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Operating the Lift and Final Checks

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Work Truck Lift Gate

What happens here

After loading the snowblower and securing it, raise the platform using the control panel on the lift gate. Once raised, the platform folds up vertically and locks into place, effectively becoming a tailgate. Note that the lift gate also includes LED lights at the bottom which function as brake lights and turn signals, integrated with the truck's electrical system. It's noted that the power switch on the lift gate can also raise and lower the jack stands manually if power is lost.

Goal: Demonstrate the lift gate's functionality as a tailgate and verify integrated lighting.

Tools and materials

  • Liftgator Unit Liftgator — Functioning as a lift and a tailgate
  • Pickup Truck Dodge Ram 2500 — Providing the hitch receiver and electrical connection
  • Snowblower — Providing weight for the lift demonstration

What they say

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[Music] that aluminum ramp is really light and once you push it up it locks in place and that becomes your tailgate that doesn't lock in place yep tail lights are on the bottom you see this thing that got beat to crap from [ __ ] that's the led lighting yeah oh they still work i'll have to bend that off to straighten that metal out and straighten them like put them lights out yeah but they still work yeah the whole shroud got bent yeah and when the shipping company brought it they snapped this and then uh this is actually look at the led lighting's actually twisted right there see they it stopped kind yeah they wrecked it didn't they pretty much yeah i mean the lighting ah it's not the unit itself isn't wrecked but man look at how hard they hit that do you know they had this sitting in their warehouse for two weeks and i i contacted the company's like hey are you ever gonna take a look at that lift gator and i'm like hey when are you gonna send it and they're like we sent that two weeks ago and the shipping company was calling sitting there yeah they never called me oh wow and they just kept moving it around beating it up look at the light is dented in yeah that one side yep that one side that one was yeah did i even look to i walked on the other side to see if they'd both be like that right kind of kind of wild okay uh hey hit the brake lights i want to see if those are integrated if those lights are integrated to the brake lights or what they are oh yeah oh yeah those are integrated and the blinkers dang it half of it yup yup oh yeah yeah they got it integrated right into the blinkers oh there we go and now you can raise and lower your jack stands if you lose your power yep okay oh dude we're doing it wrong we did it wrong every single time because we got to have the jack stands down well when you lift it up and down yeah oh for support yeah now maybe we should try doing it again the right way okay okay i promise you we will

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