Swapping out rotary lifts

[zkdiesel]

Well I’m an idiot and swapping out a giant rotary two post for an even bigger rotary two post that’s in the colors that will match my two rotary spo12’s that will wind up next to it when shop move in is official

Luckily they are sister lifts that share same collumns, size and arms so it’s a matter of unbolting and rebolting them down

Downsides are the collumns are stupid heavy. I can move a spo12 by hand, these you can’t even adjust without swinging a sledge hammer full bore

Almost on the ceiling! Reusing my current anchors as I don’t wanna move location of lift or redo the 12” deep concrete there

So unbolted collumns and put on my thinnest forks I had and slid forks under and between anchors and listed column till it touched ceiling and wiggled it away from the hanging wiring

Repeated process to drop new collumns on existing studs was an act of god to get them to drop down but we managed. Everything else went right back the way it should be


Gotta match these two when they go next to it

 

[whateg01]

That's some balls to balance it like that. Most people I know who operate forklift would have dumped them before they were 1/2" off the ground

 

[PoorUB]

ZK, you should get a hobby, maybe alcoholism. It might be cheaper!

 

[Wrench97]

Shortage of Blue paint in chitown?

 

[zkdiesel]

That's some balls to balance it like that. Most people I know who operate forklift would have dumped them before they were 1/2" off the ground

Slinging them with how tight to ceiling was gonna be a no go, let alone trying to land it on the studs

Better option would have been welding steel on side of column and lifting up high on welded on parts

 

[zkdiesel]

Shortage of Blue paint in chitown?

Key reason is its rated for more capacity
That’s lifts $34,500 plus tax now

 

[matt_i]

Looks good! Columns are notoriously hard to handle with a forklift. What is the capacity of the new lift (?)

Are you going to sell the red one or save it for future(?)

 

[zkdiesel]

Looks good! Columns are notoriously hard to handle with a forklift. What is the capacity of the new lift (?)

Are you going to sell the red one or save it for future(?)

Could used telehandlers or crane, but what I did seemed like best option given situation
20k rated
Sold red one to a friend with a commercial shop for what I paid for blue one
He’s salty about somewhat for price tag as he knew I had less then 1/2 that in red one originally but he gets what I was trying to do here with an even swap of funds.
I have 4 other 10-12k lifts here for the future so that should be plenty to have this as the bigger truck lift You cant rack a 1/2 ton or cars hardly

 

[4xdog]

That's a seriously tight fit! I'm impressed wiith how you shoehorned the columns into place.

Here's a question for ya, @zkdiesel. I'm sure you've thought about this and can educate a guy...

The next door neighbor at my now-sold parents' home worked for one of the bigger Pierce fire apparatus sales and service organizations in the country. He gave me.a tour of some of the nifty old equipment they had in a (big) storage building. We also walked through the shop.

Given the range of equipment they work on, it made sense, I guess, that they didn't have any fixed lifts. They used big-*** portable units that they'd put at four positions around the rig to lift it. They might have had a long service pit, too, but maybe that's my imagination (it's been 10y or so since that Saturday).

How do portable lifts or service pits fit (or, I guess NOT fit) into the kind of work you get into?

 

[zkdiesel]

That's a seriously tight fit! I'm impressed wiith how you shoehorned the columns into place.

Here's a question for ya, @zkdiesel. I'm sure you've thought about this and can educate a guy...

The next door neighbor at my now-sold parents' home worked for one of the bigger Pierce fire apparatus sales and service organizations in the country. He gave me.a tour of some of the nifty old equipment they had in a (big) storage building. We also walked through the shop.

Given the range of equipment they work on, it made sense, I guess, that they didn't have any fixed lifts. They used big-*** portable units that they'd put at four positions around the rig to lift it. They might have had a long service pit, too, but maybe that's my imagination (it's been 10y or so since that Saturday).

How do portable lifts or service pits fit (or, I guess NOT fit) into the kind of work you get into?

Great for fire trucks and doing trans/pro work.
For what my aspect is the big two posts do me better Ya shop space it dedicated but I have room between the multiple buildings. No pits for me, they are great inspection areas, but service work *****. Up and down, wrong heights, nasty fire and ins hazard things.

 

[Overboost44]

Like these? I saw some of them on an auction site and thought it would be cool but way overkill

Mobile Column Lifts | Stertil-Koni USA

Mobile Column Lifts from Stertil-Koni deliver maximum flexibility, productivity and safety in heavy duty vehicle lifting. The idea hydraulic lift.

stertil-koni.com

 

[zkdiesel]

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Like these? I saw some of them on an auction site and thought it would be cool but way overkill

Mobile Column Lifts | Stertil-Koni USA

Mobile Column Lifts from Stertil-Koni deliver maximum flexibility, productivity and safety in heavy duty vehicle lifting. The idea hydraulic lift.

stertil-koni.com

Technology, and batteries and constant changing models makes buying a used set of these scary. A lot of tech in them that one day they say not repairable and just buy the new latest set