Now that’s a lift

[Charles Cook]

 

[Jerry Hall]

And............one heck of a shop.

 

[f569]

My work occasionally presents opportunities for me to visit some pretty cool places. Mostly it's electrical service rooms rooms in the basements of mundane NYC buildings but every so often I get tossed a bone. The bottom of the reflecting pools at the new Trade Center site, in the steel of the George Washington Bridge, stuff like that.
One such job was an FDNY heavy equipment repair facility in Long Island City. My memory tells me the facility was a city block square in area (fuzzy on that) but what I remember vividly was lift after lift with the biggest of the citys apparatus up in the air being serviced. Lifts carrying the truck/trailer hook and ladders just blew me away!

 

[Triplegreen500]

We had one like that when I worked for an RV dealer. That was the old one. The new shop had four individual posts, connected by a cat5 cable and computer controlled, each one basically a forklift. Set one at each of the four outermost wheels, and hit "go" to lift anything up to and including the heaviest diesel pusher motorhomes. They would also lift from the frame for tire/wheel work, when needed.

 

[T2R9]

We have one of those at work for our fire trucks. Also have a set of the mobile 4 post ones they use mainly on the garbage trucks.

 

[YY1]

You should have seen the stuff they had at the "Annett" bus service facility I helped install the electrical in back in 1989.