Totally agree with you ConCretin. My brother is an aeronautical engineer and this is his project going into one of his airplane hangers. The plates are to add stability and help distribute the load forwards and back in the event loading gets off a little. If this were my project, I would cut out...
we bought a used older rotary. The guy had it mounted in some pretty low psi concrete that was probably 4" thick or less. When i disassembled it, most of the anchors either spun or pulled right out. The concrete we are putting this on is pretty high grade and is verified at 4.5". We will go...
We are wanting to install a 6k 2 post lift in one of our shops for personal use. We really dont want to cut and repour and are considering bolting 3/8" plates down then bolting the lift to those. Each pad will be 21" larger front to back than the post pad and 3" wider one the sides. Basically...