Gents,
I'm moving my 4 post lift out of my residential garage to another residential garage. Garage doors are 96" wide, and 84" high. Lift is 102" OA, and 75" across the runners, and about 82" high at the top of the towers.
Prior to this occasion, I moved it by breaking it down, and hand loading the subcomponents onto a flat bed. That was 11 years ago, and I'm wondering if I can work smarter this time. Idea being to drop the lift onto the casters, and get it out of the garage door opening 1 post at a time by running it through diagonally, much the same way you'd maneuver a couch through a door way. Then winch it onto a flat bed, and drop the columns to get it off the casters.
Has anyone done this? My concern is the lift is not super easy to maneuver on the casters in my limited experience, it might take some leverage and assist of a winch, so I'll have to figure out some anchor points to move the lift in the desired direction. And it'd be a bit of a bummer to get stuck, either because it physically won't get out the opening, or I can't move the thing the way I need to.
Basically, am I going to spend more time winching and maneuvering than I would on disassembly/reassembly?
I'm moving my 4 post lift out of my residential garage to another residential garage. Garage doors are 96" wide, and 84" high. Lift is 102" OA, and 75" across the runners, and about 82" high at the top of the towers.
Prior to this occasion, I moved it by breaking it down, and hand loading the subcomponents onto a flat bed. That was 11 years ago, and I'm wondering if I can work smarter this time. Idea being to drop the lift onto the casters, and get it out of the garage door opening 1 post at a time by running it through diagonally, much the same way you'd maneuver a couch through a door way. Then winch it onto a flat bed, and drop the columns to get it off the casters.
Has anyone done this? My concern is the lift is not super easy to maneuver on the casters in my limited experience, it might take some leverage and assist of a winch, so I'll have to figure out some anchor points to move the lift in the desired direction. And it'd be a bit of a bummer to get stuck, either because it physically won't get out the opening, or I can't move the thing the way I need to.
Basically, am I going to spend more time winching and maneuvering than I would on disassembly/reassembly?