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Auto trailer hoist combo idea Nuts
When I got my trailer I asked here for comments about removing boards in the center, driving a car on (outside), and using a creeper. Forgot the reasons given against it, but just as well -- not as easy to remove boards as it looks.
Many firms sell "car rotissaries." You'd have to watch the battery acid, and hadn't thought about the plugs too.
Garage pits are illegal in some jurisdictions because of fumes or accidents. There's often hoists on sites like Craig's List and Kijiji.
Here's a new two-poster. Each has wheels so the posts can store against a wall. Tilt and wheel them over to bolt-receivers you sank in the floor, and screw the post feet into them. Called MaxJax. Doesn't lift quite as high as most hoists.
Then there's the self-tilting or teeter-totter ramp. You drive up the ramps (usually adjustable for separation). When on, drive forward a bit more, and the top of the structure changes from tilted up to horizontal by tilting down from the weight of the vehicle, through a pivot under where the ramps attach. One company made and sold them but can't find it now. There's a video on one in use on YouTube, I think under teeter-totter ramp or hoist.
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Received the below email. Wasn't able to replicate the "click here for the video" address, but you should be able to retrieve it from the site below. You'll see that it doesn't lift as high as other units.
Legendery talk show host and car collector Jay Leno is a proud new owner of a Dannmar MaxJax Lifting System. So proud in fact, that he saw fit to demo it on his website: www.jaylenosgarage.com.
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That's what I emailed them: lower the price and raise the height, and I'll buy one.
The designer wouldn't want the posts to be too high for easy moving around, but the innards could have been a nest of three rather than of two (if that's clear).
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Yes, celebrity endorsements are as logical as buying "Tiger Woods" to be irresistable to women. I reported the site not because Leno accepted a freebie but
because it clearly shows the MaxJax in action.
Yes, the floor mount system could be a weak spot, I was thinking because of solid and liquid waste plugging the hole. (To vary the post separation you need to buy extra sets.)
Still awaiting a breakthrough, meanwhile keeping my floor jacks and stands.
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