Hanging it Up

Looking for experiences people have had with putting their CC's on hang hooks while working on them in their garage.

Saw this picture:

on Chucky's 66 Mustang Rebuild post.

Getting ready to spruce up my 71 SN. My planned work is to do gel coat and windshield buffing, complete fixture tearoff, seat and carpet re-do's, etc. Probably not an engine pull yet, but might tinker on it. I was thinking about using a couple engine hoists, but then I saw Chucky's rigs. I am going to be under it, so I kinda want to trust the set-up.

So I'm interested in how others have approached getting it off the trailer and making workable hang/stand jigs that can roll. Would love to see pictures.

[Follow-on question is how to pull an engine out while in my 8-foot ceiling garage. Last time we built a giant A-frame, but that was outside.]

Before I finished my garage with insulation and fire rated sheetrock I had access to the floor joists, In my 110 year old home these are 2 1/4" x 10" beams.
I wanted to paint my trailer. We installed a couple of Eye bolts in the floor joists above my garage floor. I used a come a long and lifted the boat straight up off the trailer.
Secured it with a Tie down strap, 10,000 pound rated each, one at each end and pulled the trailer out for repair.   I had to lift the rear and then the front but it worked very easy.
Years ago I had to repair my 78 Nautique. In a buddy's lot we lifted the boat one with his Tow Truck and set it down on several large used tires. They were stacked to keep the prop and rudder off the ground. That worked also.

Just a safety comment from me - you mention you'll be under the boat, which we all end up doing once we get them in the air. For the same reason you never trust a jack under a car, you use jackstands for safety, you can't trust a gantry either. As someone mentioned above blocks and a board for a softener are good, just something that insures if the boat falls there's something thicker and stronger than you stopping it from crushing you.

Here are pictures SunFun must have forgot he posted a while back in the link below   

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Oh my GOSH! That's a beefy dolly that Tfreeman made!
I suppose he had to have it so fully supported because he was ripping the stringers out and didn't want the now-flimsier hull twisting. But wow,

Yeah, SunFun's gantry was definitely not going to parallelogram.

Thanks for digging that stuff up, KENO! I appreciate it. And I also appreciate your pointing out that Google search can dig into correctcraftfan. Good method, so that I don't have to bug members for digging up history that's already been hashed. Although I suspect some of you get a kick out of proving your memory strength.

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KENO wrote: Google, She's just so smart If you're looking for something you said you can type your name in along with the info you're looking for to narrow things down some. it would be.........................correctcraftfan BrianSki followed by the topic Sometimes you can get buried in information.

I tried using Google...however, she says that my comments are not worth recording....

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