e-tek
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Not sure what that means. . . I'll give you a chance to fix it.
If manufacturer says 4", 3000psi, why go bigger? How many lifts have cracked or ripped out of properly spec'd concrete?
I still stand by the fact that 8000lb on a 7000lb hoist is not advisable.
Not sure what you're getting at e-tek.
"Agin (against) the Government" was a term coined to describe those that are always anti-whoever is in power and hence is used to describe someone who always says the opposite of whatever else was just said....
As for 8000lbs on a 7000lb lift - while I agree with you that it is not "advisable" to go above the "rated" limit, I will submit this as food for thought:
ALL ASI certified lifts (and likely all others too) are tested to TWICE the rated limit. Meaning this has been manufactured to hold at 14K pounds, so 8K would not even be close to taxing it. Imagine how few people (shops included) know the weight rating of their lifts and how many times overweight vehicles are put on lifts. This is partly why lifts are rated at the 7K minimum: so that just about any vehicle can be put on any lift without undo danger. it would take a MASSIVELY overweight vehicle to make a lift fail, especially if it is balanced.
Again, just food for thought - I wouldn't advise over-wieghting a lift, but then I also wouldn't be worried whether a truck was a 2WD or 4WD on a 7K lift!
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