4 Post Lift Deal

[Capngeo]

(mods/admin, I couldn't find a suitable forum for this so I put it here, please feel free to move)

I found a deal on a 4 post lift here (I am not affiliated with, nor receive compensation from this outfit) Best price I have ever seen on a 9k 4 post, dropped the card on it and will report back when it arrives

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[Bandit’s Lair]

That runs on a standard outlet?! Didn’t expect that. I figured most of them ran on 240V or a hydraulic setup.

 

[ChrisNLA]

Man I love some Chinese stuff but that I think I gotta draw the line somewhere.

 

[Capngeo]

That runs on a standard outlet?! Didn’t expect that. I figured most of them ran on 240V or a hydraulic setup.

Its probably slow as can be!

I was initially concerned about Chicom engineering dropping a 5000# Jeep on my head, and would never consider this lift If I were a professional shop lifting 30 cycles a day. If I am really hard at the jeep or mama's car it might see 30 cycles a month! With a 9000# rating, a Gladiator is well enough under I am not worried about gravity.

I have a buddy who has the EXACT same lift, and he paid $2600 for it. I went to his house and climbed all over the thing paying specific attention to the locking mechanism. I now have no fear of being under the load as long as I confirmed all the locks are engaged.

 

[Joosed]

It claims 50 seconds to full lift. That is slow in my book. Wish I had the overhead room for one.

 

[Gman 2025]

Don't know if I would trust that lift, doesn't look too stable.

 

[FC1]

I’m in. Ever since I moved to Florida I haven’t had any where to play.
I have a pole barn that would fit right in
Thanks

 

[Lunentucker]

Don't know if I would trust that lift, doesn't look too stable.

A lot of that is in the installation. People buy these things, drill some holes in their 4 inch concrete floors, sometimes 6 inches deep holes, toss some lead anchors in and call it a day.
No bueno.
If I were installing one in a floor for a residential garage I'd cut out the support footprint and repour at least 8 inches thick with high PSI concrete, not the builder grade stuff used when it was thrown together to look good until it sold. Anchor bolts with backing plates set deep.

 

[Capngeo]

Don't know if I would trust that lift, doesn't look too stable.

See post #4

 

[ChrisNLA]

A lot of that is in the installation. People buy these things, drill some holes in their 4 inch concrete floors, sometimes 6 inches deep holes, toss some lead anchors in and call it a day.
No bueno.
If I were installing one in a floor for a residential garage I'd cut out the support footprint and repour at least 8 inches thick with high PSI concrete, not the builder grade stuff used when it was thrown together to look good until it sold. Anchor bolts with backing plates set deep.

Wildfire Lifts (four post that doesn't even require it to be bolted down) only requires a 4" thick, 3500 PSI slab - which according to Google is fairly standard in home builds.

The lift weighs 2,000 pounds and has double the footprint of a typical pickup truck sitting on the ground on its own tires. So, park a stock Gladiator on it and its about 7,000 pounds - or lighter than a 3/4 ton truck sitting in the same spot, with less ground pressure.

Not sure if that relates to the OP's lift in any way. But I digress.

Now a two post - you'd want to do quite a big of excavating and new slab work to keep that from falling over and killing you.

 

[ChrisNLA]

See post #4

Long as the locks look good - send it

 

[Lunentucker]

Wildfire Lifts (four post that doesn't even require it to be bolted down) only requires a 4" thick, 3500 PSI slab - which according to Google is fairly standard in home builds.

The lift weighs 2,000 pounds and has double the footprint of a typical pickup truck sitting on the ground on its own tires. So, park a stock Gladiator on it and its about 7,000 pounds - or lighter than a 3/4 ton truck sitting in the same spot, with less ground pressure.

Not sure if that relates to the OP's lift in any way. But I digress.

Now a two post - you'd want to do quite a big of excavating and new slab work to keep that from falling over and killing you.

I know. But you only get one chance to get something like that wrong with under-building it.

 

[Burgy]

Back in the day I had the Autolifters 4 post 6k lift with 220 pump they were great for oil/exhaust work terrible for break jobs or tire rotation.
Stored my 79 TA on it and the TJ under in the winter. Would hold our Avalanche and Tahoe but had to fold the mirrors to get between the posts.

It had wheels so we used it to put the steel ceiling and all electrical stuff up prior to filling the shop with priceless objects

 

[Capngeo]

A lot of that is in the installation. People buy these things, drill some holes in their 4 inch concrete floors, sometimes 6 inches deep holes, toss some lead anchors in and call it a day.
No bueno.
If I were installing one in a floor for a residential garage I'd cut out the support footprint and repour at least 8 inches thick with high PSI concrete, not the builder grade stuff used when it was thrown together to look good until it sold. Anchor bolts with backing plates set deep.

Just a question there, you sound like an engineer and know about these things.

In my (feeble at times) mind, I was wondering about the concrete, then I looked at the casters and foot plate. If they designed this to be static and bolted to the floor, why the casters? And the foot plate has more square inches than my tires do, so if the vehicle doesn't crack the concrete why should the lift?

Then I looked up concrete psi and it (the devilish AI Bot) says "typical home construction is 4" of 3000 psi concrete". The foot plates are about 8x10" or 80sq inches each; at 9000# max load plus the 1200# lift gives a total floor load of 10200# divide that by 4 (four foot plates) you get 2550# per footplate divide that by the 80 sq inches and you get a load to 31.875psi or in other words about 1.0625% of the slab's load bearing failure point....

I mean I get the whole moment angle load of a two post lift forcing a higher concrete requirement, but kinda scratching my head why you say "No Bueno"... can you explain it to me?

 

[Capngeo]

Wildfire Lifts (four post that doesn't even require it to be bolted down) only requires a 4" thick, 3500 PSI slab - which according to Google is fairly standard in home builds.

The lift weighs 2,000 pounds and has double the footprint of a typical pickup truck sitting on the ground on its own tires. So, park a stock Gladiator on it and its about 7,000 pounds - or lighter than a 3/4 ton truck sitting in the same spot, with less ground pressure.

Not sure if that relates to the OP's lift in any way. But I digress.

Now a two post - you'd want to do quite a big of excavating and new slab work to keep that from falling over and killing you.

Well I guess we think alike!

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