Simply the best car and truck lift for home garages on the market.
BACKYARD BUDDY
Rugged, Safe, Quality Construction. Made in the USA.
American Made, American Owned, American Backed.
Compare the American Made Backyard Buddy Car and Truck Lift corner post design to cheaper lifts
- 4 x 4 inch structural square tubing is many times stronger than folded, open sided corner supports cheaper lifts use. They usually have a bolt across the top to keep them from spreading
- The large contact area of the sleeves that slide over the 4 x 4 post is what gives our lifts their amazing stability. Backyard Buddy home garage lifts are so stable, that they don't have to be bolted to your garage floor. The feet on our lifts don't even have holes drilled for bolts. That's how confident we are in the proven design of the Backyard Buddy lift
- Stability is important because if the lift can wobble, the latch can disengage. On some cheaper lifts, the latch tab only engages a small welded on block by 1/4 inch. That isn't much contact area if the lift wobbles.
- Our heavy steel lock levers automatically engage slots machined out of the 4 x 4 inch tubing, much like a door deadbolt. With the weight of the deck and vehicle resting on the locking lever and locking it in the slot, there is no way for the lock to disengage. The only way to disengage the latch is to raise the deck slightly. There is also a secondary automatic cable tension lock.
- >Because you don't have to bolt our car lift to your garage floor, you can roll it around the garage with the optional castors, even with a car on it! This is a great feature. Say the ceiling in your home garage is eight feet. This is high enough to do most service work, but say you need to change a clutch or an exhaust system. You can roll your Backyard Buddy car lift outside on the driveway to use it's full height and roll it back in the garage when its done.
Before you buy a cheaper lift for your home garage, check these additional features...
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Made in the United States in our factory in Ohio. Not in China and assembled, painted or boxed here.
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We use American or North American steel. Not imported.
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Our decks use tread plate welded to a fabricated 4 x 4" angle iron frame. Others just use folded tread plate that can distort under load.
Lock Detail As you can see, the large steel sleeve (2) captures the lock (3) in the slots (5) cut in each corner post (1). The lift has to be raised slightly to free the lock and disengage it.
Backyard Buddy
Column Detail A large 12" long steel sleeve (2), lined with four UHMW guides (4), envelops each 4 structural tubing corner post (1). This ensures that a Backyard Buddy lift can't wobble and disengage the locks.
Competitor's Lock Detail The only thing holding your car up is lever (3) supported by small blocks (5) welded on the post (1). A small block (6) keeps lever (3) from flipping over backward. Note the small contact area (circled). Very crude!
Competitor's Column Detail Looking down inside the open sided column (1), You can see the two slides (4) supporting the lift and the lever (3) retained by piece (6). Your vehicle is supported by small questionable welds and imported steel.
Please stop buy our factory showroom or visit our display at larger car shows and compare the quality of the hardware we use, the quality of the welds, the lack of dirt and splatter in the finish. In short, it's clear, you get what you pay for.