We strengthen homemade lifting devices. We strengthen homemade lifting devices. What characteristics should a garage lift have?

It doesn’t matter whether you are building your dream home or renovating an old one country house, you cannot do without reliable tools and construction equipment. Almost any device today can be bought in a store, but purchases are not always pleasing with quality and even less often with prices. Our forum members know how to reduce the burden on the family budget and offer recipes for proven mechanisms and tools for construction, made with their own hands.

Truck...from the old four

Bring sand, crushed stone, boards, transport a concrete mixer and an old refrigerator... The need to deliver materials arises constantly during construction. Member FORUMHOUSE g8 o8 r8 found a way to save on freight transportation: he converted his old four into a truck!

Budget auto tuning cost the craftsman 3.5 thousand rubles - this was the cost of materials: an iron square, corners, galvanized steel for the loading body. Loading body g8 o8 r8 made it high to protect it from rainwater: to close the gaps between it and the car body, metal canopies were welded around the perimeter.

The rear side of the body is lifted with a 12-volt winch. This is convenient when unloading bulk materials and dragging boards, stones, furniture, etc. into the body.

g8o8r8 FORUMHOUSE Member

At our metal collection point, they give five thousand rubles for any car. This inspired the idea of using my decommissioned four-wheeler for household needs: bringing earth, peat, stones, sand to the dacha. And if you install a subframe, weld a blade, install chains, you’ll see that you’ll be able to throw snow in the winter.

Construction materials lift

One more useful homemade product, which will make life at a construction site much easier. For example, like the one from the FORUMHOUSE member Ali-bastre.Starting to pour monolithic walls, a forum member was tired of manually lifting heavy buckets of concrete and made a simple but ingenious design.

The basis of the lift was metal staircase. To securely fix the ladder on the wall, in a profiled steel pipe 15x15 Ali-bastre drilled the holes and reverse side put a washer on the pipe, securing it with a cotter pin. The trolley on which building materials are placed moves up and down on bearings No. 304 using an electric winch. It is located almost parallel, at a slight angle to the stairs, due to which the movement occurs smoothly.

Ali-bastre FORUMHOUSE member

It’s not for nothing that they say: laziness is the engine of progress. My lift lifts six buckets of concrete easily!

Planer for aerated concrete

Unlike stationary cutting machines, this device You can move freely through scaffolding and cut foam right on the spot. At the same time, the sheet can be expanded not only in length, but also in thickness - for this, two profiles are additionally attached to the EPS with nails. According to a forum member, the cost of a mobile machine is 800-1000 rubles, and even with intensive use it will faithfully serve for several construction seasons in a row.

Other examples, including stationary ones, are in this topic.

Comfortable grinder

Have you noticed that holding a small grinder by the top handle is convenient, but a large one is not? The big one always tries to escape from your hands when biting into metal. Having such a sad experience, some are generally afraid to use a large grinder. So that the grinder always remains in your hands, forum member chichic designed a homemade handle for the instrument with a natural grip.

To earn decent money, a professional car mechanic needs a garage, a set of tools and a lift. Making such a device with your own hands is much cheaper than buying industrial equipment.

Organizing your own business

Change social status Having a garage will help (agree to rent a room if you cannot organize a workshop on your own territory).

You must register as an entrepreneur. After receiving a patent or a certificate of entrepreneurial activity from a territorial government agency, you can seriously engage in business, purchase tools and metal products:

channel;

I-beams;

corners;

rods;

profile (square) pipes;

corrugated iron (for platform decking);

semiautomatic welding machine;

angle grinder;

electrodes, cutting wheels, bolts and nuts of different sizes.

Helpful advice: before you start making a lift for do it yourself car, visit service centers or retail establishments that sell specialized equipment for machine repair. Look with your own eyes and study carefully design features mechanisms that engineers worked on in the factory.

Common lift design

There are several equipment options for lifting cars to a given height. It makes it easier for technicians to inspect, diagnose and repair faulty vehicles.

Common designs are made with two or four racks that raise the platform for cars, with a mechanical or hydraulic drive.

simplest homemade lift can be made from I-beam or a bracket with a winch. But owners of expensive limousines and jeeps will run away at the sight of such equipment and never return.

You can also make a homemade lift, with which the car is tilted on its side (the brackets are screwed to two right or left wheel axles). Such equipment is used in emergency cases, when it is necessary to urgently eliminate a malfunction under the bottom of the car, and all regular places in the workshop are already occupied.

