That is brilliant! Did you fab up that extended vertical bar and ram mount? Did you have to extend the feet (legs) to keep it stable?

Yes, the 'spine' or veritical is 3x3 .25 inch wall square tubing. I can't remember exactly but I think its about 8'6" tall. The 'boom' or horizontal beam is 2x4 .25 inch wall rectangle tubing. The round tubing is 1.25 diamater .120 wall DOM steel. I put the round tube on to help with the stress load on the square/rectangle tubing and to make sure it wouldn't buckle. The bottom of the ram is about eye level for me so about 5'6" off the floor. Everything that isn't blue I fabricated myself.

I was actually surprised how well it works but the entire time I have an engine hanging it makes me pretty nervous. I plan on fabbing up some 'outriggers' to help with the stability when I have a motor 7 feet in the air but so far it has proved pretty stable. When we yank them out we don't screw around, we get them up out and back on the ground as fast and smooth as possble and move very slowly to keep the engine from swinging. Only issue so far is I usually try to chain the motor pretty short to the boom, so when it comes time to put it on the ground the motor tends to come in too close to the lift. I don't lift motors from the chaing location in the pic, that was from pulling the tank out. I drilled holes every 12 inches from the end to be able to adjust lifting location.

I plan on getting another picker to lift the motor from the floor to about 4 feet high, then use the big one to put it in the boats. Plus I'd like the smaller one to help with drive R&R as well, the big one is too tall to get under swim platforms.

thanks for the replys guys
I got the motor out today,
I had a friend of mine come by with a tow truck, and we used the lift on the back
worked out perfect
thanks for all the suggestions