Anyway, forklift takes up less room than a cherry picker and an older one is generally always worth what you paid for it running or not. Even at my house I use the forklifts from lifting up the lawnmower to sharpen the blades, unloading lumber, moving the firepit ring to mow the lawn and my neighbors frequently need something loaded or unloaded which is always nice to keep them happy. The 3500 Komatsu is used several times a day. the weight of the beam and therefore is the additional weight which the beam can carry. I have a 3500 Komatsu, a 9K Hyster and a 5 ton bridge crane in my shop. Unistrut Load Capacity CalculatorBeam Load Calculation Guide. A 2500-4000 lb capacity propane forklift with an auto trans is such a sweet tool even around your house. This may come out of left field, but the single most useful tool I have ever bought is a forklift. One that has experience with lifting gear and understands the requirements. I would not take any chances with lifting gear if there's any possibility of a person being injured if it failed. This is coming from a guy who has done some real sketchy stuff when I was younger.

Unistrut is the original metal framing strut channel. A compact light duty manual 1/2 ton chanfall might only take up a foot, but a powered 1/2 ton hoist is going to be more like 2 feet. The general weight limit for Unistrut struts varies quite a lot. If you want to pull engines you need a 1/2 ton rated hoist. How tall is your garage ceiling? Hoists take a lot of vertical room by nature. Like say you wanted to attach a junior beam to the underside of your roof trusses- You would make up steel sections to spread the load on the top of the lower chord of the truss then bolt the top of your beam to that spreader. You need to calculate what your roof structure can support and your attaching method has to distribute the load so it isn't a point load on the structure.

How much weight will unistrut hold