A quick detach boom.
Here is a shot of my old ‘76 Chevy 4x4 truck, loaded down with a small journal 327 (currently, it’s fresh from the machine shop, on the engine stand, just waiting for assembly) and a couple Model A frames. But what this post is about is the boom I used to lift the 327 onto the truck. It’s made out of 2 1/2″ schedule 80 pipe, and some other tube or pipe that just slips over it. While its kind of crude, it’s nice in that you can pull the angled piece out of its socket and pull the vertical piece up out of its socket, leaving the bed of the truck flat, with no obstructions.
I also made a socket for it on the back of my Suburban. I made the rear bumper out of a piece of 6″x8″x3/16″ rectangular tubing (to transfer the weight to the other side of the frame without twisting).
