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06-08-2020, 06:18 PM #1
School me on Chairlift Porch Swings
I made one of my better pick-ups this past winter when Stevens decided to give away a bunch of their triple chairs after upgrading one of the green lifts. It's sat about for the past six months and now it's time to mount this bad boy. It weighs about 150 lbs, 8 ft tall x 4 ft wide. The plan is to cut out a portion of the neck so it will sit at the desired height, then weld it back together. I want to incorporate the stock attachment mechanism (second picture below) but don't have a good understanding of what parts are involved or where to get them. I tried explaining to the hardware guy at Home Depot who looked at me like I was nutso. I went so far as to poke around the website of a lift manufacturer for parts, to no avail.
Former lift-ops folks and badasses who've pulled this off: what parts am I looking for and where do I find them?
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06-08-2020, 06:21 PM #2
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06-08-2020, 06:52 PM #3Registered User
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I just stuck a pipe thru the grip and hung it underneath a high deck.
Wasn’t optimal, but it worked.
I sold the place and didn’t take it.
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06-08-2020, 06:58 PM #4
That hanger rod looks a bit off center without the cable grip. How you gonna level it?
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06-08-2020, 07:25 PM #5
As stated you probably will need a pipe to go into the collar and get the pivot point toward the center. Or Google Search for chair lift porch swings and see some of the various mountings done with the different brands and types of chairs.
Do you want it to swing like a lift would on the cable mount or fixed position acceptable?
Like this if you have a solid ceiling on the porch:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ee/b3/2c/e...87d2a22fed.jpg
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06-08-2020, 08:06 PM #6
So I've been looking around and it looks like the fixed grip interface between the "eye" and the cable is what provided that offset. Like it's a whole assembly, and it looks legit but I don't know what it's even called...
And fixed position would be totally acceptable so long as it's level
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06-08-2020, 08:13 PM #7
Fave I've seen uses a big ball joint from a work truck. The z-axis swiveling is cool IMO.
Or you could use a big bolt/pipe thru the grip boss, with a clevis above. 2 degrees of freedom for that side swing eh.
I'm about to finally build mine and plan to do the ball joint. I'll report back.
If you cut it shorter, cutting the jog out makes the alignment easier but worsens the look, IMO.Last edited by Norseman; 06-08-2020 at 08:35 PM.
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06-08-2020, 09:11 PM #8
School me on Chairlift Porch Swings
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06-08-2020, 09:19 PM #9
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06-08-2020, 09:25 PM #10
Mine has been on truck springs for ten years, waiting for the right setup to hang. It's nice enough on the ground but hanging ones are better.
Built a patio last summer/fall so now it's time to hang the chair. Currently welding a steel cantilever beam to bolt to a concrete pile, off the corner of the patio.
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06-08-2020, 11:13 PM #11
Use old skis for the "feet'.
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06-09-2020, 01:43 AM #12Registered User
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I got a old single chair that I took when they replaced it with a six pack. Midnight mission to Austria in a government vehicle. It’s been sitting in a garden for years now. I wanna paint it a nice silver and redo the wood seat slats in a nice light oak. If I ever get around to it I will post before and after pics
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06-09-2020, 06:48 AM #13
The chairlift porch swing looks best if you leave some of the siding off the house and just go with Tyvek.
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my dad built a standalone A-frame to hang a buddies double swing (the old garabaldi chairlift ) I remember thinking it was huge and it took up a lot of deck space, but it worked well cuz dad built bridges
edit: and over engineered everything he built
If you have an existing structure to hang a chair off of that might be cheaper/better or forget hanging it and put some legs under itLast edited by XXX-er; 06-09-2020 at 11:45 AM.
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06-09-2020, 10:21 AM #16
here's how i hung my chairlift. you have a big hunk of metal to deal with but could put these at the very end of yours with some cutting.
theres some pics and links to hardware in posts surrounding this one
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...11#post5912211
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06-09-2020, 11:29 AM #17
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06-09-2020, 11:34 AM #18
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06-09-2020, 01:56 PM #19
Interested in this thread, I have a chair that's been on a homemade frame, totally ghetto, and I'd love to do something nicer when I have the coin.
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06-09-2020, 03:00 PM #20Banned
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It would be cooler if you still had/utilized the original grip. Just sayin.
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06-09-2020, 03:03 PM #21
Need to hang mine a well. Subscribed.
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06-09-2020, 03:10 PM #22
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06-09-2020, 04:00 PM #23
So from some quick interweb research it would seem that you'd use a press to seat the ball joint in the old grip mount, put the threaded end through some kind of half of a clevis with a nut/washer afixed to the threaded end of the ball joint, then hang the clevis from some combination of metal stock (speed rail, super strut?) Affixed to the rafters in multiple locations (Say, 3 rafters, 2 mount points each?)
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06-09-2020, 04:16 PM #24
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06-09-2020, 04:24 PM #25
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