How To Lift Really Heavy Stuff with Your 3PH iMatch

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mars1952

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I stumbled onto this idea one day when I had a bunch of very large rocks to move. I moved most of them with my FEL but I could barely get them off the ground. Some of them were too heavy to lift with the FEL. I remembered that the 3PH was much stronger than the FEL. I stared at the iMatch hooked up to my 3PH and tried to decide where to weld on some hooks. That is when I noticed that the iMatch already had 3 very strong hooks on it. I dropped my Bush Hog and backed up to the stone. I draped the center of chain over the lower hooks and sawed the ends of the chain under the sides of the rock. Then I draped the one end of the chain over the top hook and coupled the other end to it. Using this technique I can pick up rocks and logs that are much too heavy to pick up with the FEL.

I made a short video of the technique and posted it on Youtube. Here is the link:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_qH0InaS8"]How to Lift Heavy Stuff with your 3PH[/ame]

Please Comment, share and "Like" my videos.
Thanks, Mars
P.S. A picture is worth a thousand words and a 10 minute video has about one hundred thousand pictures in it.
 
It has been pointed out to me that looping the chain across the two lower imatch hooks could cause the lower part of the imatch to draw together. To prevent this hook the ends of the chain to the lower hooks and cinch the chain up in the middle at the top.
Mars
 
I have a 3 point QA attachment and then put my QA pallet forks on it, done deal!
 
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