Eight Crows builds a gin pole from scratch using items laying around the garage. Gin poles are used to step the masts easily. Join Eight Crows Media as they ...

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so I need to confirm that the

calculations I've done in SolidWorks

which indicates that the gin poles got

to be the metal portion of the gin Pole

it's got to be about 134 inches long

so I'm just gonna confirm that

everything is okay because SolidWorks is

an estimate I didn't build it by

measuring this boat when I built the

model so ultimately from this

tabernacles location to the bow we're

gonna have to have a perpendicular that

goes up that way and we when we pull the

mast up the forestay is gonna have to

end up pretty close to where it has to

be so I can unhook it and then we and

then connect it up to the front so right

now I'm gonna go and gonna measure the

measure the length just to confirm that

the length of the metal that I have to

cut is gonna be good

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so I've come up with about 136 inches

which is in line with the design that I

made the gym pool so this piece of

aluminum that I'm going to be using to

build the gin pole out of is got some

damage in the front at about 185 inches

so I'm going to cut off a piece here and

then only going to cut the good-looking

pieces of aluminum and then that's what

I'm going to build a gin pole out of it

okay so right now I've got this set up

let's give her a cut

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yes best

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to the 5

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get there at home so to make a mounting

point this is a pretty thin piece of

aluminum and what I need to do is I need

to put a piece of wood sort of like this

in here so that when we are mounting our

gin pole hardware we have something to

screw into that's got some meat and

potatoes on it what we're gonna do is

we're gonna use a treat at two by two by

four and we have to sort of cut it as a

laminate because it is not thick enough

this came from China this is Chinese

wood gorgeous look at Chinese wood

smells almost like balsa but it's really

rock hard this was not cut with a

professional machine like this this was

hand whittled and that amazing I am

gonna try and replicate this using

conventional BC made two by six that's

been treated which is gonna be good so

let's go cut

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this little piece of fun it's gonna fit

right here and then when you look at it

from this point of view we have to make

another spacer down underneath here that

gets jammed in essentially now our

laminate looks like this we flipped it

over so that the grain is in offset

directions now it's got more strength

and it fits like a glove

there it is so now what we do we need to

cut these oh my god that's okay

you may think that there was something

wrong but there wasn't okay so

everything is good so now we're gonna

take this and right if you throw it on

the crosscut saw the electric miter saw

and then we're gonna cut this into four

two-foot pieces and that's gonna be what

we're gonna use our meat to both our

other pieces on but before we do that

I'm thinking that we cut up the bottom

part of the gin Pole

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this piece of wood is gonna have our

hole routed through it and our one inch

piece of brass is gonna fit in here so

it's going to be pushing on this why I

cut this to that short thing is gonna

sit like this and that's basically going

to be our gin pole now once we have this

done on this side we're going to put

these there's going to be four more of

these on this side stuffed in the holes

and then these are gonna be right here

next step is we're gonna laminate this

good old-fashioned exterior wood glue

marine-grade of course

and we're going to knock this in to this

end and we'll let it dry up inside it's

not a beat you can dance to it

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we're gonna put an eyebolt here and the

furler is gonna be attached to this end

the pulley system is going to be

attached to the other ending through an

eyebolt

I think that's fantastic okay so now

we're gonna do the same to the other end

I'm not gonna bore you with that I'm

gonna move on to after I'm done that the

next thing we're gonna be doing is for

this for the other end these get

attached like this so to speak we're

gonna router some slots into this and

everything's just going to be hunky-dory

can't wait to see it together

you know I'm looking at these plans I'm

having a hard time with my gin pole

clans not what I'm usually used to in

the old Salt Works but looks like I got

a graph here that says it'll people 200

pounds and then as the angle increases

it drops down to about 39 pounds

Kathy correct you've seen as the mass

ways oh no that's not 39 it's 90 okay so

that's all good for anyway so I went

into mice my sailboat

you know don't throw away my land I

found a set of these u-bolt things so

I'm gonna put one on top one on the

bottom I scrapped the idea of using the

the big block of plywood not necessary

he's gonna be quarter inch bolts us

through holes through through the whole

thing and hey I need over just like so

all it's got to do is hold about 290

pounds haha we'll see I've marked a note

there's the where am i drilling has got

to happen and we will drill through this

and I will put some bolts through that

and we'll call it done okay so let's go

and get her to drill

you know the roadies forgot to do the

power

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perfect

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well thanks a lot for hanging around and

watching me build a gin pole the

adventure was an adventure for me

there's another thing to be built and

that's to the push up pull so maybe

tomorrow we'll take care of that so

don't forget to Like comment I'd love to

hear from you and subscribe so anyway

for tonight

III goodbye