welcome to Steve Rob reviews today I'm going to attach this corn Barrel hoist I think that's
the best thing I can call it but this is the rig setup right here if you haven't seen it before how
I made it I'll put a link down below but we're gonna go up in that tree right there I got all
my stuff in the back of the trailer we're gonna get to it right now and I'm gonna show you how
easy it is to mount this up on the tree I'm all by myself today it's early in the morning and she's
cool let's get to her well I just thought I'd show you the setup before I actually go up the ladder
and it's about 14 feet up to there and all I've done is got my pole saw just kind of zipped off
the branches I said went up on that spruce so let's get up there and let's attach this thing
okay you know what if I mount it right here I'm gonna hit into them branches
there so I gotta lower this down a bit Plan B okay that's a lot better okay
there we go just get myself a screw here yeah you wouldn't want to drop this screw either okay where
we're gonna put it I'd say right about there put another one on the bottom set it and forget it
okay this is the easy part I've said that before okay on the end of the yeah the tubing here I
filled it full of white lithium grease so it doesn't rust onto the stub shaft now
okay now you're wondering what's missing well I'm gonna show you next well there we are right there
okay so I got the winch just kind of rigged on to a strap there and show you the hookup I got
on there just one of these very simple to do and I had this old strap just sitting around in this
old here we go right there I'll just show you how to there so this is bit about this is about 20
years old this old thing here and this ratchet strap will just hold that strap in there and I
just wound it around here just to keep the snow and everything off it I mean you've got a lot of
access anyways and we just kind of go up the tree a bit here there we go right there now that's what
the holes were for so you could put a couple of Rochester and these are 1,000 pounds each so I
mean there's no problem that's holding in there and you could see how nice that goes around the
tree and it's just ratchet straps on there real easy now that's not gonna go nowhere so let's get
the green barrel out and fill it full of corn and hoist her up well we've got the corn all
in the barrel it's ready to go and so it does take a bag and a half so I only put one bag in
for now and if you look on the bottom there I got one of them timers and I'm only setting that for
five seconds once a day at 9:30 a.m. and you know what that will that will spin just under a pound
in five seconds so let's start hoisting this up let's see if she all comes together like I hope
I'm going to show you how much that's bending up there can you guys see the bend in that I
would have never thought that that started to bend like that would you now you got me
thinking whether 80 pounds is actually too much weight for that little bar Plan B well
this is my plan B here so what I decided to do is I had a cable I toss it to the end there see
on the end right there and brought it over the tree wrapped around a couple of times
and stuck another greasy ratchet strap on there and yeah hopefully that's gonna do
the trick it's got a little bit of a bend to it but you know what I'm hoping it's gonna work so
I set the timer here for 9:30 and while I'm up there ya scared the bejesus out of me up there
were that spinner going off for five seconds so let's see we get this thing cranked up
now she's lifting off the ground you know
first thing I got to do is I got too much lying on here so it makes
it difficult to wind her up and I'll fix that the next time I'm up there
yeah I got too much line and it wants to supply it on here just pull it all off to one side so
you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna lower this back down and I got to get some of this lying off
because this is just driving me nuts well this is a half an hour later and I'll show you what
I got going on here yeah I had to cut all this cable hair way too much cable I mean that's a
bird's nest right there already but I mean it's a lot better than before and first I thought I
made my hacksaw cut it I thought I'll try these side cutters guys the side cutters here that's a
really good pair of side cutters eight cutter okay so while I was back at the shop I found let's see
if I can just show you here now we go from the end here all the way over to the tree and what
I did is I found one of these yeah so that's a lot better than you know fooling around with
the ratchet strap and everything so we'll give this a try and we'll see how this one goes but
I do have a better plan for this pull and of course on the next one that I put up I'm gonna
take all that extra line under there first so let's see we get this thing cranked up finally
well I'd say that was a success and you know what taking that extra line off made a huge difference
guys I'm saying we're about seven feet off the ground there or better and I tell you what I'm
going to do I've got another one of these I have to set up for another two weeks three
weeks and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this beam back to the to my shop and I'm
going to weld a little bit of a gusset on here so this doesn't Bend but I think the
theory is sound and you know yeah hide you run a cable along here which is fine but tell you
what I'm gonna try putting a gusset up here you'll see it on the next one I put up it's
up there guys so I think that was a success as far as I'm concerned yeah you have to actually
trial and error right I mean I don't know who can actually build something put it up there
and guarantee that's going to go as you wanted but you could see how easy it is to mount the
bracket to the tree that's the main part and then the only thing I have to straighten out
yeah take all that extra cable off the winch and support that main beam with a couple of gussets
that'll stop it from bending and I think it's a good project and I think one that everybody can
actually do if they want to have a corn barrel raised up in the air eight feet because that
that's up there guys okay thank you very much for joining me here today and look forward to
the next time I'm gonna try putting another one up and hopefully it's going to be a lot easier and a
lot faster and maybe he'll a couple of guests too these guys take care come back again if you ever
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