Auto Hoist

[TOM REED]

Properly placed on the hoist the vehicle should be near balanced from front to back, the hoist anchors have most the most force directed down to the base plates. Usually there is a plate or formed channel from one side to the other. Most of them if the vehicle is placed on the hoist properly could lift the vehicle without being fastened to the floor. The anchors are mainly for extra stability when wrenching on vehicles or for improperly balanced vehicles. Your friend that had the anchors pull out as you said was regularly lifting 3/4 ton trucks, I will bet some even with service bodies. Anchors for this type of hoist should alway either cemented in to the floor or epoxied just for safety sake. I started using hoists of this type as well as beam type hoists since I" was 15 yrs old and never dropped a vehicle. I have seen vehicles that were pkaced incorrectly or grossly overloaded bend in the middle giving 2 ft ground clearance in the middle and 6 inches at the bumpers, this looked quite comical. These were pickup trucks where the frame bent.

tom