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Harbor Freight 6000 Lb. Capacity Scissor Lift Review, Central Hydraulics, is it worth it?

Feb 27, 2020
This is the Harbor Freight

scissor

lift

. I ordered it when a sale for 25 came up and I really wanted one of these. I think it will work great in my store, but I want to show you some of the videos so you can see it. how big it really is, this is a traditional eight foot bed and it doesn't fit all the way forward with the tailgate up, it's actually a few inches back but it's still a little longer than eight feet and It is approximately four feet wide. it's stuck in this box and this little box up here now the first thing I notice is this box is banged up and vice versa and honestly all the other

review

s I found there aren't many there are a few

review

s online that talk about this. the box was banged up when they received it and mine was too, the unit itself is heavy, I was scared and arranged to meet the driver and my original plans were to slide this off his track and onto mine, now the cargo truck It's a little higher.
harbor freight 6000 lb capacity scissor lift review central hydraulics is it worth it
So they didn't quite line up and, honestly, this thing is so heavy that it was barely manageable by three relatively strong guys and we struggled and finally got it here, but it was pretty much all we could do to move this thing. from your track to this truck and we had a pallet truck, it's so long one end wants to fall off and, you know, lying on the ground, the pallet truck can't seem to

lift

that end and it's all a couple of the guys can do just lift one so they are very heavy, keep this in mind if you ship one of these to your house, you will at least need a lift gate and a couple of big guys to operate the main handle.
harbor freight 6000 lb capacity scissor lift review central hydraulics is it worth it

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Getting it out of the truck by myself was another story, however, I was able to use the small cherry picker bolted to the three points of my tractor and I was able to handle it and get it out by myself. Everyone complains about the pump assembly taking a beating during shipping as you can see the box is pretty beat up and the shipper told me if I wanted to reject it I could do so this is how we got it and I told him no . I expected this pump to be a little damaged and figured I'd just run it, which is pretty much what everyone else does, which is why Harbor Freight doesn't seem to know how to package them so they don't break.
harbor freight 6000 lb capacity scissor lift review central hydraulics is it worth it
I don't know, I'm sure it's not really Harbor Freight's problem, it's probably the people they order it from because you know Harbor Freight doesn't make them like a foreign company. That said, I only got a few minor issues that aren't going to be a big deal, the condenser cover is a little bent and just needs to be straightened and screwed back on. The wheel at the bottom is completely broken, no big deal. A wheel comes to mind. The only thing that surprised me is that it got wet. You can see some rust down here and if you look up front you can see some rust up here.
harbor freight 6000 lb capacity scissor lift review central hydraulics is it worth it
It is actually unacceptable for any company to deliver an item like this, but it is Harbor Freight. It was cheap, let's just deal with it, so I went to the hardware store and bought a couple of steel wheels that they fit on. I had to take the lathe and shorten the shoulders to clean them up. a bit, they fit well and it allows me to move this whole contraption, although it is a little difficult, more on that later, it's been a few days and I've been able to spend some time setting up this unit. I have it in the garage and it's facing the right direction and I will say that I have some kind of temporary wiring on 220, as you can see.
I bought some decent quality hydraulic fluid and let's try it now. I know there's a problem, but I want you guys to see it and maybe be able to listen and hear what's going on, so the way this works is there's a button and then there's a valve. The valve is simply a kind of relief valve that brings it down. The button turns it on. pump it up it doesn't make much noise everything is going relatively well so far so good and right there it is sucking in air so I guess there is probably some kind of collection tube that is supposed to reach to the bottom of this container and it is either bent or it has a hole or something and we are picking up air now when I tilt it back I can make it pick up more so now I have to take this apart and fix yet another problem so four bolts take the The tank is off and the pump on It's actually at the top, it's hanging off this engine up here and what I found was that this piece here that's supposed to be attached here was actually at the bottom of the tank, so we were just picking up at this high level. which is probably a little bit below the fluid level and once the machine got a little higher it started sucking in air which we could hear and that's why you couldn't pick up that it was literally just a compression style fitting that There was a ferrule on it and what makes me laugh a little is that the Pharaoh hadn't been crushed so someone didn't tighten the nut properly and it just slipped over time or they forgot to tighten the nut so anyway It was just a matter of putting it back together and tightening the nut.
It should be ready. Now we'll put it all together and give it another test. Okay, everything is back together and let's give it a try and see how well it works. It sounds very smooth and it's pretty quiet and I think we've moved on from where we were before, that click is the safety mechanism right there that's falling into the slots, okay, it's fully extended, the height of the platform, as you can see, It's just a little. a little over 52 inches and the height to the bottom of the platform is around 55 and a half inches so almost four feet is not bad as with all lifts this lift has a locking mechanism and It is controlled by what appears to be a brake. handle of a bicycle and what it does is it drops a fairly strong piece of metal into these slots, which prevents it from falling over like a jack stand.
Now there are seven positions that were important to me because what I really want to do with this table or this lift is lower it down to table height and make maybe a 4x8 sheet of plywood or something, maybe a top. aluminum or something to put on top so I can use it in my garage as a work table when I'm not using it as a lift. Going down it is very, very slow, at least without a car on it. We'll put a car in here in a moment and see how well it lifts it. You can see.
I'm leaving it. down and it's very slow, that's probably fine, I imagine that's a good safety factor since with most of these

