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You guys may want to be careful about torquing down your bolts too often, and if you do, I wouldn't use a very high amount. You'll basically be pulling out the anchors if you're constantly torquing them to the max allowed value, since lift will apply an additional "pull" on them once...

Oh, I have one JUST like that on my left hand with the same age... I was bored up at my cabin as a young lad and saw a glass Pepsi bottle sitting upside down over a plastic chicken wire post... Somehow I thought it would be a great idea to try and drive the fence post deeper into the ground by...

So much win here! I'm cracking up at work reading these stories, cause I totally see myself doing this ****. Here is just one of my recent adventures: A couple years back I decided it would be a great idea to "trim" the miniature bamboo in my yard with an electric hedge clipper. You know, the...

^This was my initial concern too (although more for mechanical anchors), and I'm surprised that it wasn't discussed much further... I purchased a Triumph 2-post instead of a MaxJax, which also recommends tightening the bolts to 3 to 3-3/4 turns past snug (they copied the MaxJax manual, after...

What I meant was in comparison to the fore & aft moments. Of course there is an inward moment, but if you look at the amount of unsupported load cantilevered forward/rear of the CL of the post/column (where the engine sits BTW), as compared to the amount of supported load cantilevered inward...

Hi Folks, Newbie here, but I've been stalking the forum for awhile now researching a 2-post lift. Great site! I'll save all the details as to not clutter OP's thread, but even though I also have 8ft ceilings in my garage, I finally went with a Triumph C-7000 over the MaxJax, since I get more...