Thinking about a Direct lift for garage

[mike knight]

I built a 3 car garage and put in two lifts on each end. In the pics you can see the slope of the roof and the door as it is raised. There are a number of considerations that come into play. I have found only one jack shaft lift that will operate safely and not cause problems with unspooling the cables etc. In retrospect I would probably have gone with the wider lift as I have a couple of land yachts, 68' buick wildcat convert for example, that fills the lift width wise. It makes for some very interesting car jockeying which brings up another point. My garage is on an alley so when backing into the garage with the larger cars the angle on first approach is too sharp to clear the inside post.... as I said it makes for some interesting car jockeying. This is all mute with cars like the cobra but I mention it for the purpose of other large vehicles like a full sized suv. I am very satisfied with the overall increase in storage space. I will post more pics if my garage has any interest to ya.