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Fairport,NY

I'm in the process of securing a 1 ton chain hoist for weigh-off weekend(Praying I make this final month)
My Plan and this is the part I'm looking for other opinions is I am going to use my kids steel swingset to attach the chain hoist too than lift the pumpkin onto a trailer?
Do you think the swingset top support will hold about 500lbs.?
I find myself always improvising in this "new found hobby" of Pumkin growing!!!I Luv it!!!
Thanks again
Bumkin

9/1/2007 11:04:42 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

It will probably buckel right in the middle and the pumpkin will come crashing down. I'd never try it

9/1/2007 11:33:28 PM

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Agreed. If the hoist's load is focused in one place, the average steel tube backyard swing-set is likely to fold like an umbrella in a hurricane. Think 4x4's or 2x6's.

9/1/2007 11:36:55 PM

Louth , Ireland

they'd never forgive you

9/2/2007 4:13:15 AM

Western Pa.

Over 50 years ago, my Dad welded a swingset up of 2" galvanized pipe. It works fine for loading and unloading pumpkins up t0 800#, but I don't think I'd trust those flimsy swingsets they now sell in the stores!

9/2/2007 1:18:53 PM

Western Pa.

I've always used a 2 buck steel scaffold with a 4x4 lifting beam, you can remove a side brace and back right under the pumpkin!

9/2/2007 1:21:14 PM

Minnesota

No, There designed to hold a 10-70pd kid, do you think they could hold a 800-1000 pd pumpkin.

9/2/2007 8:36:51 PM

Minnesota

If your 2year or 5,6,or 7 year old were 800-1000pds would you trust he or her on a swing set, I sure would'nt.

9/2/2007 8:38:30 PM

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I don't believe that mass produced swing sets of today are built the way Killr's grand-dad made them. LOL

9/3/2007 12:55:32 AM