engine hoist/cherry picker?

[Jscotty]

If you can coordinate in advance, the rental joints give you a break on Sunday rentals, so if you pickup on a Sat. & return on a Mon. morning, you get a slight surcharge over a standard 1 day rate.

Or even better, rent over a holiday weekend (like memorial day or 4th of july) and keep it for 3 days for a one-day rental. I rent from both United Rentals and Sunbelt which are nationwide companies and I was able to get that arrangement for New Year Day weekend. I picked it what I needed on Friday afternoon and they told me that as long as it was on the dock by 8AM Tuesday morning, it would be a one-day rental.

[LINUS]

(on HF hoists) yes, but expect to throw it away after using it 3 times.

HF stuff was def that way 5 years ago, but if you go into one of their stores, you see they've come a long way.

The fold-up picker is a good unit for the money - as long as you use common sense and don't hang a loaded Duramax Diesel powertrain on it, it will def last long enough to make you feel you got your money's worth - and I only make the Duramax comment because it's not as beefy as a professional unit - but those go for 5x the cash.

[MR 325]

yes, but expect to throw it away after using it 3 times.

Not true. Mine has been around 4-5 years and pulled/put in probably 30 motors, no joke. Still works great.

[blunttech]

Not true. Mine has been around 4-5 years and pulled/put in probably 30 motors, no joke. Still works great.

theres only a couple manufacturers and importers. theres some chinaman making these things and painting them different colors. i bought my first one from northern tool and the part that supports the beam was welded on 2 sides instead of 4. i never noticed it until it started to collapse while lifting a 4.0L V8 into my moms 540. i managed to save it and get it back on the ground without damage. northern tool gave me a new one.

[LINUS]

Not true. Mine has been around 4-5 years and pulled/put in probably 30 motors, no joke. Still works great.

Yup yup. Like I was saying before too - the fold-up one I got from HF was exactly the same as the NAPA one, same lift jack stickers, steel castors, etc. The only diff was mine's red instead of orange/yellow, and mine was ~$100 cheaper.

I still vote to go to their stores if you have one close, I looked at the engine stands when I got my lift, and the 2 they had side-by-side were quite a bit different in build quality. The one I liked was a bunch of money, and the one that was dirt cheap looked good for a 4 cylinder, maybe a small v8 - but I wasn't going to hang a inline 6 on it.

China & HF have come a long way in the last couple years for sure, I'm way more impressed with HF in the last couple years.

[2002maniac]

Not true.

Just my personal experience...

I'm glad you've had better luck than I.

[backtrail69]

I am going to agree that their hand tools are ALL garbage, but its kinda hard to fuck up an engine hoist too bad.

[2002maniac]

I am going to agree that their hand tools are ALL garbage, but its kinda hard to fuck up an engine hoist too bad.

what about hydraulics? Pretty easy if you ask me.

[blunttech]

what about hydraulics? Pretty easy if you ask me.

besides quality welds thats probably the most important part. has anyone ever experienced a ram going bad? ive seen them leak but what about a catastrophic failure with a full load on it? does that shit even happen? i remember dropping super duper bobby coopers s50 onto my garage floor when the lift went over. but it landed softly. scary for a moment though

[Rigmaster]

theres some chinaman making these things and painting them different colors.

Yeah, but the "chinaman" making these (and all the other crap they ship over here by the containerload) is likely a PhD or an MD or some other political prisoner working in one of the factories.

Gotta admit though, those political prisoners make some fine jack stands and other crap. Can you just imagine what those people working in the penis-enlargement pump factory think about the American lifestyle. I somehow thing they all have the impression that we pull engines, jack up cars and then spend our evenings wearing a different pair of shoes every hour while pumping up our man-meat in a chinese-made "Super Duper Enlargement pump with extra-virile accessorie kit".




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