[sbauman2]

 

[1937Austin]

Never pulled one with a tree hoist, but my dad let me setup a outside A frame engine hoist in our backyard, and it got used a lot by me and my friends. It had 8"x8" upright posts, an I beam top cross piece, and 4"x4"s for the angled braces on the uprights. When I came home from the service it was still there, and we used it again. But sometime after I moved out it disappeared, and I never asked where it went. Figured dad tore it down, or gave it away? He wasn't a car guy, and neither were my three brothers.

 

[mmhotrod]

I used my bosses tow truck boom pole at the gas station. Never could do it at home. I rented and couldn't do it in front of the house. I didn't work on cars till I was 18. Late bloomer I am.....

 

[sbauman2]

When I was a kid my dad had a 1 ton chain fall. The first time I used it was when I was 14 years old, my cousin borrowed it and I helped him pull the motor out of his 56 Ford. His neighbors had a huge Avocado tree that had a big branch that extended over into my cousins back yard. We took some rope, wrapped it around the branch a few times, hung the chain fall and went to work. When I was 17 I needed to pull the motor out of my first car. We lived an old 2 story house that had a balcony that extended over the driveway and had some big exposed 8 x 12 beams. I got a piece of pipe wide enough to lay across 2 of them and used the chain fall. It got more use with some of my buddies cars. Nobody had the extra cash to rent a cherry picker back then. When I moved into my first apartment a buddy and I rented a small garage/shop. The owner had an A frame made out of pipe that he let us use whenever we needed it. When I bought my first home the prior owner had built a great 2 car garage in the back. I took 2 2x4's long enough to bolt on either side of the garage rafters with a shorter 2x4 sandwiched in between them and hung the chain fall from it with a couple hooks above to hang the chain from when not using it. It got a lot of use because I was building motors for extra money back then. When I got married and moved, the chain fall went with me. It's been sitting in a milk crate in the attic for the last 33 years because now I borrow a neighbors cherry picker when I need to.

 

[Jimbo8v92]

Thats awsome! Ive never used a tree but used tow trucks lol.

 

[mmhotrod]

Did somebody say cherry picker?😂

 

[Jimbo8v92]

Did somebody say cherry picker?😂

Haha yep top of the line 😂😂