I've been looking for a used 4 post lift and can't seem to come up with much. I wan't to have one up and running by the first of June. If I don't find a used one in the next week I'm going to get something like Forward brand 14,000 lb. closed front for about $4400 delivered. That's with no jacks, jacks will cost almost as much as the lift.
Any of you guys have experience with Forward lifts? The company is owned by Rotary. I've worn out more than one Rotary and I think they hold up pretty well. These things look to be the same basic lift.
I've also worked on a lift called Stignhoj or what ever that shitty brand Rover had dealers buy. They called those fucking things widow makers. When you raised it and lowered it the safety was way out of the mix and during that time, the thing would kill you. I had some kind of shit let go in the left frt corner of one when I was standing at that corner. I also worked on the in ground truck racks with controls on the floor. It had 2 big cylinders that rose out of the floor independent of one another. I've seen a big Oldsmobile hanging from the rear axle because a cylinder leaked down or some shithead left the lever on the control. People who knew those lifts would always take the lever out of the floor after they got the truck at the right height. After years of putting trucks on those racks my asshole would still pucker up kneeling in front of a dump truck while you lifted it and tried to keep the two cylinders at about the same height.
Any of you guys have experience with Forward lifts? The company is owned by Rotary. I've worn out more than one Rotary and I think they hold up pretty well. These things look to be the same basic lift.
I've also worked on a lift called Stignhoj or what ever that shitty brand Rover had dealers buy. They called those fucking things widow makers. When you raised it and lowered it the safety was way out of the mix and during that time, the thing would kill you. I had some kind of shit let go in the left frt corner of one when I was standing at that corner. I also worked on the in ground truck racks with controls on the floor. It had 2 big cylinders that rose out of the floor independent of one another. I've seen a big Oldsmobile hanging from the rear axle because a cylinder leaked down or some shithead left the lever on the control. People who knew those lifts would always take the lever out of the floor after they got the truck at the right height. After years of putting trucks on those racks my asshole would still pucker up kneeling in front of a dump truck while you lifted it and tried to keep the two cylinders at about the same height.