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Portable Lift
Anybody want their own portable lift? Found this on FB marketplace: LINK
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didn’t work
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It works when I click on it?
Do a FB marketplace search using the brand name “ari hetra”. That’s the brand. There are 4 of them, asking $13k, in NY.
I hope this helps
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They’re on Long Island, NY, and appear to be a charter bus operator. Looks like he has (or had) several sets of 4…anyone with a tag needs 6, right? He also has two seated coaches for sale, an XLII and H3.
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I suspect there will be lots of used wheel lifts for sale as seated coach operators go out of business, retire and sell of the coaches, consolidate, etc.
With a very few exceptions … the seated coach and entertainer coach businesses has run into a brick wall.
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Over the years I have done a lot of stuff on various coaches. Clearly the two best solutions for work under the chassis are a pit or wheel lift. Neither is perfect. They each have very serious differences and it is those differences that make the choice of one or the other important.
A pit with a width of 24″ allows full chassis support as well as a means of lifting a tire off the floor. Unfortunately a pit does not allow lifting so that things like removing a fuel tank are possible. The height of the coach is fixed, meaning to get the area being worked on up or down is limited to the distance the chassis will raise or lower.
A wheel lift allows an almost unlimited variation in height from the floor. That means almost any under chassis work can be done at the most convenient height. But there are downsides. A lift requires a very high ceiling. A lift cannot be used if the tires and wheels have to be removed.
Unfortunately unless a shop has a pit and wheel lifts service work is going to be a compromise.
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