Moving Scissors Lift

[Bruce 993 SEA]

So I have had my scissors lift for about 6 or 7 years and have used it a lot. All kinds of vehicles have been lifted and worked on from my Porsche 993 that I sold to a Isuzu Trooper to a Mini, Audi A6 and a 2012 Tahoe. Lots of BMWs and Mercedes too.

Love the lift and it is totally out of the way when a car is parked over it which is 99% of the time.

So we are moving 90 miles North and need to move this thing. It was delivered by a lift truck and a pallet jack. It is moveable as in the pump and reservoir are on a wheeled truck.

It is about 1200 to 1400 lbs and is a little hard to lift...I can roll it but lifting is hard.

Just throwing it out there for ideas....I do not want to be "horsing' this lift at the last moment...!

Cheers!

 

[Moosefire66]

90 miles might get expensive, but a tow truck could make easy work. On, off, no lifting required at all

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[ducatithunder]

Why not just rent a truck with a lift gate. I rented one not long ago to move some large toolboxes. Didnt cost very much. Sounds like your moving anyways so youll need a truck. If you can jack it up or a strap and an engine hoist to lift it you should be able to get it on some car dollies to push it around. I just put up a 4 post bendpak with a hoist and a bunch of dollies ... it was a breeze.

 

[matt_i]

I am not sure if they are rented separately, but there are "kneeling" or "drop deck" trailers which sink on command to put the deck surface on the pavement. Sometimes used to transport scissor man-lifts.

There is also the option of building a wooden A-frame gantry and rigging it up with a lever hoist or a chainfall hoist, backing a trailer or pickup truck underneath. Any half ton truck should be able to handle the 1200# pretty easily although you will know its back there.

 

[RWorth]

do you own a trailer? pickup truck? comealong?prybar? blocking?floor jack? hand truck?

work with us here, what do you own?

 

[txvwnut]

When I moved mine I used my engine hoist and just lifted them up on my trailer. I raised them up enough to get the legs of the hoist under then set the lift down on the hoist then rigged it up and lifted to get it on the trailer.

 

[rmsg0040]

Trailer, come-along or winch, furniture dollies

 

[ITGuy1998]

I have a Bendpak MD-6XP. A few years ago, we built a new house. I told the moving company what I had, gave them the weight, and they moved it no problem. I may have had to pay an extra 20 bucks or so for a heavy item charge - I can't remember. Money well spent either way. The movers were 4 college aged guys - didn't really phase them.

 

[Bruce 993 SEA]

Hey thanks for the ideas...I do have a pick up but the bed is kind of high for getting the lift into it.

I like the idea of the furniture dollies and once up on them I could winch it into a u-haul type trailer. They are cheap to rent and fairly low to the ground.

I have used the heady duty equipment trailers before but as I recall, they are fairly narrow. My buddy and I moved his mill. We did the Egyptian method and rolled it on 1 in pipes and then winched it into the trailer. While it was on the tongue of the trailer, it lifted the rear wheels of the Jeep Cherokee off the ground. Turns out the mill was closer to 4000 lbs and the trailer was good for 2000....Good thing it was a short drive....

Anyhow, I should be able to get it up high enough to get the dollies under it and maybe strap or clamp then to the lift and winch it onto the trailer. The u-hauls have a bunch of steel ribs on the tailgate...kind of a corrugated type of shape to maybe I could put some 2 x 12s down or plywood to smooth out the transition.

Once in the trailer, a lot of other stuff could be loaded on top of it as it sets only 4 or so inches high when all the way down.

Thanks again for ideas...

Cheers

 

[cspcrx]

When I got mine I used a engine hoist, HF furniture dollies, slate bars, jack stands and straps to lift mine and put it in place.

If you raise the lift then put the stands on the sides of the lift with a slate bar under the deck it actually lifts itself off the ground so you can get slider under it. Hope that makes some sense.

 

[My Old Tools]

16 foot trailer and an engine hoist. No problem. Pick it up and back the trailer under it.