Home made Jib/Crane

corpustle · Nov 2, 2010

Hello guys,

I'm looking in to making my own home made Jib which i can extend up to a 5m crane. So what i was wondering was whether any of you had any experience making them and if so could offer up some advice on areas of it that might be difficult/ materials to use etc.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Jonny

2001 Productions · Nov 2, 2010

Mine has a 14-foot rise, which falls under your 5m specification, but it's pretty close.

It was adapted from several different plans available on the Internet.

Main boom is a length of chain-link fence pipe. Rocker arm is angle aluminum. Pivot is a heavy-duty caster with the wheel removed. Camera mount is a heavy-duty mechanical tripod head. Counter-weights are barbell weights.

corpustle · Nov 3, 2010

That looks very interesting. I'm very interested in hearing any problems anyone encountered along the way and how/if they fixed them. Does it suffer from much shake or is it pretty solid?

Cheers mate. Great looking Jib!

chilipie · Nov 3, 2010

Jonny, have you seen the Home Built Stabilisers website before? Lots of great pictures of other people's DIY designs, might give you a few ideas.

2001 Productions · Nov 3, 2010

corpustle said:
Does it suffer from much shake or is it pretty solid?

Judge for yourself. Following the teaser, the first two scenes open with jib shots.

Okay, I give up. My friggin' video embeds never work. But here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_FM6dmdtM

Dreadylocks · Nov 3, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_FM6dmdtM

Only put the code that follows the "v=" part between the YT tags

2001 Productions · Nov 3, 2010

Thanks, Dready. How'd you do that?

Dreadylocks · Nov 3, 2010

Ancient Chinese secret.

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