Just one more item to add to the list......Post 32926

are you trying to challenge Roachie for the heaviest truck in the country? He is having a battle with road train owners at the moment for the trophy...

Well Willem, had same thoughts about hi-lift jacks
and mine is consigned to the back of the shed with
1 or 2 handwinches and the odd air-bag jack , while
these days I rely on low tyre pressures , diff locks
electric winch and best of all chains.

However I did have a geniune use once in which we saw no
way out but to use highlift jack as a winch, so maybe its
worth carrying after all.

Picture this scene , going downhill diagonally
across a steep lightly treed slope on a narrow
track that was once a 2wd road.
The track had a seriously steep drop off to one side
and a deep drain on the embankment side. So this cruiser
following me slid sideways into the drain on a slick
clay surface.

Could get out, but he could move the car up/down the drain a few
meters but couldn't lift inside wheels out of slippery rut.

It couldn't get enough traction/ angle to extract it with
snatch strap, and while vehicle had a winch there was
nowhere to attach it such that it would pull sideways.

On the drop of side of the track was a small tree about
6" diameter. But couldn't get car into such a position as to
pull on it from winch because of logs etc in drain at front
of car.

Thought about it over a couple of cups of coffee and out came
the never before used Hi-lift.

We attached the chassis at rear wheel and the other end at
right angles across the track to the tree.
This was easier said than done, as while tree was only 2
meters away we had to climb down the bank and then about
4 meters up the tree to arrive at point on the tree just
2m from the bank.

With bits of chain at each end the hi-lift was in the air
and very hard to work. As we operated it the tree bent in
and we got maybe 3-400mm of effective movement.

In two operations we pulled the back of the car 600mm, just
out of the rut sufficent such that with both its diff locks
engaged it could do the rest for itself.

Robin Miller

WILEM, WHY NOT USE AN AIRLIFT JACK AS OPPOSED TO A HIGH LIFT JACK? tHE FORMER ARE MORE VERSATILE AND LIGHTER TO CARRY.

CHEERS,
FRANK.

Cue the Twilight Zone music................well bugger me if I didn't take my high lift jack off the Kaymar about 2 hours ago to its new home in the shed after deeming it 'surplus to requirements'. I kid you not! Thought long and hard about it too.

I'm a big fan of the Hi-Lift, but on my 105 Cruiser it only gets the tyre off the ground on literally the last click. Just too dodgy for my liking on these new fangled coil sprung Toyotas with all their articulation and carrying a foot square block of wood is not really an option.. On the other hand the old 75's with leaf springs were just a 'few clicks and it's clear' affair. Horses for courses.

A good mechanical bottle jack, a thick bread board to spread the load, a tarp (so I don't get too grubby) and a long winder that reaches well out from under the vehicle for me nowadays.

My trailer is a tandem, so driving on to a rock with the 'good one' works nicely to get a wheel in the air when required. No shortage of them around the place.

Hehehehe..............I think I'm responsible for that extra 10kgs :-)))) But are you leaving the trolley jack, bottle jack, hand winch and the bead breaker behind now???