Love that gin pole!

Had to clear out a lot of stuff last Friday (it was our township's "junk day"). I've been hoarding several (try four!) old riding mowers in various stages of disassembly and deterioration for a while now, and the wife was ready to kill me because of the "junky" look of our wooded area (junk? JUNK!!!). Oh well, to keep the peace, I decided to take off work and deal with it. My dad (a spry 85) helped me. We loaded a lot of miscellaneous stuff, then finally unearthed (yeah, they had sunk into the turf) the four mowers. They were too heavy to lift into the back of the pickup (at least for us), so I unhooked the bush hog from the 8N and hooked up the gin pole. I was sceptical as to how well it would do with the heavy mowers. Surprise! It lifted them easily, and turned an otherwise back-straining, cuss-word-laced event into a cakewalk! We loaded two loads of "treasures" up in record time and were done before we knew it. Thank you, 8N and gin pole!

Ron

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This was for a Post Hole Digger. I just modified it to work for a boom pole. It can lift over 1,000 lbs no problem very strong design. Mark H.

This is one I made for going on my rear blade. It has a hand winch for raising stuff up. I can lift around 1,000 lbs with it. Got tired of removing the blade to put one on so I used a slip/in reciver hitch method to put it on fast when needed. Mark H.