I needed to move the engine, so I thought that two of the tripods of the type I had set up numerous times for many different reasons would work in this case if I connected the vertices with another beam of the type I constructed to make the tripods and used two cable winches


here I am lifting the engine with the first tripod and cable winch





now I connect the second cable winch to the second tripod


now I connect the winch to the motor and take up the slack


I release cable on the first winch and the engine moves in the direction I want it to move


here the engine is half way between the tripods


I have taken down the first tripod and moved it to the opposite side of the second


here the engine is suspended midway between the tripods. The haze is the smoke from Wireman's pipe


the engine is now below the third placement of the tripod








the engine has been lowered from beneath the fourth placement of the tripod onto a dolly


here is the engine on the dolly in the "garage"


here the dolly is shown











Yesterday the engine was sitting on that pallet in the center of the photo




crime scene