Gin pole and hoist for my Bckhoe

[Frank S]

So the roofing hoist is electric, how do you operate the tractor with that attachment? Extension cord seems to be a pain to keep from being ran over and such. I'm surprised you didn't put a hydraulic motor in the hoist and add a spool valve to your control.
Looks like you fabricated the big cable sheave, from scrap, and got some lathe work as well.

The only time I will need to operate the hoist is when parked. A little bit of a pain to have to run the extension cord but I had the hoist already.
I have a 10,000 lb 12v Ramsey I could have used and may install it someday I also have a 13,000 lb Tulsa hydraulic and a spool valve that could be added to give me auxiliary hydraulic power either winch would be a better alternative to having to deal with a cord but both would have required a lot more fabrication and connection time and possibly money to mount and connect Also I didn't have cable for either one and both would have been over powered for what I need to accomplish at this time. Plus could lead to my trying to lift too much weight overpowering the balance of the backhoe or compromising the gin pole. This is not to say that either might not be modified to mount at a later date with a shortened gin pile though.
The roofing hoist is awfully fast so I might add a sheave and 2 line the thing to cut the speed down also giving me more lifting capacity or I might add an SCR controller to slow it down if need be