After years of mooching shop space & time.......

[©Big6™]

Here is a little update, I've spent countless hours in the new garage, and still many more to get it where I want.

Picked up a hoist from Kevin in Amherst...



On the way back thru Truro, Scottie and I grabbed a pellet stove from my sisters basement, winter tires for the truck and a set of used tires he found on Kijiji for himself...We looked like Junk Collectors!

Pellet Stove...price was free!

Even came with the venting!


Hole for the vent.


Old programmable thermostat from the house....min temperature is 5 degrees C.


Will heat me out of the shop!


Now onto the fun stuff...
Brought in my longest vehicle to place the first post on the hoist.


Had some good helpers move the hoist into place and start drilling holes.




Took me a few evenings to get the hydraulics leveled out so that both arms went up the same.

First car I had to put up, co-workers that I swapped tires.


Only issue is the ceiling was too low....so once I discovered that we had placed the hoist exactly under a roof truss....had a few folks over one Friday night and we moved the hoist 8" ahead.

This past weekend, cut the ceiling out so that I can get full height.



I can walk clear under the arms now!
Grabbed some plywood to box in my new skylight!
The hoist arms double as a work bench!




I still have to finish insulating the box in the attic. As well we relocated 2 lights, and I have 4 more to install at the back of the garage.

Happy with the progress so far...garage is warm, beer is cold and the stereo works!




Next on the list is to finish unpacking and declutter the shop!

[mostheman]

How thick was the slab under the hoist?

I would like to do the same to my garage but an concerned with bearing at post locations.

P.S.

Nice shop and Lift.

[©Big6™]

I went down 5" and didn't drill all the way thru! It is a very well built garage from what I've seen.

[Deleted]

Concrete comes in different strengths for different purposes. Code requires 15 MPa (2175 psi) concrete for basic shallow foundation walls. Full height basement walls and basement floor slabs require 20 MPa (2900 psi) but garage floors require 32 MPa (4640 psi). That's a lot of strength and unless you're going to hoist a D-9, you should be fine.

[Dewie]

Very nice!

[mostheman]

Did you use chemical anchors or Mechanical? (Epoxy or Wedge Anchors)

*Planning in my head* (although I would probably cut the slab and thicken it at the post locations as my slab doesn't seem too thick by the way it has crowned.)

[©Big6™]

Mechanical. This is the 4th or 5th hoist I have put in over the years. All with Mechanical anchors. I had some free epoxy for concrete, but it was expired. As well if you read the instructions, you have to oversize the holes, and I wasn't able to do that with the size of the hole in the metal base plate. The mechanical anchors are sized to that hole....so I would have to go with smaller diameter rod in a chemical anchor situation. The trick with the mechanical anchors is to not use an impact or over tighten. I have done both in the past with bad results.

I got 16 - 5/8 x 5" anchors at transworld for $40!

[itsakeeper]

The most surprising thing I've seen is the 2x4 they used for strapping the ceiling instead of 1x3 - weird.

[itsakeeper]

Hey wait a minute. Who was working and who was taking pictures

[©Big6™]

Clearly the foreman was taking pictures!

Thanks for all the assistance Bill! And for the stool!

[badwithcomputer]

For some reason, and I don't know what it is but you could take a picture of someone sweeping their shop floor and i'd be excited to check the thread.

Nice garage!

[Creepy]

Looks great! looking forward to checking it out in person.

[SocialWheeler]

Looks great man. Love the ceiling hole.

[dan]

Not the first ceiling hole I've seen created for a hoist. looks great