Need a engine hoist/lift

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

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The clips for the pins that hold the legs down are chincy as hell though! I'm going to drill the hole bigger and use a better clip...

You really don't need to. The forces against the clip (and pin) are in-shear. You would have to be REALLY going out of your way and be trying REALLY hard to damage the clip in order to have it fail and not do it's job. Really, you're worrying about nothing

 

[Falcon67]

The clips for the pins that hold the legs down are chincy as hell though! I'm going to drill the hole bigger and use a better clip.

Replace with bailing wire - not a big deal. Not under load and they sure won't walk out of their holes.

 

[Shadowdog500]

You really don't need to. The forces against the clip (and pin) are in-shear. You would have to be REALLY going out of your way and be trying REALLY hard to damage the clip in order to have it fail and not do it's job. Really, you're worrying about nothing

I checked reviews on this thing all over the place before I bought it and one guy had the pin back out while he was moving it to the car and the leg folded up while he was pulling his engine.

I drilled the holes bigger and put linch pins on them. Not a big deal, it only took a few minutes an I don't have to worry about the pins backing out. And it looks a lot better. Actually that was the only bad part of this hoist.

 

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

Nice! I have to admit that does look better.

 

[volaredon]

I would like to find an old OTC foldup style cherry picker like we had when I was in school....

 

[justanengineer]

As usual you can call me a bit different. I prefer a larger, non-folding hoist for lifting large heavy objects out of the truck bed and working on/moving heavy machines. Mine's rated at 3 ton at 5 ft (full) extension, none of this lil 2 ton fully retracted non-sense. It also breaks down into two big flat sections simply by removing 3 bolts as most do, so not sure what the hype is over the "folding" ones as 3 bolts = <1 minute to install/uninstall.

 

[sberry]

I say the HF 2 ton fold up too. Thgey may be sold under other labels but that one is very well designed built, almost flawless and it was not the Chinamans first try with a mig.

 

[sberry]

There have been a couple failures in one of the prp boys model, the design wasnt right and the tube was a gage lighhter than the HF one. I will look for the link, they sell 2 different models in 2 t I believe. The red one I see in these pics is a slightly different model.

As for the 2T bending pulling posts all we can say is good and bad, good as someone learned, bad is that almost every set of rigging instructions in the world warn against pulling posts.

 

[sberry]

I would like to find an old OTC foldup style cherry picker like we had when I was in school....

The new HF one is likely as good and a lot cheaper. The OTC may be a heavier model, different class etc. I have a non folder but its one size heavier than these common ones. Around a small garage I wouldn't even be a little scared with an orange one, I got 2 buds I can think of with them. one paid 150 and couldn't be happier. I watched him handle a dressed v8 with it the other day.

I will have to get a current pic of mine since its been dressed up to hang a bunch of equipment on. I have to dress up to modifying the boom slightly, its not a good idea for everyone but we did it "aware" if there is a better word.

I use mine a lot, while folding would have been ok size mattered in my case.

It seems this is where they welded some attachments to this for level handling by crane and a couple of other features we needed for a job.

 

[Shadowdog500]

There have been a couple failures in one of the prp boys model, the design wasnt right and the tube was a gage lighhter than the HF one. I will look for the link, they sell 2 different models in 2 t I believe. The red one I see in these pics is a slightly different model.

As for the 2T bending pulling posts all we can say is good and bad, good as someone learned, bad is that almost every set of rigging instructions in the world warn against pulling posts.

Please do! Mine looks good but if it is a problem model it's going back.

Chris

 

[sberry]

Here is what I can tell you, there was a review by a couple engineer types here in a thread or 2 about it. I have looked at some differences and one being the tube weight which was heavier on that hf model. I am having a puter glitch and my faves are scattered. Link them from HF here in this thread. While both models may be great I can tell you for a fact the one is about as close to perfect as it can get and the price is a bonus.

I am a welder and wouldn't even consider building one, the thing was so good, fit, finish, paint. I remember when my bud Rick got it, he bought a 5 T long reach jack at the same time, we were real impressed you can get it that good at that cost. The cherry picker has sufficed but like most small places remains parked most of the time. (a good thing to remember here is generally you will rarely use this) The jack was used hard.


An engineer here reviewed the boom design, was plain as day they let the new kid with the slide rule loose. As I recall it was on a 1 ton model though?
He used the HF unit in comparison with draw over the flaws explanation and I can personally vouch for the tube weight differences in some and for its actual use.

 

[mx842]

1 slightly used and modified HF 2T lift for sale. Used very little and great conversation piece.

I had to do a few mods to my old HF 2T engine hoist when I was erecting my rolling hoist beam in my pole barn awhile back. I had to figure out a way to get 3, 13' foot long beams up on top of the 14' high uprights that would provide a resting place for the 30' long main beam to sit on.

The 3 beams weighed around 700 lbs ea. but I have no idea what that meant mathematically hanging at the end of the 17' long extension I had rigged up to the ol' 2T. After a couple near misses and several tries I finally had the three beams sitting on the uprights ready to sit the main beam.

That in itself is another long story better suited for another time. After surveying the situation It was decided that a little more extension would be needed and probably some beefing up of a few parts on the lift would be needed to get the 1800 lb beam lifted that high so another plan would be needed to accomplish that feat.

 

[dtt454]

before you make your decision what one to buy, you might be interested in this thread on the chevy trucks forum
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=194915

 

[Shadowdog500]

before you make your decision what one to buy, you might be interested in this thread on the chevy trucks forum
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=194915

Thanks!

I may load mine up with 1,000 lb. with the arm all the way foward to test mine.

That thread pointed out that the arm failed because of the placement of the ram mount, and that it should have been placed right under the uprite.

Mine appears to be in the proper position and as the load distributed a little wider.

At the end he pointed out that they gave him another that worked fine. So it may have been a defect in the material as well. He also pointed out that he was installing a 454 big block with the trans attached. If he had the boom all the way foward in the 1/2 ton position he overloaded boom by 50%!

Chris

 

[V-10 Killer]

One thing nobody mentioned is the boom length. I bought the Torin 2 ton that folds up from pep boys 5-6 years ago. Worked great, but the boom was a little to short to pull the motor out of my 69 Camaro from the front. I had to move the hoist to the side and remove/install the engine from over the fender.

I have the same problem with my 98 TA. It really needs about 6" more reach to not scratch the front of the car.