[AT] Neat jack idea

[Cecil Bearden]

If you still have one with the wooden handle, then it is the best made 
one, old enough to be built!  I have used them for many years, now I use 
a forklift or have a winch truck handy.  I bought 15 of them many years 
ago that the State Wildlife dept had used in their game warden trucks. 
We rebuilt a bunch of them.  If you wrapped the Jack in an oily burlap 
sack and then with a plastic bag, it would work fine.  In a pinch you 
can pee on the spring mechanism and it will work. I never worried about 
lowering anything, because as soon as it went down 3 slots, it fell. 
Usually just backed or drove off of it.
Baxter Black did a great routine on one of them years ago.  It was so 
true and so funny at the time I almost fell out of the seat laughing.

Cecil in OKla

hank at millerfarm.com wrote:
> There are two safe ways to use any jack of any type.  The first is to  
> know all possible ways the load could fall, and then physically place  
> everyone (humans, cats, dogs, cows, ...) outside of that range.   The  
> other, more practical way is to have good stable jack stands underthe  
> load.   If the load will go very high you may have to jack up a  
> little, put the stand in place, jack some more, add a second stand,  
> then jack, then adjust the first stand, until you get things high  
> enough.
> 
> Your cribbing is fine for when the jack itself fails to hold the load,  
> but the jack can tip.   Your stands have a base that will not tip  
> (Make sure your stands really are stable.   A log can be a good stand,  
> or it could be a bad one)
> 
> If I never again lose a friend because the jack supporting his  
> car/whatever fell over it will be all right with me.
> 
> Jacks are for lifting, use solid stands once the load is lifted.    
> This goes for any jack, not just the hi-lift type.
> 
> The bottom line is think safety.  So use your brain.
> 
> Quoting charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>:
> 
>> I think the safe way to use those jacks (if the situation will allow) is to
>> have some cribing on hand.  Jack the load up 4 inches or so, insert a piece
>> of cribbing (cribing sp ?), go another 4 inches add another piece, etc.
>> That way if the jacks decides to auto-rachet down or turn over the load
>> can't fall very far.  Of course most of the time you would need it when
>> there was no cribing to be found.
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