I noticed that my deck height did not exactly match my plans…? That is a bummer since the second platform does match my plans and the main deck is 8 inches higher, that equals two steps so my stairs come two more feet into the platform, hitting close to the middle of the platform.?? So today I went to get more posts since it is not easy to cut them longer.
Then we, my buddy G-Man and I had a couple of beers and took some pictures of his Dad’s, lets call him Sven, homebuilt crane.? Here you go:
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The top of the pivot inside and below the boom. 
Now in position to do some serious lifting. 
Here are the cable reels. I think the one on the left is the boom lift and the one on the right is for lifting the load. The controls are on the left by the electrical outlet. 
The green ?B? knob is for the brake. And the other controls. 
Closeup of one of the reels and the substantial cable. 
The other reel and the other substantial cable. Everything here is engineered to the max. 
The gearbox for one of the reels. The brake is the shiny piece near the top of the two pulleys with the belts going around them. 
The other gearbox with the motor and reel. 
From the cable opening into the innards. 
Close-up of the brake. Sometimes simple is best, in the old days all brakes were this simple. 
The other brake detail. There is a brake for lowering the boom and lowering the load. 
The boom pivot. There is likely some more techincal term for this point. 
Looking up at the boom and stuff. The boom is made of wood. 
A shot at the top and the pulleys. 
The track that it rotates on is a gear. 
This is a home brewed crane, pretty awesome sight. 
The lighting was pretty bad, so not much in the way of detail here. See the cables above and the boom. 
The diagonal coming off the top goes to a substantial footing, this puppy is going nowhere. Quite a few pulleys and extemely heavy duty cables. 
The engineer and builder of the crane. 
Rotating is a manual operation. A motor for turning is a future project. 
Now if we only had something to pickup. 
From here you see both of the stabilizers. 
Here is the whole thing from the water side. 
Close-up of the wheel and track. See the center of the pivot, the power cord is wrapped around the pivot. You don’t want to keep spinning it around too much. 
Looking inside yet again. 
Here is G-Man and his Dad DJ. DJ Built and Engineered the crane. 
There is DJ out from hiding. What a marvelous thing this crane is. 
Here is a close-up of the lid hanger. 
Here is one in use, holding open the doors for the cables and boom. 
Lowering the boom again. 
Another shot of the stabilizers. 
And we have seen this before. 
The other side of a reel. 
Look at that it looks like a face, with whiskers. 
Here we say goodbye for the day.
