[AT] Neat jack idea

[Len Rugen]

My old Hi-Lift had a cotter pin to lock the handle in place.  My newer one 
had a spring clip that fell out.  I'm not sure which is better, sometimes 
you need the handle out and the cotter pin is a pain, sometimes you need the 
handle locked in.

I had to order an overhaul kit plus extra's on my old one.  The lower end of 
the cast slider with the triangles that works the dogs broke off, probably 
when one of the boys lifted a stuck tractor.  I suspect that was a severe 
overload, as they also bent my trailer ramps during the event.  Sometimes 
it's better that Dad's don't know the entire story.

When I was a kid, we had some hydralic bumper jacks.  They were very 
spindly, we used one on the hitch of an old hay rake.  It got lost in a hay 
field and Dad tried to bale it in the roto-baler.  I remember the bent up 
jack and a grease spot on the belts.