scissor

lifts there are these type of articulated arms that rotate in many different directions and slide and the pads They slide in and out simply. It just makes it a little easier to find a spot under your car, a lifting point, if you will, to lift it safely. I have seen many people try this lift with smaller vehicles. This is a full size car. It's a Town Car. It has a full frame and I will say the clearance was still a little tight, there was only about a quarter of an inch to spare between the top of the jack and the bottom of the car, now the Town Car sits relatively low in comparison. to older Town Cars, but I imagine if you had a newer vehicle that is quite low, you might have to drive it on some boards.
I saw a video where a guy put two by sixes on each side and drove the car on top of the two by six and that gave them the clearance they needed, but at first glance it's pretty tight even for a Town Car, let's go ahead and lift this car and let's see how well it does, how do they say it? No guts, no glory, well, let's see how. strong these welds are good not bad the pump really didn't seem to have any problems the engine sounded pretty smooth and has lifted the car quite a bit now i have a nine foot roof and i have some garage doors and stuff to a certain extent There are workarounds, maybe we'll get to that in another video, but you can move all this stuff out of the way, turn off the lighting, and stand up a couple more feet, but I think this will actually be enough for what I need.
Do it now to give you a reference, we have the frame about three feet off the ground. I have about nine feet of ceiling it's just shy of nine feet and you can see with the garage door I was still able to lift the car three feet in the air now that being said you can take some of the things off you can basically do a roll-up garage door or even get rid of the bar here, put the car in the garage and lower the doors that will open. between the doors you can recess lighting and instead of making a ceiling mounted garage door opener you can definitely make a wall mounted garage door opener that will clear the ceiling, maybe in a future video we will make something like that.
And subscribe, but for now I think 36 inches is plenty and that will make this car a lot easier to work on, so I'm very happy that this lift can lift this car without any problems. Now let's go ahead and let the car go down, it goes down a little bit faster with a lot of weight and that's to be expected now. I don't know how well you can see it in this picture, but again, this is a city car. I feel like they sit higher than most cars they aren't as tall as the older Town Cars but you can see there isn't much room between the top of this lift and the lift so the lift is a little thicker than I would like to see.
It lifts this car very well and the car cleans it, although it is tight, to move it around your garage. One end has a set of metal wheels and you are supposed to use the motor pump assembly as a dolly to lift this lift. Point here and then You can move it theoretically now that, having said that, it's very difficult to maneuver with this. You can do it, but it's hard, it's not something you really want to do all the time, so my intention is to leave it where it is and again. I'm going to put some kind of table on it and use it as a table unless I need a car nearby, so I'll remove the tape and drive the car.
Now the bottom line and I'm sure everyone is asking about this is it's

worth

the money. I will say that I had a 25 off coupon that took me 400 off the top which made it extremely competitive and in fact I couldn't find another coupon that cheap on the market so the price increase is quite. cheap and does the job, that being said I had a problem with this and if you do a little research a lot of people end up with problems with these they are mainly related to shipping sometimes this is broken sometimes the switch is broken the capacitor is broken fell and as we have seen with mine the pickup tube had fallen into the tub so I had to take it apart and fix it and then also the top took a small bump on the capacitor cover and was able to fix it.
One of the wheels was broken, so I had to put another one on it. I didn't put a lot of money into it for a little while, so I'll say yes, it's

worth

it, but I think. Harbor Freight could do a better job packaging this guy specifically. I myself am pleased with the purchase, the welds look great on my particular unit, but that said, if you search online, look at some of other people's listings, their welds may be a little sketchy, I wasn't worried , I'd just re-solder them if it were me, but if you're not comfortable soldering you certainly don't want to, you should be able to trust the manufacturer's solders now.
The bottom line is that if you could ship this to your residence and it was in good condition, it seems worth it; However, in my case I had to do a little DIY and if you're a do-it-yourself type of person like mine, it's probably worth the money, but if you need something faster, you need it to work right away, you need it to work. work out of the box, you should probably look for a different company and you'll probably have to pay a little more, that's pretty much all I have for this review, if you like these types of videos please like and subscribe.
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