Getting a scissor lift delivered.

[WanderingSol]

Hi,

I would like to get a scissor lift for my garage. It appears they are around 800# to 1000#. Checking many sellers, they say best to be shipped to a local freight terminal where I can pick it up. They say lift gates will not handle this load.

Okay, I can find someone with a pickup or rent one for the day. How would one get such a load out of a pickup and on to the ground? Even if I get a bunch of 12" x 2" s for a ramp how do I handle this?

Okay, I can get four furniture dollies, the 16" x 24" four wheel kind, and I can lever this thing up and slip the dollies under. Then what?

Sounds like I need a flat bed truck with a crane/forklift like what delivers drywall.

How would you get one of these out of a pickup and into your garage?

Thanks,

Tim.

 

[Cemoto]

Ha! I just did this last week.

I borrowed a truck (from my mechanic) that has a plastic bedliner to pick it up with. My thought was to hire a ramp truck w/ a winch to pull it on the ramp then back into the garage and lower it.

My mechanic said to save my money.

He told me the plastic was slippery enough and two guys could pull it back and slowly lower it to the ground. As soon as the one end was on the ground put a few old tires under it - then floor it! :-0

I was surprised, but it worked great. Was worried the tailgate would mess up but it didn't.

Backwoods, hillbilly lift delivery!

 

[dowmace]

The Tommy lift on one of our work trucks has handled 1400lb generators no problem I don't see how a lift would be a problem for a good tail gate lift

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[Jack Olsen]

I did it by myself. I rented a truck from Home Depot for $19. Then I used some 2x4 steel lengths -- anything that could bear the weight will do -- and used a $15 HF come-along to slowly pull it down the ramp. I used another rope to control the descent. (You can't see the rope in this picture, but it looped around the headache rack behind the cab of the truck.)

After that, I moved it around on furniture dollies.

My advice is to take it very slowly., and make sure you're never underneath the thing, in case something goes wrong.

 

[flat350]

Get it picked up with a flatbed tow truck,closest thing to what the rental places use to deliver them to jobsites.

 

[rburke65]

You could use an engine hoist/lift.

 

[turbodave]

I moved mine with a 5x8 utility trailer that has a tilt deck. Used a come a-long to winch it up in and my lawn tractor to pull it out.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Get it picked up with a flatbed tow truck,closest thing to what the rental places use to deliver them to jobsites.

This, if you are going to need to rent a truck anyhow, just talk to a towing company, You will need to meet them at the trucking company loading dock, or they may let you ride along. They can slide it down the bed right into your garage. If you catch them at a slow time, you might get a deal, but it still won't be a lot more than if you rented and went thru the hassles.

Charles

 

[OccupantRJ]

Rent a drop bed trailer. They will lower right to ground level hydraulically. Vending machine companies sometimes use them.

 

[TheClaw]

I bought mine from Greg Smith and they delivered it to my driveway and he helped me put it in the garage. The price was just as competitive as any of the other units out there. Shipped from Indy to Chicago 'burbs.

Jeff

 

[NHBandit]

Not a scissor lift but when I had my 2 post lift delivered there was no way the tractor trailer was going to get anywhere near my garage so I had a friend with a rollback car carrier winch it out of the back of the trailer onto the deck of his truck & then deposit it in my garage. I realize not everyone has a friend like that but it shouldn't cost much to hire someone for a half hour. If you have triple A maybe you could convince them your lift ran out of gas & needs to be towed...

 

[zkdiesel]

Have it delivered and have a rollback or winch truck meet you at your house to unload

 

[ZRX1040]

Best Auto Equipment delivered my table lift with a lift gate semi. Free shipping.

 

[Ign]

Clearly you need to buy the HF gantry crane

 

[Stevedore]

When I bought my Bendpak LR-60P I had a local tow guy with a flatbed pick it up at the trucking terminal. The terminal used a forklift to put it on the flatbed, then the tow guy just slid it down somewhat gently onto my driveway. He probably could have dropped it in my garage, which would have saved me having to drag it in there, but he was sort of a doofus & I didn't trust him to back any closer to my house after watching his trial & error method of backing into my driveway. Tow guy cost me $100.

 

[oldestof11]

If a Penske truck lift gate can handle a grand piano, it should handle a scissor lift.

 

[TheWhiteMamba]

Hey Tim,

What did you finally end up going with? I am currently in the same boat. I think $60 to drop the lift 48" is outrageous especially if it takes 10 seconds to do it.

I also have a home made but rugged A-frame/gantry crane with a 2 ton hoist on casters and have really been hoping I can use that to lower my future lift to the ground but haven't made any dry runs yet...

 

[some zilch]

id love to know what ****** lift gates cant handle 800-1k lbs.......

 

[jpearson]

Yeah - I have the high lift harbor freight scissor lift that they delivered to my house, the lift gate handled it just fine but there was an extra charge for it. I just used pvc pipes to roll it off the pallet onto furniture dollies to move it.

 

[EyeTech]

Hello All. My bendpak lr-60p delivery and they help me to put it in to my garage. You could contact Antonio at bendpak his email [email protected]
will help you arrangement to delivery to your home by lift gate excellent services and patient.

 

[metalhead140]

You could use an engine hoist/lift.

That's what I did, to get it out of the back of my F250. Then I used a jib on the tractor to put the ramps in the hole, but that probably could have been done with an engine crane too if I'd formed my concrete to closely fit the ramps as most people seem to.

 

[Phuckin' Jim]

I just brought one home on my half-ton. Used my quad to pull it down the tri-fold loading ramp. Worked well and fairly easy.