2 post lift take down/removal and Moving

[porkyzilla]

so long story short my bendpack 2 post A symmetrical XPR-10A has to come down from the shop. I am so poor its not even funny right now. No money for pros or equipment rental. Gonna have guys, Truck and Car trailer. with my engine crane. once the top piece is off, pump is off, cables and fluid hoses drained/secured. how can i safely take the pillars from vertical to horizontal and load them onto the trailer. I need Ideas or advice for cheapest route/redneck way please. when I erected it I used 4-5 Guys to walk the pillars up and move them into place.

 

[Ed Devinney]

I moved an older 2 post once. The posts are heavy, slippery, and aekward. You really need help getting the posts over safely. IMO an engine crane would be too short for this. We used a tractor with a loader, which could reach high and provided some measure of safety if the 4-500lb post got away.

 

[jackson1701]

I have the same lift and had to take one side down to replace the carriage. It's pretty easy and two folks with a little strength is all you need. Here is what I did.
1. Start by removing the top bar, electrical, cables,and drain the fluid.
2. remove the nuts that are holding the base down
3. Place a scrap piece of 2x6 8" long on each side of the base.
4. Start with one side and tilt the post to one side to get it above the anchor bolts and then slide the 2x6 under that side to secure it off the floor. A pry bar may be helpful, but not needed.
5. Move to the opposite side and tilt the post in the opposite direction to get the base above the anchor bolts and slide another piece of 2x6 to hold it in position.
6. hopefully by now the base is above the anchor bolts.
7. majority of the weight is at the bottom of the lift with the carriage.
8. Two people walk the pole down safely and sit it on the ground.
9. Mine did not want to slide out, but you could use a third person to hold the base if you think it may slide out.

Have a saw horse ready so you can sit the post on if you need a rest point to re-position yourself.

 

[Falcon67]

The opposite of this - put the carriage at the bottom to max the weight down there, wrap the column at about 6~6 1/2' up with strapping, latch on to the straps, lift, tip gently and lower. Note the rope is a secondary safety tie off in case the wrapping were to start slipping for some reason.

One man lift and set:

 

[porkyzilla]

I have the same lift and had to take one side down to replace the carriage. It's pretty easy and two folks with a little strength is all you need. Here is what I did.
1. Start by removing the top bar, electrical, cables,and drain the fluid.
2. remove the nuts that are holding the base down
3. Place a scrap piece of 2x6 8" long on each side of the base.
4. Start with one side and tilt the post to one side to get it above the anchor bolts and then slide the 2x6 under that side to secure it off the floor. A pry bar may be helpful, but not needed.
5. Move to the opposite side and tilt the post in the opposite direction to get the base above the anchor bolts and slide another piece of 2x6 to hold it in position.
6. hopefully by now the base is above the anchor bolts.
7. majority of the weight is at the bottom of the lift with the carriage.
8. Two people walk the pole down safely and sit it on the ground.
9. Mine did not want to slide out, but you could use a third person to hold the base if you think it may slide out.

Have a saw horse ready so you can sit the post on if you need a rest point to re-position yourself.

I am gonna take it down completely. My plan was to take the nuts off studs cut most of the head off...than hammer down the rest past the pilars. guess im not following you as far as walking them down to keep from sliding.

 

[jackson1701]

guess im not following you as far as walking them down to keep from sliding.

here's a video of an install, around three minutes in they walk the lift post up. You would do it in reverse, walking it down. Make sure the bottom does not slide out when you get to a point when walking it down causing it to fall.

 

[motofool33]

use the steel framed furniture dolleys from HF thats how i moved mine around took 7 guys to lift it into my truck USA made Older Lift

 

[ABADWILLYS]

I took one down , loaded it on my trailer, moved it and reinstalled it in my shop, with just myself and my 75 yr old father, exzactly like Falcon67 shows how to do it !
no big deal

 

[cre73]

Do I see a large beam directly above lift?

 

[Capt Crash]

I bought a 2 post lift at an auction and here is how I did it.
I removed the hydraulic tank and drained the oil into a 5 gal bucket with lid.
I disconnected the electrical.
I couldn't raise the lift over the anchors because it was up against the roof, so I raised it up 1/2" to 3/4" and used an angle grinder to cut the anchors. You could also try to hammer them down through the concrete.
I disconnected the top cross bar, and then moved both columns towards the middle of the floor. I tied the columns together with lots of tie down straps after tucking the cables and hoses inside of the columns so that they wouldn't be crushed.
I backed the trailer up against the columns and ran a strap between the columns and the trailer to keep the columns from kicking out.
I had a friend use a ATV with a winch to lower the columns down onto the trailer as one unit. I then had about 6 guys help to "catch" the columns and slowly lower them onto the trailer.
Brian

 

[Daedalus]

I have installed mine, removed it, loaded and unloaded it with a trailer, and reinstalled it again on my own, with only a cherry picker and ratchet straps (and a ladder for the cross beam) . Yes these were 12' bend pak posts. You gotta know where the cg is.