MoJack ZR Lawn Tractor Lift w/ 250lb Capacity

Lifted lawnmower enough to clean it out before putting away for the winter. Haven't had it long enough to know the lifespan though.

This jack has served me well since I started using it earlier this year. It's made out of solid, heavy materials, has always been stable while I've used it, and hasn't shown any signs of wear over the few months that I've been using it. It does take some elbow grease to lift the front of my mower without a drill involved (more on that below), but that's to be expected when you're lifting a couple hundred pounds worth of mower. It's not unbearably difficult, just be prepared for some exercise; I'd say that if you can carry around the lift itself (it's about 40 pounds), you shouldn't have any problems cranking it up. The fact that it collapses fairly flat also makes it easy to hang on a wall for storage.There are a couple things worth noting: First, unless mine was missing a part, there isn't actually a way to raise this lift using a power drill - there's no adapter included to go from a drill chuck to the square hole in the lift. Second, your mower deck could possibly hit part of the lift when you're trying to drive onto the wheel brackets... but this should become a non-issue by just raising your mower deck.

I service many lawn tractors for my acreage. Works great to get at blades on the cutting decks.

I would have rated this product 5 stars except for the following:1. The Amazon page and the manufacturers page both incorrectly state the maximum outside front tire measurement is 45" but the manual states it is 43.5" and that's what I get for a measurement. The error does not affect me but there it is.2. The safety straps as delivered were threaded through the clasp in the wrong direction and would slip when pulled with any force. This is a safety error and mistake made during assembly at the factory. Easy enough to correct but most people are probably going to trust that the manufacturer got it right. Hopefully all of the jacks are not shipped with clasps that don't clasp right because the strap is fed wrong.Otherwise the jack was easy to operate and lifted the mower properly and seems solid. I had a drill ready but ended up just using the included hand crank because it was easy to do that way too. The safety catch seems good but you have to make sure you raise the mower high enough to engage it (there are two notches ... I only went to the first notch.The 250 lb front end weight limit is kind of weird number to make sense of but on the MoJack site they have a sizing chart and for a regular lawn tractor such as mine it states the front end weight may be 30-50% of the total weight. My mower weighs 418 lbs according to specification so 50% of 418 = 209 so it well within the limit.

Works exactly as described.