How To Lift Heavy Beams by Yourself

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The Ultimate Handyman shows you how to lift large beams by yourself using simple tools from harbor freight and common building supplies form Home Depot.
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Super helpful. Your units are foreign to me, but even without understanding your measurements, you got the point across.

cxgamer
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I did this when I built my huge wooden patio by myself. I basically used a bunch of tie downs and strap a taller beam next to my posts and run a piece of lumber across and mounted the hoist. It worked like a charm. People were shocked how I manage to get 4x10x20 beams up by myself lol.
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KoiAquaponics
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Super supportive. I have been lifting a number of different building materials on a house build that I am working on, mostly solo. I actually considered those very same chain hoists and I made the exact same lifts that you did out of 4x4s, yours were much more stout and I will go back and reinforce with the Simpson hardware....I even bough and used the same 1/2" eye bolt. Amazing we were on the same track. Thank you so much for this video, so supportive.

bracsyller
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Brilliant - I love the simplicity and efficiency that this brings. I am tackling a covered deck patio where I will be hoisting a few Glulam's and I will be replicating this to do so. Great work!

lukecardoni
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Very well presented, well planned and more important, one of the SAFEST methods I have seen to lift heavy items. Ive seen plenty of sketchy ways to do this online and RL and Id be confident and secure using this method. Well Done.

markcothran
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Quite helpful. I was trying to figure out how to do something like this. Previously I use two ladders and a friend and I just muscled a heavy beam up. It felt VERY dangerous. This is the right way to raise a beam without an existing overhead support structure. Thanks!

russfellows
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Oh my God, you saved me. I was wondering how the hell I was gonna do this by myself.
Thank you

Heli
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This is brilliant. I am doing a post and beam pavilion for a customer. First time ever with heavy Timbers like this, and I’ll be honest, I was a little worried. Not now though. Thank you for sharing this!

jefflong
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I am using this tip for sure. Thank you. I liked subscribed and hit the bell on this. All that aside this is not just a little OP but a lot OP. It’s always good know the limits of things. There are great references to help people calculate wood weight, and also load capacities such as what weight a 4x4 over a horizontal span can support. I’m not creative enough to come up with the solution you did but hopefully encouraging folks to do this background research can help safety, cost and level of waste. I found info out there that puts your beams each at about 390 lbs. which is a weight that shockingly can be supported with a single 4x4 at the center of an 8 ft. span. Hopefully this comes across helpful and not rude.

chaddoyle
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Fairly genius! I'll have to remember that for future projects, and you can be sure I'll spread the video around.

threeriversforge
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You would think cannot be done by one person? such a great idea👍🏻👏

robiram
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I usually do a lot of the work by myself too, very smart idea man, I'd use it. thanks for sharing.

rafaelfogassa
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The deck screws used on the Simpson ties are the WRONG FASTENERS, they have no shear strength and the force will cut them very easily. Luckily this was overbuilt, so it didn’t become an issue. Nails or Simpson screws next time.

toddheinen
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Great, you've given me tremendous ideas. I am doing a 10 foot high apartment extension under an existing horse stable structure and need to go up just the beams and other structures. Thank you

tubicli
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Nice job of making the best of working alone. Well done.

Bigfoot
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Genius. I will be assembling a carport myself soon and trying to figure out such lifting contraption pkus once up how to hold fast whilst i attach othe beams until it can support itself

pmacc
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Very ingenious! Thank you so much for this idea!

BDBD
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Hmm. This is a fabulous way to do heavy beam lifting it seems! I have to soon lift a 20’ 6”x12”. I’ won’t have a long 4x4 for that span. Im thinking I could mount the hoists directly on the 2 L shaped 4x4 brackets? Any reason you didn’t do it that way? Great video!

SouthernYak
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Thanks for the video. But i gotta ask the obvious...how did you get the beackets and cross beam up there?

qingdow
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The lifting hoist is genius. How do you transport a 16 feet long beam or any 2x wood that are longer than 8 feet long back from the big box store or lumber yard unless you had them deliver?

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