Putting an idea on paper

Draw a sketch of the future lift on a sheet of paper. Mark the garage floor at the planned location for equipment installation. Then take a tape measure and measure the distance from the walls to the studs, the height between the floor and the ceiling. Write down the received data in a notebook or on a sheet with a sketch.

Knowing overall dimensions of cars, for which you plan to make a lift, a drawing (previously made measurements will be the basis for scale calculations) can already be developed by yourself.

He will help you draw up an estimate that will indicate required quantity rolled metal products (total length of channels, I-beams and angles) and others consumables.

Now you can go to the trading base and buy everything you need at wholesale prices. Take rolled metal with a reserve. Each cut with a grinder turns three millimeters of durable steel into microscopic dust.

How to make a homemade lift

First of all, use a scriber to apply marking lines on the channels and corners in order to cut them into blanks from which the lift will be assembled with your own hands. Check the results of your work. Blanks must be made accurate to the millimeter in length.

Two- or four-post units lift vehicles using a worm gear or hydraulic cylinder. A mechanical drive is located inside each support. It consists of a shaft with a strip thread cut on its surface. Venues for support bearings with a centering mechanism are electric welded to the lower ends of the racks. The “foot” for the platform is screwed onto the shaft. Once assembled, they are inserted into the internal cavity of the rack. The upper cover of the support with the bearing is screwed with bolts and nuts.

Approximately the same work must be done when assembling a hydraulic lift with your own hands.

Tipper for car

The simplest design for tipping a car on its side. It will come in handy in any garage assistive device for prompt repair of vehicles.

To make such a lift with your own hands, you need to make:

two brackets that are attached to the front and rear axle of the wheel;

two support platforms(to hold the machine in an overturned position).

Connect the brackets to the platforms using hinges. Thus, two identical structures are made. For the turning mechanism, metal pins with bushings or bearings are used.

Supplies you will need:

metal square pipes 50x50 mm or a corner with a shelf of a similar size;

two fingers and four bushings (these parts must be turned on a lathe);

small pieces of thick sheet metal(for making scarves).

All structural parts are welded together. The hinged brackets need to be connected to the platforms - and the tipper is ready for work.

If you're just starting out as a business owner, keep in mind that you don't need a lift to repair cars. It is enough to have an overpass or inspection hole. It is more difficult to carry out restoration repairs in such conditions, but it is quite possible.

The main problem you may encounter is the difficulty of making a tape threaded shaft for the rack. This is a key part, without which it is impossible to assemble the lift. You cannot make such a screw at home with your own hands. Shafts are manufactured at industrial machines. It is quite possible that such equipment is simply not available in your locality.

If you have an irresistible desire to create a modern workshop, but there is no way to make a car lift yourself, you can purchase equipment on credit or on a leasing basis.

Very often, a household needs some kind of device, which is usually expensive to buy, and even irrational, because it doesn’t last long.
Therefore, if you have hands, it’s a good idea to make homemade mechanisms.
For example, a concrete mixer. And you need it once every few years, and you can’t go anywhere without it - it’s hard and long to stir it in a trough with a shovel.
A very good option is homemade manual concrete mixer.
The basis of the concrete mixer is a two-hundred-liter iron barrel. On both sides of the barrel two axle shafts are welded from water pipes. The axis of rotation passes through the barrel diagonally - when the barrel rotates, the cement-sand mixture rolls not only from top to bottom, but also from left to right.
A hermetically sealed hatch from an iron flask is welded to one edge (so that the entire mixture falls out without any residue). On one side (or on both) the axle shaft is made in the form of a gate to manually turn the barrel.

The axle shafts are mounted on a frame made of angles or pipes in bearing units.
The dry weight of the concrete mixer allows two people to manually load it into a cargo trailer or car body.
The algorithm for operating a concrete mixer is elementary. The barrel rotates to the hatch position on top. Buckets are filled with the required amount of sand and cement (already known from experience), and water is poured in. The hatch is locked with a bracket. Fifteen times in one direction, fifteen in the other - the concrete is ready.
Readiness concrete mixture can be identified by ear by the characteristic sounds when turning over. The strength required is not very great for one person. When the handles are made on both sides, you can twist the barrel together.
The barrel is placed in the hatch position on top, the hatch opens. By slowly turning the barrel, pour the finished concrete mixture into a bucket or other container.
If desired, an electric drive can be easily adapted to this design.
In one of the presented options, the drive is chain driven through a gearbox. An electric motor power of about 1 kW is quite enough.
Another interesting device is manual homemade snow blower.
The process of shoveling snow inside the estate requires a good wide shovel, and improving the shovel logically results in such a device.

