the design of the lift looks flawed to me. thats why i wanted to see the whole thing. look at Monte's his pushes straight up. Mike's base is set further back and pushes out and up, not a good thing imo.
Mine appears to have the same size ram as Mr Ps.....but I have picked up things WAY heavier than a small block/tranny combo. I think his ram is simply in the wrong place.......easy fix. Mine is 30 years old and we have split tractors with mine.
I would imagine the ram is set back on his to help get closer to stuff without hitting the ram on the front.......but again, easy fix. Extendable boom. When I have to do that, I just put a few 100lb tractor weights on the rear of mine
MrP........I also have a lift like you say with splayed legs. I simply cut notches in the legs, pulled them together with a ratchet strap, welded them back up. From what I see, your lift looks really heavy duty, just bad ram placement
