"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I've been working on the Halman trailer for the past couple of days
and while doing so, have been working out how I can single hand the
mast and what materials I would use to build the gin pole and A-frame.

I went to a local metal shop this morning and checked different types
of steel, but to make what I want would be too heavy for me to handle
by myself.

So, I came home and spent some time in the wood shop working with
different lengths of PT fir and such along with some left over PVC
tubing from a drainage project - not enough strength.

As I walked around the back of the barn, I found my solution - a 24'
length aluminum sailboat mast from a project that was abandoned years
ago. I got it form a local place that some of you may have heard of
over the years - Metal Mast Marine. I bought it as scrap and when the
project went south, I just put the mast in back of the barn and forgot
about it.

Thus, solution found - it's just engineering from here.

Sounds like you might have the parts for a complete boat behind that garage,
if you just clear the weeds.