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Just posted a bunch of medium adjustable towbars for sale in the classifieds section. First twenty people to respond are gonna get them for $150ea. Finally affordable enough to be able to justify cutting them up to make an extended A-frame hoist.

Click the link in my last post. Was only lifting a few hundred pounds and didn't have a bed on it, so just threw some 7/8" bolts through the mounting feet and called it good. Planning on building a custom rear bumper that will stick out a little ways past the M109 box and will incorporate 1"...

Finally got around to making a set of extensions for my towbar and posted about it here. Ran a chain through the lunette-eye and that worked fine, but need to figure out how to make a point to hang a pulley from. Any ideas?

Thanks hoopsoft, read the whole thread about your setup. You know, one thing I didn't understand was the guy's comment about the way you have those cables attached, he said something about it doubling the load/force? But it looks like you have it set up pretty much how the TM says to connect the...

Sure thing gimp. I'll let you know if I decide not to keep them for something else.

I've got a medium adjustable towbar now, and also picked up two extra short-side towbar legs (inner and outer halves), thinking that I'll cut the ends off these and use them to extend the towbar to make a taller A-frame. Make sense? Still wondering about the best way to attach the towbars at...

I've already modified the lifting points on my M109 box (I used those points to build a roof-rack around the perimeter of the box). Take a look at the picture in the quoted text above. I think that tubing should do a pretty good job of tying all the lift-points together and equalizing the load...

Oh, I know those are lifting points. I just didn't understand what you were saying. And I was a little bit concerned about pulling forward (off-vertical) on those lift-points. Just don't want to stress the box.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Are you talking about the lift-point on my M109 box, or on a regular Deuce bed or...?

How tall/long are most of the A-frame setups overall? I'd like to build an A-frame that's about as tall as a Deuce can handle (lifting something that's approaching that 3000lb weight limit).

emr, would you mind posting some pics? I'm sure that works well enough, but I'm looking for a folding A-frame. I think making simple extensions to slip between the two halves might be the best way for me to go right now. I'll only have to carry two additional sections of tubing, and I could pin...

Uh, what about extending a towbar by simply inserting some appropriately sized tubes between the two halves of the towbar to lengthen it? It would be super easy to make, only requiring a couple of tubes and an extra set of pins. I'd need to rig-up some anchor-points, but that's no big deal.

So, making extensions for the towbar legs looks like a pretty straightforward project. But let's talk a bit more about the top of the A, where the two legs come together. I want to make the A-frame extension foldable. I'm thinking about something that might look a longer version of the towbar...

Finally found a nice towbar. Found this old thread while I was searching for info about chain hoists. I'm trying to figure out how to swap an LDS into Mah Deuce and I'm wishing there was some way I could use an A-frame to do it, but that sounds a bit like operating on yourself.

Good thread. It's got me thinking that I ought to build an A-frame by extending a towbar so that I'll have both with me, in case I need either. Would a 'medium' towbar be the best one to use?