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Pro tip: blew $400 on a cabinet lift, and I'm not sure if I'm a genius or a sucker
Two years back I dropped about $400 on a used cabinet lift for my garage setup, and I still can't decide if it was the best money I ever spent or the dumbest. The thing weighs a ton, takes up a corner I could use for plywood, and my buddy keeps telling me a couple of sawhorses and my back worked fine for 15 years, so why change now. But then I remember the pantry job in Peoria last spring, where I had to hang 9 uppers solo and did the whole run in an afternoon without one trip to the chiropractor. The flip side is the days I'm doing face frames or small wall units and that lift just sits there mocking me, eating floor space I don't have. I've heard guys swear by them and guys who sold theirs within a month, so clearly it's not one size fits all. For the folks who own one, did it pay for itself or did you end up going back to muscle and a step stool? And for the ones who passed, what made you skip it?
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milesj7018d ago
Used to laugh at guys with lifts too, then my back quit.
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