Vehicle Hoist - product review

[listerdiesel]

We are over on the USA side for three weeks, of which one week has passed quickly already.

We are house-sitting for our good friend Tim while he is overseas visiting family.

He bought a new Atlas 10000lb wheel-free hoist which we finished off this last week and got working.

It is well made, Chinese origin, parts fit well and I had no trouble with the final assembly and erection, followed by commissioning and load testing.

The hoist is not well documented, there is a change to the hydraulics piping that meant we couldn't make sense of the piping until we found a pdf file with the new details on the importer's site.

We loaded it up with Tim's Studebaker Commander, raised to half height and checked all round for leaks, then left it loaded overnight to see if there was any slippage of the hydraulics, there was none.

The safety interlocks and the wire cable connecting them weren't really explained well, but we sorted that out from the pictures we had and were able to check that the engaged and disengaged as required.

It went 'live' over the weekend when I took the gearbox out of the Studebaker.

Pictures as attachments below, I can't get my ftp working to host them on our own site.

Peter

 

[listerdiesel]

Few more pictures.

Peter

 

[p m]

There are cheaper alternatives: http://jalopnik.com/5959822/i-love-you-harbor-freight-but-you-smell-like-plastic-hell

"Here's a perfect example: Harbor Freight sells a portable scissor lift that can hoist a 6,000-pound car — all four wheels off the ground. It costs $1,200, which is a lot for a tool, but not a lot for a lift. Think of the convenience: You set up the lift in the morning, drop your car's subframe by noon, and be released from the hospital six weeks later, minus a foot."

 

[ptschram]

Whatever you do, avoid Greg Smith Equipment.

Horrible customer service and most of his tools are junk. I love my four post but I will never buy ANYTHING from hi again given the treatment I received when the transmission jack I bought from him was dead out of the box.

When the defective unit was taken to him for replacement, he reneged and rather than replace, provided a baggie of O-rings. I needed a trans jack, not a project!