Hey everyone I am going rounds on a used hoist that will be for sale soon if it would be a good buy or not to put up in my 30x40 that is being built real soon.
I work for a local municipality and we currently have a 9000lb system 1 that is going to be replaced real soon for a new 16k lift and I asked the Mohawk dealer what he would want for the used lift he gave me the price of $2k for the used lift which would be no big deal but this hoist does have some issues
It was bought in 92 and installed in the old shop in 95 they moved the hoist into the current shop in 2008 they installed 1 new cylinder because it was leaking and 1 new swing arm being that it was bent.
currently I brought it to the attn of the boss that it did not want to lift our 3/4 ton trucks because it wanted to bypass (would lift a foot off the ground then go into bypass)
We called the local sales rep out and he adjusted the set screw on the pump and it has seemed to lift trucks up now but it still has bent hoist arms
when the hoist is set there is every bit of 8" droop/sag from the carriage to the end of the arm. so I would be looking at replacing 4 arms at roughly 250-300 ea plus pins and was said chains have some stretch (minor)
So what are everyones thoughts is a used Mohawk work $2000 plus the possibility of replacing 4 of the lift arms? or is one better to buy a $10k from greg smith or bendpak ? I just dont want to let a good deal go by the wayside. Thanks. Low50s
I work for a local municipality and we currently have a 9000lb system 1 that is going to be replaced real soon for a new 16k lift and I asked the Mohawk dealer what he would want for the used lift he gave me the price of $2k for the used lift which would be no big deal but this hoist does have some issues
It was bought in 92 and installed in the old shop in 95 they moved the hoist into the current shop in 2008 they installed 1 new cylinder because it was leaking and 1 new swing arm being that it was bent.
currently I brought it to the attn of the boss that it did not want to lift our 3/4 ton trucks because it wanted to bypass (would lift a foot off the ground then go into bypass)
We called the local sales rep out and he adjusted the set screw on the pump and it has seemed to lift trucks up now but it still has bent hoist arms
when the hoist is set there is every bit of 8" droop/sag from the carriage to the end of the arm. so I would be looking at replacing 4 arms at roughly 250-300 ea plus pins and was said chains have some stretch (minor)
So what are everyones thoughts is a used Mohawk work $2000 plus the possibility of replacing 4 of the lift arms? or is one better to buy a $10k from greg smith or bendpak ? I just dont want to let a good deal go by the wayside. Thanks. Low50s
