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Chat => Sports, Hobbies & Motors => Topic started by: Mark on May 22, 2006, 15:41:40 PM

Title: New Lift
Post by: Mark on May 22, 2006, 15:41:40 PM
With all this talk of tools and engine stands I thought I better post a (poor phone camera pic) of the latest money pit - A new 4 ton lift for the old garage - finally can fill in that pit !!!

Ã,£1800 fitted.

(http://www.mark-chapman.com/lift.jpg)
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: mr_roll on May 22, 2006, 18:10:44 PM
Nice!

Its much better working under a lift instead of being on your back all day or bending down. :D
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: Mark on May 22, 2006, 18:16:15 PM
Being on your back absolutely KILLS your neck - I HATE it
Title: New Lift
Post by: knighty on May 22, 2006, 20:31:51 PM
******** !

I wish I had the hight for one here :(

Ã,£1800 ain;t too bad for fitted.... but you know they go for like Ã,£200 on ebay right ?  (dunno about over there tho!)
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: Serious on May 22, 2006, 21:18:57 PM
Quote from: BXGTi16VBeing on your back absolutely KILLS your neck - I HATE it

But if you have a nice woman bouncing on your flagpole it makes up for it ;)  ;)
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: snellgrove on May 22, 2006, 22:00:58 PM
lol now thats a proper bit of kit.

The coolest two-post one I have seen was in the VW dealership I worked in - it was TALL ...tall enough to fit the high roof LT vans :D it looked crazy!
Title: New Lift
Post by: knighty on May 22, 2006, 22:03:55 PM
^^ eh ?

suerly the hight only denotes how high you can lift something, not how high the thing thats been lifted can be ?
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: mr_roll on May 22, 2006, 22:48:38 PM
But itd need to be a 3.5Tonne lift? atleast? and then have space for the truck to be lifted into the ceiling too :)
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: Mark on May 23, 2006, 13:12:45 PM
Im raising the roof of that shed by approx 3 foot this weekend to accomodate vans and the like!
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: knighty on May 24, 2006, 01:31:58 AM
Quote from: BXGTi16VIm raising the roof of that shed by approx 3 foot this weekend to accomodate vans and the like!

lol, easier said than done !
Title: Re:New Lift
Post by: Mark on May 24, 2006, 08:03:56 AM
Too right. Spent this week taking off the roof - it was an old building so tiled - thats going in favour of kingspan roofing, then its get a builder to do the brickwork - not going to try that myself - but ill make the doors and put the kingspan on.
Title: New Lift
Post by: knighty on May 24, 2006, 09:33:58 AM
^^^ tut tut tut

all you need to do is brake from the lift to the roof, seperate the roof from the building, then lift it up with the lift !
get the bricky to build the walls up, and lower the roof back on :-p