hi i am removing an old single post air drive hydraulic lift/hoist and was wondering the best way to remove it. i do have access to plenty of tools and i have some one helping me. i would appreciate fast responses because we are starting on saturday. thank you
Great answers, and yeah that sucker IS HEAVY. LOL nobody mentioned that it's actually not hydraulic though. It's pneumatic, it goes up by compressed air. Guess that don't matter too much. Be glad it's not hydraulic. You know how much oil that thing would need? Wow, and that size it would lift an entire building. Those older things are not the safest, true, but you have to get rid of it? LOL wish I had one of those older ones in my garage for certain applications. Maybe you could sell it to a barber shop that does really heavy people. No? LOL Use an impact gun when you take off those old bolts, and I would use something quite a bit heavier duty than uh lets just say a bobcat wouldn't be safe. Payloader should do the tricck with some good chain. You having pizza afterwards then let me know I'll be there (for the pizza) LOL see ya good luck
are you planning to reinstall it at another location? if so, that's really cool. good luck. drink lots of water
If your just wanting toget rid of it ,why can't you unbolt it ,then have it winched out of the hole,now fill the hole with some dirt.
I have removed only one. We unbolted the bolts to the cylinder base and used a backhoe to lift it up. Not bad toke about two hours to remove the cruddy bolts. A large fork lift should work as well i think. Be careful , That thing is HEAVY.