It turns out something between a shovel and a grader. Initially, the snow blower was operated on wheels, but practice has shown that skis are more convenient.
Beveled knife with blade in right side. The structure is made mainly of aluminum tubes, so it is lightweight. The height of the knife while shoveling snow can be adjusted by the position of the snow blower handle. The arc-shaped handle allows you to row with both hands, which is very convenient.

Homemade lifting devices are currently becoming increasingly popular. During construction and when working in a garage, you often have to move heavy loads. In construction, manual transportation takes considerable 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. The simplest lifts 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 a homemade lift is quite simple to manufacture, but from a practical point of view it is very inconvenient. Firstly, the load is still lifted manually, and secondly, dismantling and installing a 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;
wheel-pulley;
bearings;
chain hoist;
spacers;
pulley;
welding machine.

If the question of how to make a lift for a log house yourself makes you think, then here is a fairly simple solution. An upper beam with a length of slightly longer future building. This gap makes it possible to drag logs directly from the stack to the installation site.

The wooden beam must be equipped with a metal guide on top along which the mechanism will move. Further, the technology is simple: a wheel-pulley on a bearing is connected to an L-shaped metal part, to the other end of which a manual chain hoist with a load capacity of at least 750 kg is attached. This 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.

The pillars for such a structure 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 the tips of the nails are welded at equal distances, no more than half a meter. They will attach the guide to the wooden beam.

The beam is fixed a couple of tens of cm away from the pillars to avoid coupling between the transport device and the pillar.

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 1 m and spacers must be installed on the side in which the beam shifts.

The pulley, preferably with sides, is put on the guide and the lift is ready for work.

Homemade crane

At individual construction you can’t do without a crane, which you can also make with your own hands if necessary.

A homemade crane will help install floors, foundations and all other structural elements, thanks 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 capabilities should be sufficient.

This design does not provide swivel mechanism, since the crane is not designed for loads exceeding 300 kg and can be easily rotated manually along with the entire structure.

In order to make a crane with your own hands, you will need:

4 telescopic pipes with an outer 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 to the ends of the beams, consisting of two adjacent corners 1.5 and 0.5 m long, thus obtaining 2 U-shaped structures, which for stability are welded to the base of the beam and reinforced with triangular spacers.

Additional support corners are welded to the smaller frame, which will serve as the rear support of the crane, to prevent the future lifting device from tipping over.

An I-beam is welded in the center of the bottom 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 the telescopic system will help move loads in the vertical direction.

Lift in the garage

How to make a homemade lift in the garage? Car enthusiasts quite often resort to self-repair vehicle, and removing a car engine by hand is not an easy task.

For such purposes, it is simply necessary to have a garage lift, even if you made it yourself. System collapsible crane beams do not take up much space, and are made from:

cross pipe,
square racks on triangular supports equipped with wheels,
manual winch.

The pipe is inserted into fasteners welded to the top of the racks and secured with bolts. The winch is welded to the vertical post, and 2 rollers are welded to the beam, along which the cable from the winch moves. A winch for the garage is also easy to do with your own hands.

After use homemade faucet the beam is disassembled into 2 supports and cross beam, which 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, the beam crane will allow you to lift and transport loads of up to 800 kg within the garage.

Homemade winch for the garage. The design of the winch involves the presence of a drum with a cable, which is attached to a shaft to a frame made of square pipes. A large sprocket is attached to the outer edge of the drum, and a small one is attached to chain transmission attached to the electric drive. If the winch is planned to be manual, then a handle is attached to the shaft on which the drum is mounted.

Car lift in the garage. To repair a car, a pit or overpass must be provided in the garage, but it is easier to organize a lift. Although this is a rather risky undertaking, equipping a lift in the garage with your own hands makes practical and economic sense.

The simplest car lift is the already described overhead crane with a winch; in this case, after lifting to the required height, the car is placed on platforms. But there is a risk of the cable breaking, so there is another garage lift.

To make a scissor lift you will need:

channels from which the platform and base are made,

and for making scissors the following are suitable:

I-beams,
hydraulic cylinder,
bushings,
pump,
distributor into two sections.

The beams are fastened with bushings using the scissor principle, and a hydraulic cylinder with a handle helps raise the scissors to the desired height.