http://www.oldengine.org/members/rotigel/trailer/16_GallowayTrailer/fly2.jpg 
and 
http://www.oldengine.org/members/rotigel/trailer/16_GallowayTrailer/June%2010th/Mvc-003s.jpg 

         Dave
PS, http://www.oldengine.org/members/rotigel/FairbanksM/FMRemoval/10.jpg 
seemed to work as well!

At 09:28 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote:
>G'day Peter;
>   So far I've had good luck with a channel thru the spokes and chain around
>the cylinder. Note the "U Bolt" securing the flwheel to the channel. See;
>
>http://community.webshots.com/photo/48249342/48266488kAkjzn
>
>Just lately we lifted a 1400 lb 4hp HC Horizontal Famous using the same
>setup with no problems.  Of course your F-M I believe is a little different
>setup but wouldn't this setup work?? Nice and simple and feel good about it.
>
>   We are now thinking of fabricating a maintenance stand much like an engine
>stand so the main casting can be turned on two axis.  This would come in
>handy for disassembly/assembly, painting and such and will be a monster.
>
>Take Care,
>RickinMt.
>
>
>
>
> > Does anyone have any . . . um . . . elegant solutions to rigging something
> > like a 3hp F-M Z?  I've just finished making a truck for it and am tired
> > of
> > my Rube Goldberg-and-baling-twine inventions that attach the engine to the
> > chain falls.  Chains, rope, tow straps, under the cylinder, through the
> > spokes, around crankcase--and never twice the same way.  I'm sick of it, I
> > tell ya!  Would it have been so hard for them to cast some eyes into the
> > top of the engine?  Thanks for any tips.
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