Automotech AS-6140A Twin Hydraulic Ram, 2 Post Lift
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On a huge truck that wouldn't fit down my tiny country lane.
I met the truck up the road and we separated the pack, (it comes bolted together as one unit).
The truck driver and I then slid each leg on to a 10'x5' trailer and my lads lifted it off and into position.
The legs are VERY heavy but my lads are big and strong and took it on as some sort of macho challenge!
I met the truck up the road and we separated the pack, (it comes bolted together as one unit).
The truck driver and I then slid each leg on to a 10'x5' trailer and my lads lifted it off and into position.
The legs are VERY heavy but my lads are big and strong and took it on as some sort of macho challenge!
phazed said:
On a huge truck that wouldn't fit down my tiny country lane.
I met the truck up the road and we separated the pack, (it comes bolted together as one unit).
The truck driver and I then slid each leg on to a 10'x5' trailer and my lads lifted it off and into position.
The legs are VERY heavy but my lads are big and strong and took it on as some sort of macho challenge!
I forgot that this was, perhaps, the least clever bit - it must be like givng birth, you forget the painful bits. I met the truck up the road and we separated the pack, (it comes bolted together as one unit).
The truck driver and I then slid each leg on to a 10'x5' trailer and my lads lifted it off and into position.
The legs are VERY heavy but my lads are big and strong and took it on as some sort of macho challenge!
The truck turned up without a forklift. Luckily I had a telehandler on site and managed to lift the pallet off and then as others did we split the pallet and put the two posts up using the telehandler (and four hefty blokes, me and 3 builders)
Regarding lifting the car by the outriggers, my TVR indie has one full four-post ramp, essential for jobs that require the car to be supported on the wheels when up in the air, and one two post jobbie like the OP's, and he hoists cars up by the outrigger corners quite happily. It's also a very handy piece of kit for storing the body up out of the way when doing a body off restoration.....
Update o'clock, if anybody happens to look at this in the future whilst thinking about one...
I collected an AS235SB two-post lift from the very nice people at Automotech yesterday, since I'd got a rentaLuton for something else anyway. The only real differences between the 235 (not shown separately on their website - look at the PDF brochure, and it's in there) and the 6140 are half a ton less capacity, and equal-length arms with screw-thread adjustment rather than unequal with swappable fixed-length pads. And £200+vat...
The lift was loaded by Automotech with a forklift - having a tail lift on the van was actually a drawback there.
Unloading wasn't too hard - break the package down (there's a steel storage frame either end that needs to be unbolted, almost everything else is packed inside, with the electrics in a separate box) into all the components, then get them out individually. The tail lift was a help, but not essential... I don't see any reason you'd need a Luton - any van with a 3m long load bay would do just fine.
Breaking it down for unloading just needs a 24mm socket or adjustable, and some bits of wood to take the weight. A crowbar came in handy to take the weight and extract the bolts. Everything, including the arms, is one-man liftable - with the notable exception of the uprights. They are HEAVY. Two people can just about lift the base end of each, but if you can slide along something or have a beefy sack truck, it's much easier. One person can lift the top end, but you wouldn't want to carry it too far. Two people are realistically needed to move the uprights from horizontal to vertical or vice-versa. The floor bolts are included - you just need a big drill and 19mm bit for the holes.
Installing it looks straightforward, but you do need a certain tolerance to Chinglish for the manuals...
I collected an AS235SB two-post lift from the very nice people at Automotech yesterday, since I'd got a rentaLuton for something else anyway. The only real differences between the 235 (not shown separately on their website - look at the PDF brochure, and it's in there) and the 6140 are half a ton less capacity, and equal-length arms with screw-thread adjustment rather than unequal with swappable fixed-length pads. And £200+vat...
The lift was loaded by Automotech with a forklift - having a tail lift on the van was actually a drawback there.
Unloading wasn't too hard - break the package down (there's a steel storage frame either end that needs to be unbolted, almost everything else is packed inside, with the electrics in a separate box) into all the components, then get them out individually. The tail lift was a help, but not essential... I don't see any reason you'd need a Luton - any van with a 3m long load bay would do just fine.
Breaking it down for unloading just needs a 24mm socket or adjustable, and some bits of wood to take the weight. A crowbar came in handy to take the weight and extract the bolts. Everything, including the arms, is one-man liftable - with the notable exception of the uprights. They are HEAVY. Two people can just about lift the base end of each, but if you can slide along something or have a beefy sack truck, it's much easier. One person can lift the top end, but you wouldn't want to carry it too far. Two people are realistically needed to move the uprights from horizontal to vertical or vice-versa. The floor bolts are included - you just need a big drill and 19mm bit for the holes.
Installing it looks straightforward, but you do need a certain tolerance to Chinglish for the manuals...
Edited by TooMany2cvs on Thursday 26th March 13:35
Dan1heMan said:
Just purchased the same one as yourself, hopefully will be fitting it this weekend. Was a bit of a pig to get off the truck but managed it with a engine hoist.
That's not a garage, it's a sittingroom without the carpet 
The delivery truck couldn't get down my road so we had to slide the legs onto my trailer. The driver was really helpful as there was only him and me, what a weight! Mine was the 3500kg lift.
,all it was that the brass load nut had worn and stripped .£90and a few hrs later its been fitted in my workshop bargain. 
Would love a two post ramp in my life, having used one every working day for 20 years in my previous employment I know how useful they are, and possibly I may be be ridding myself of my current single concrete panel garage at the bottom of the garden, and replacing it with a larger version, just got to find out what actual size I'm allowed before I can think of filling it.
rigga said:
Would love a two post ramp in my life, having used one every working day for 20 years in my previous employment I know how useful they are, and possibly I may be be ridding myself of my current single concrete panel garage at the bottom of the garden, and replacing it with a larger version, just got to find out what actual size I'm allowed before I can think of filling it.
Good luck with that.I built mine on the same footprint of the old garage.
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