F18Rep

I think thats probably right. The things I liked about the 4 post was: no real anchoring needed, individual parts are lighter and a move from one garage to another is not a huge undertaking.
I got close to buying twice. Once was a divorce sale, dumped wife dumping ex's toys $400, I missed it by 10 minutes. And then the second was a 1 year old that sold on craigslist before I could get off work and get over there.
There was a pretty nice commercial 4 post in the local CL for a long time (maybe still there) for $1400 but it was really long - a monster and the ramps looked like they might weigh in at 500 lb.

Doc...Good, a sanity check is in order. But here's my thinking, first 1 foot vs 4 foot is not much different from an effort/cost viewpoint (hoping to trade my neighbor a little snowplow work for drilling them). Second, I really wasn't thinking I would pin the new footing to the surrounding slab - I'm not even exactly srue how to do that. So my footing is really nothing but piece of concrete that would look like a 3' X 2' X 6" sitting on a 8" X 4' cylinder. Some rebar and j-studs sicking up out of it. And another thing that I read over on the garage forum that sounded kinda logical... "...when the lift manufacturer says 4" slab is cool, well of course he's going to say that. How many would he sell if it was anything else. Consider that the absolute minimum." And did I mention I live right on the New Madrid fault where Nova says we're way overdue.... Anyway, a lot of good comments...Bruce

docwyte

4" is the minimum, but going from there to 4' is absurd. Like I said, if you want to do it with overkill 1' is fine. You don't think the commercial garages bave 4' of concrete under their lifts do you?

alordofchaos

Congrats, Bruce!

+1 jealousy
Welcome back, but that's not something you want to fool with.

944_S_TYPE

I thought the same thing...... Usually that power rack is good for a drip or two...

Fintro11

any body still have the thread where the picture of the wooden ramps where posted?

Giantviper

Nice Purchase. You will enjoy it. My Dad has a 4 post lift and becuase of that I go to his place to do 90% of all the work I do on my cars.