In December of 2023 we purchased a Kenco Multilift tool from your salesman Walter. What a great tool! We absolutely could not have done the job without it! We had to place 1700lb Oolite limestone blocks into place as a retaining wall. The job is at 1381 Cutler Court on Marco island, Fl. I can see we will be getting a lot of use out of this tool!
Thanks again for a great American made product!
I work for 4th Generation Construction, we are reclaiming the shore line of Lake Ontario at Krull park, NY. We are installing granite steps into the water and would not be able to pick them up and set them without your grabber. Thank you for the great product.
I am a plant manager at a concrete Precast facility and we have recently starting using your lifting products for moving our concrete casts with our hydraulic boom trucks and overhead cranes. Not only is it safer than our previous solutions but it’s also quick and efficient. Thanks again for the great product!
This multi clamp has drastically improved our set up times. No more time spent rigging chains or using unsure lifting procedures. This clamp is everything we asked for. Thanks Kenco!
“We got our Multilift earlier this year for this specific project. We had to take take Doran and rebuild the front entry balcony at a courthouse. It worked great for this project and made it so we did not have to drill lifting pin holes our stone. It also allowed us to easily and quickly pick up stone that we might otherwise have to pick up by hand. Not only did it make it easier to move the stones but it also was safer as we did not have employees trying to lift heavy stones.”
“We are a precast company that specializes in manholes and curb inlets. By using your product we have been able to reduce the load times preventing our Loader man from climbing up and down from the loader. This system has also prevented any unnecessary chips and cracks on the structures due to using chains when loading and unloading. Thank you for your product and I know it will serve us well.”
This attachment has allowed us to get our cap pieces into some tight areas, easy to attach and detach our caps and fascia pieces, great product.
“The multi-lift always worked great and never let us down. Thanks for manufacturing a quality product.”
Prior to using the Kenco Multilift, Landscape Forms were trying to work with chains and straps. After using the Multilift to move the forms, they “are sad that (the lifter) has to go with our concrete blocks to the contractor’s jobsite because they enjoyed using it.”
“The Kenco Multilift does an amazing job lifting these 5 thousand pound granite blocks. Reilly Construction purchased this lift for this purpose to move approximately 450 of these blocks and the investment is well worth it. Thanks Kenco for making this great product and saving time and cost!”
The only way to make a blog about a Kenco Multilift interesting is to be honest and a little, necessarily, self-effacing.
Last year, I landed the biggest project in my career thus far as a Stonesmith with a 7-figure budget. Due to a lot of weird and surprising constraints I had to get super creative about my approach in order to build on the scale and in the timeline desired by the client while still adhering to the “dry stone” method that I specialize in for all my works. But, this one had a new twist: The client wanted a modern, minimalist, mountain theme, which would require large, square and rectangular shaped pieces.
With these parameters in mind, my stone importer (based in Seattle) and I came up with an approach that combined a “Lego-like” building method with the flexibility of a “modular” design. The stone pieces ranged in weight from 200 to 2,000 pounds. (Now, keep in mind that most of the stone I’ve used over the years can be moved with a dolly, two men and some rock bars.) So, I ordered approximately 750,000 pounds of basalt and granite stone and had it shipped over from the quarries in Southern China. Then, I never thought twice about it because I was also the Project Director and had a hundred other tasks to focus on right away. In the back of mind I figured I’d just use skidsteer machines, 2×4 wood runners and pipe. If you look at photos and videos of the project thus far and the size of the stone we are moving around this is really embarrassing considering that my wall planks alone average 810 pounds each. But, I simply had no schema in my brain for anything like this.
By about the third day of installation I started panicking inside when I realized I’d not done my due diligence with planning and figuring how we were going to efficiently move hundreds of tons of stone around on a very, very tight schedule. A couple of the guys started drilling 2 holes in each 6′ long, 810 pound wall plank, inserted eye bolts and lifted them with straps. It worked! My first impression was that this would be the answer and I was happy. Certainly, a lot faster than pushing these pieces around with rock bars. Then, I did some calculations based on how many wall planks we were actually installing each day with this method and I panicked again.
The owner of the landscape design company that was collaborating with me on this project suggested I look into buying a lifting device he found online and he showed me a photo of Kenco’s Multilift. Once I looked at this, I realized a miracle was about to happen. I called Jessica at Kenco that same day and ordered two of them. We were all honestly blown away by how these lifting devices worked and how much stone they could hold and lift. We’ve been using them every day now for nearly 2-1/2 months. We’ve attached them to excavators and sky tracks. We’ve lifted pieces ranging from 200 to 1,400 pounds with both smooth and rough faces.
Today, if I start thinking about what we would have done (or not done) had we not discovered Kenco’s Multilifts, I feel nauseous inside. Along with some different compression driven vacuum lifters we purchased, Kenco’s Multilifts are such a game-changer for us now that we already see new possibilities for future stone projects where we can scale up the weight, size and shape of the stone we use.
We are a group of roofers from Boston local 33. We were tasked to install 2000 to 3000 lb concrete slabs on the roof of a new building project. At first we struggled with crane straps, which was a slow process and set us back a good deal of time. Our employer purchased the Kenco Multilift for us, and it made the job a hell of a lot easier. Thank you very much and keep innovating.
Setup was very easy. Before, we tried moving the blocks using other methods. The Multilift has saved us time and labor expenses. We would be behind schedule without it.
We used the ML3k clamp to move and set granite from a WWII memorial in Worcester Massachusetts. This is one of the most versatile lifters I have ever used. Hands down the right tool for the job.