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tlukasavige172's avatar
Jul 17, 2013

Any Ideas For A Lift System In The Garage?

So I'm looking for ideas on a snowmobile/dirt bike lift in the garage of a toy hauler. It needs to lift about 1500 pounds off the floor and about 5 feet into the air. I was thinking something like a Happijac bed lift system and called them to find out what the motor can handle for weight. Once they found out what it was for they said they needed to end the conversation and hung up on me. It must have been a liability issue. So I'm looking for some ideas on what others may have done or maybe you can think of a better idea than me.

I'm basically looking for a weigh to haul 2 snowmobiles and 2 dirtbikes. I'd like to have 2 levels like you'd find in a stacker trailer for vehicles.

Here is a pic of my garage. It is an 8 foot tall ceiling and I understand I have some things to work around such as the cabinets and folding couches. Post up any ideas you have and thank you for your help in advance.

16 Replies

  • Well there's a catch, the sleds will have timbersled conversions on them (snowbikes) and come in at about 12' long which is about the same length as the snowmobiles.
  • Have you tried to get 2 sleds & 2 bikes in the garage. I'm thinking you should be able to fit a bike between to sleds and a bike crossways either in front or rear. You TH is about as wide as most trailers which should be able to accommodate 3 sleds. (2 forward & middle backwards). How long are your sleds? May have trouble fitting last bike perpendicular.
  • Yeah the wheels would have to come off. I'm trying to gather some ideas of what's out there and then will probably have to build my own system as it will need to fit perfectly into the trailer and wrap around the wheel wells. I'd also like a system that is electric as I will be putting it up and down quite regularly.
  • I think the wheeled lift system would put too much weight on too small a "footprint" for the usual toyhauler floor. If you could put the lift in the trailer by itself, without the wheels, then you'd spread the weight around and be OK.