quote:Originally posted by Mark:quote:Originally posted by Downunder:
John
Thanks for that!
Thinking of getting one, but limited on size and lift height.
Dennis
Sorry I did not get back to you right away, but John is right its a Backyard Buddy lift. My friend Rich just got it 2 weeks ago. Now he is taking about making his garage bigger and getting a longer lift to fit his truck. So he ask me if I wanted to buy the one he just got. I told him I would but I have to wait 1 or 2 years until he builds the garage. I hope I can wait that long
Presuming that you are going to stack two Panteras, I am pretty sure that even an 8'high ceiling is too low.
You are going to have to build a custom height garage in order to benefit from the lift completely.
If you have a wood frame freestanding garage with less height then you need, you make be able to remove the ceiling beams to gain more height.
If you do substitute collar beams every other roof rafter to give the building structural integraty and keep the ridge board as that.
If you don't you need to consider it as a header, which it was not designed for and it could collapse on you and yours toys.
That can't be good.