Big RED Hand Chain Hoist: 2 Heavy Duty Hooks, 8ft/2.5m Chain Length for Warehouse Building and Automotive Machinery, 1 Ton (2000 Lbs.) Capacity, Red

I used this chain hoist to remove the engine from my sailboat. It did exactly what I expected. I got the engine out. I have two complaints, First the entire hoist,chain and hooks are SOAKED in oil from the factory. I don't just mean oily, I mean absolutely DRIPPING with oil. It seems excessive. The other disappointment was the quality of the safety latches on the hooks. They are cheap and one was bent to the side. That being said, the chain hoist worked well and was easy to use. It made lifting the engine effortless. Also the hook to hook distance when fully retracted is only about a foot. This is important when working in close quarters. The bottom line, for the price, its a great value! I recommend it!

I hung a 4" i beam for a hoist for lifting maybe 1/2 ton max. I thought about a small electric hoist but I'm tired of fairly new electrical appliances breaking lately so I went old school with this chain hoist and couldn't be happier. First job was picking the bed up off my pickup and it worked great! The chain loop does not take much effort to pull plus it lifts/lowers faster than I thought it would. No problem. Looking forward to never having to replace this. Sometimes old school is better nowadays. I think the I beam is about 14' up and the chain lift/lower loop is maybe 10' down so it's perfect.

I have two chain hoists: this one and a similar one I bought at HFreight. The two hoists are very similar and both work well, in case you're shopping around. I think the HFreight one was a few bucks cheaper. Check out my video for a look at the hoist in my shop and in action. I have the hoist on a DIY gantry, allowing me to move it around and move things in and out of my trucks. I haven't used it for things that weigh over 500 lbs, but it's rated for much more weight than I use it for. This is a very simple, manual tool. Attach the hook and pull the chain for lifting. Pull the chain the other way for lowering. It's that easy.

Minus one star as the entire chain will change the color of your hands so needs gloves (avoiding cleaning it), and its more noisy than I'd like. Other than that, it was far cheaper for me to buy this than repair hydraulic lifts that I bought this to replace. It works good. I have other BIG RED products so went with this. I see some others have various issues. I'm only expecting to put up to about 200 lbs total on this, and so far its done that well and good, so likely won't test it above that. People *can* complain about the hook size. However, all hooks and hook type equipment generally won't get much into the hook because of the way they're designed. Instead of complaining, I ordered a d-ring shackle from another place although would have went with a Vevor shackle here on Amazon. These things are used in vehicle recovery and tend to break around 20k lbs so its not going to be a point of failure here and far more worth buying over complaining. It will fit on much more than hooks will and can be used for other things if wanting. There is a potential issue that I had seen. If the chain hits something like the ground, a table, or whatever, it can get tangled just enough to bind the tool as it can't go through like that. I expect some people may have had this as a problem and some may not realize. I backed it off and fixed the chain. Its a problem of chain methods and not of the product. Potentially there could be other issues such as with the locking mechanism as it suspends where it is (you don't need to keep holding the chain to keep something lifted). Loose bolts or debris could cause that to fail. I don't expect to see that happen to me, but I could see some factory QA problems cause that. Am happy enough with it. It has done what I needed it to do so far. *Will* update if that should ever change.

So far this has been a good chain hoist added to my garage. Now I will say I have not had to lift anything over 400 pounds so I cannot attest to how it handles higher weights. I use it for lifting heavy items that I can no longer lift due to an injury...even with help from another person or two I am not able to lift more than 45 pounds safely. Which is NOT going to stop me from working in the garage so I use this lift now instead of muscling everything like I did when I was younger. So...for what I needed it to do it does fine and I did not need to break the bank on a hoist when I will not be lifting anything over 500 pounds.

I got this for one purpose - hoisting the posts and top bar for a lift. Worked perfectly with 500 lb loads, very easy to use. This is the 1 ton version. It's compact, seems to be very well made. It has a pretty high gear ratio, so lifting with it takes very little force on the lift chain. I'll now use it for a general purpose hoist for things like car engine removal, etc. since I already have eye bolts installed that just happened to line up with the front of a car parked in the lift area. Very pleased.

I've never used a hoist before, and am intending to use this to lift some heavy items up to a tall shelf in my garage (a snowblower and a pressure washer). I'm blown away at the leverage this thing provides; lifting the pressure washer required so little effort that I'd have sworn I wasn't lifting anything. The flip side of this is that things lift VERY slowly. I realize this is good for safety, and presumably this isn't something you'd use to move stuff on a frequent basis, but the relative speed did make me wonder if I'd have been better off getting a powered one. However, given the price, frequency of use (infrequent), and safety implied by the slow lifting, I think this will be perfect for my needs.

I had a 250 lb tool to raise from the floor to put on its stand. I may be a manly man, but I knew there was no way to dead lift this item by brawn. I considered buying a block& tackle at first. But, after looking at all the options, it became clear that this Big Red hoist was just the thing. I ordered it, and after it arrived I opened the box, hooked the hoist to a chain looped over the rafter, and in less than 3 minutes I had raided this 250 lb tool and lowered it onto its metal stand. Done. The cool thing, was I could do it with one hand, super easy. A 5 year old kid could have used the Big Red just as easily as I did. Sorry I waited all these years to buy one of these. When I think about all the crazy heavy tools I have moved with sheer muscle and a come-a-long...............groan.

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This was used to lift a snowmobile and also an ATV quad. Great product and great value.

Todo bien, justo lo que esperaba

Una de las mejores compras, esta herramienta es de lo mejor, cumple todo lo que describe. Levanta un motor de auto sin problema.

These were a really good deal compared to the prices everyone else sells chain hoists for. The rental places (around me at least) no longer rent them due to liability issues because they can't test the engineering on them after every rental. Used two and lifted down a 2000lb steel i-beam with ease