New shop and suggestions

a 3/4 ton truck weights about 3 tons........ is that the biggest thing you put on a lift ?  You dont have a lift now ? .... do you do any OFF ROAD accessories / truck suspension / modifications ?.... thats big money in a lot of areas.. kids like to play in the dirt.

bobkyllo wrote:  Would I be better off getting a 12000 pound drive on and also a 10000 pound 2 post?

Edited by jaybmiller - 30 Jan 2021 at 5:24pm

It’s a snap on 2 post. Made by wheeltronics which was a Cdn company. 10,000 lb hoist but I would say that would stretching it a bit. The 59 Chev goes up real easy no special adaptors.

I owned my tire shop for 22+ years. When we bought the property it was an old gas station with an in ground single post hoist. We put up a new building and went with 4 post lifts along with bridge jacks. When my back got too bad to work in a tire shop I sold it and went to work for our local car dealership which has 2 post hoists. After using 4 post hoists, I absolutely detest 2 post hoists. You cannot do much under the car/pickup without the darn things hitting your head on the dam things. The dealership I bought my pickup from has 4 post in ground hoists. I never looked into the cost of them. If I could afford them that is the way I would go. What ever hoist you buy, if they are cable operated, keep the cables well lubed with something like Kroll. The cables will eventually fray and need replaced. We changed oil and did tire work. If you can get picked up buy Goodyear you can provide tires to the cops and other state agency's on the National Account program. I had 4-6 full-time guys working for me all the time. Sometimes bringing in 2 sons on Sat just to do oil changes. We primarily catered to farmers and the ladies driving to work. We had a man come every week and fill up our supply of oil filters, when we put up the new shop we went to bulk Valvoline oil. Keep in mind all these places that change oil have 2 different grades of oil. They have a grade of oil that barely meets OEM specks and they have 1 that far exceeds OEM specks. We used the better grade. Our hours were 7:30 till 5:30 Monday thru friday and 7:30 till noon on Sat. There were weekdays we didn't get out of there till 6:30:on weekdays and 2:00:on Sat. It also helped that we has a restruarnt next to us and another across the street that the farmers congested to drink coffee. Get yourself a good bookkeeper that knows business accounting. Well worth the cost. It was a good 22+ years. If my back was still good, Id still own the place.

I used the single post hoist as well back in the day at a local shop. Lifted tons of those x-frame cars. There were lots of those 59 to 64 chevys then. No problem lifting them either. Lift at frame where it widens. Same on the new 2 post. Not sure why there would be any issue. 

Here is the Chevy on hoist. Oh and that is a 1960 in case the correct police are on the job. Lol. Standard 2- post that lots of shops are using.

Good storage hoist.