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Moving a 4 Post Lift

dfrazz

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I recently sold my 4 post to my friend who has a lot more room than me and only lives 10 minutes away when I need to use it. We didn't want to disassemble the whole thing, move it and then have to reassemble it. After some careful measuring, we put it on a flat bed. Here is how we did it -
 
NICE.

Another way is to raise the deck, back a flat bed trailer under it and then lower the deck down onto the trailer. 4 good ratchet straps, one on each post base, and raise the posts up. Strap it down and go. Destination, pop the straps and lift the deck back up and drive out from under it.
 
Good job. I wish mine could have been moved like that. I had to disassemble and bring it back on a car trailer as it was down near Baltimore then reassemble it…
 
I moved mine across town on a rollback. It was 17 years ago and I don’t remember the cost but it was easily worth it at the time.
 
NICE.

Another way is to raise the deck, back a flat bed trailer under it and then lower the deck down onto the trailer. 4 good ratchet straps, one on each post base, and raise the posts up. Strap it down and go. Destination, pop the straps and lift the deck back up and drive out from under it.
I'm not sure I understand how this would work. If you raise the deck on the lift, the flat bed will not fit between the posts of the lift. The entire lift would have to be raised outside of the garage.
 
I'm not sure I understand how this would work. If you raise the deck on the lift, the flat bed will not fit between the posts of the lift. The entire lift would have to be raised outside of the garage.
Yes, you would probably need no wider than a 5 or 6’ wide bed trailer depending on space between the legs of your lift. Mine is a smaller lift, probably about 7’8” clear between legs at most. Probably would have to be a 5’ wide trailer to get the wheel wells to clear. But it went up on a roll back pretty slick.
 
Yes, you would probably need no wider than a 5 or 6’ wide bed trailer depending on space between the legs of your lift. Mine is a smaller lift, probably about 7’8” clear between legs at most. Probably would have to be a 5’ wide trailer to get the wheel wells to clear. But it went up on a roll back pretty slick.
Ya, the posts on my lift were wider. The tow drive had to remove the rails on the side of the flat bed so the posts would fit. All worked out in the end.
 
I'm not sure I understand how this would work. If you raise the deck on the lift, the flat bed will not fit between the posts of the lift. The entire lift would have to be raised outside of the garage.
I said flat bed trailer... not a deck truck. My direct lift wouldn't even sit on that deck truck. Mine is 9' 2" wide BETWEEN the posts.
 
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