And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Extremely handy and just as dangerous. I remember a (diminutive) friend trying to jack his jeep out of swamp mud and he hit the leverage just right - and launched himself. We almost killed ourselves laughing, but in reality he almost killed himself jacking. Be careful.
A great thing to have when you need one... up up up and up some more...then push it over. Cheap thrills as you walk your vehicle sideways to better ground. I will admit that last time I piled flat rocks under the tires when I got them out of the holes. The jack is tall and you need to find a good place to keep it.
Thinking about it I bought a come-a-long AFTER the first time I needed one, same for the hi-lift jack.
Buy one of these and you'll never have a puncture again. You will, however, lift furniture, jack out bodywork, straighten chassis rails and every other job apart from changing wheels!
Gotta keep control of the handle when lowering as well. Let the handle go as a kid, and the handle bounced off bottom and came back like scythe. Would have crushed my thumb, if I hadn't just moved it. Life lesson learned the easy way.
Dangerous as hell in the wrong hands. Had a friend that used one to lift up a big chisel plow to take the tire off. They found him two hours later underneath one of the teeth, no longer breathing. Emergency use only!!!
Extremely handy and just as dangerous. I remember a (diminutive) friend trying to jack his jeep out of swamp mud and he hit the leverage just right - and launched himself. We almost killed ourselves laughing, but in reality he almost killed himself jacking. Be careful.
ReplyDeleteA great thing to have when you need one... up up up and up some more...then push it over. Cheap thrills as you walk your vehicle sideways to better ground.
ReplyDeleteI will admit that last time I piled flat rocks under the tires when I got them out of the holes.
The jack is tall and you need to find a good place to keep it.
Thinking about it I bought a come-a-long AFTER the first time I needed one, same for the hi-lift jack.
Indeed. Made even better with a larger baseplate and a solid rod handle.
ReplyDeleteI've used the blade of a shovel to spread the load.
DeleteGreat for fence-post removal. Just needs chain and immagination.
ReplyDeleteI've used one for stretching barbed wire.
DeleteBuy one of these and you'll never have a puncture again. You will, however, lift furniture, jack out bodywork, straighten chassis rails and every other job apart from changing wheels!
ReplyDeleteas the youngest, was in charge of beating the pins into place when lowering the load. never knew what a scissor lift was until i left home for college
ReplyDeleteI have always known it to be the widow maker because it is dangerous!!!!
ReplyDeleteHell yes, but make sure you have a bigger base plate on it.
ReplyDeleteGotta keep control of the handle when lowering as well. Let the handle go as a kid, and the handle bounced off bottom and came back like scythe. Would have crushed my thumb, if I hadn't just moved it. Life lesson learned the easy way.
ReplyDeleteDangerous as hell in the wrong hands.
ReplyDeleteHad a friend that used one to lift up a big chisel plow to take the tire off.
They found him two hours later underneath one of the teeth, no longer breathing.
Emergency use only!!!