Jack stands

Jack stands
some just crumble under the weight
some never have the right height too short for the job to tall for the jack
Some never have the right base width, get em in place and the jack won't fit between them
some should never ever even be used
some as I lift that ratcheting height release sends the thing flying down on just enough palm skin to pinch to cut it loose or blood blister extreme
some are so heavy it takes a machine to move
some have absolutely no traction against what it's supporting flat polished and greased

remember the ones that had pins we lost
or the pins on chains
the pins and adjusting holes so mangled
using a bolt instead

I just buy more harbor freight floor jacks and use a bunch of those

jack stands
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Mine are USA and hardily constructed. They look more like I beams than round steel. Hold tons.{ but I only have two]
 
I use my bottle screw jack in pace of jack stands on many things I work with. There more the strong enough plus you can get them to where they need be be as for how tall you need them. I have short ones and tall ones. Some people also call them bell jacks because if there shape
 
I have jack stands, but prefer wood blocks. I live in timber country and can get tie blocks 7x9 and pole barn builder gave me several 6x6 and 4x6 . they never move or fail
 

I have a lot of wood cribbing that I use mostly but I often use my four TSC jack stands too. I would never crawl under anything where I was depending on that little one inch round end and 4x6 base of a bottle jack. I don't think that life would be much fun as a cripple, LOL.
 
I had two like the ones in the picture(thin sheet steel). Put one on the drivers rear side, jacked up the passenger side and watched it fold up(it seemed as it did this in slow motion) Tossed it and the other one like it in the junk. I ONLY use the sturdy ones after that. It was Camry that I was working on. I won't go anywhere near those types after that.
 
Old my friend, I think a lot of you and your advice, but I have a question. I know you like me have had hydraulic cylinders blow a seal. That littler seal is the only thing that is keeping that bottle jack from letting the load come down on you. You know I'm not the YT police, but using those worries me. Keith
 
I as a kid was taught you can never have too many jack stands.I have some like Jim showed that I gave to my son inlaws.My late father was a welder by trade and made alot of them for our farm.When we had lumber sawed we made alot of oak cut offs for the use of blocking.I have chased home a few times to get a few when visiting some who was about to raise a piece of equipment and didn't have any.Buy good ones and be safe
 
I have one I use to support my rear scraper blade while off the tractor. That is all I would use one for.
 
(quoted from post at 10:02:53 11/12/19) Old my friend, I think a lot of you and your advice, but I have a question. I know you like me have had hydraulic cylinders blow a seal. That littler seal is the only thing that is keeping that bottle jack from letting the load come down on you. You know I'm not the YT police, but using those worries me. Keith

I think he was referring to this type of jack.


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The jacks I used are not hyd jacks there a bell jack that screw up to lift the load. No way one will screw back down with a load on them with out a human making it go down. Some people also call them house jacks. There heavy and made of cast iron I think. Plus there very old. I have 5 plus of them and use them all the time
 
Very sort of like that but the ones I have make that one look like it has never been used. The ones I have are older then I am and some are ones my dad got back when I was maybe 5 or so years old. There very heavy for there size and will pretty much lift a house and they have been used to lift houses with. I have 5 plus of them and one stand about 2 foot tall closed up and 3 plus open
 
Then that is another name for them. I heard of them being called bell jacks due to there shape or house jacks since that is one thing they have been used for
 
(quoted from post at 14:23:37 11/12/19) we call those railroad jacks

Jacksun around here a Railroad jack is nothing like a screw jack. A railroad jack has a toe that sticks out to the side almost at the bottom and it is raised by operating a vertical ratcheting lever back and forth. They are a lot like an old time bumper jack but they weigh around 60 lbs.
 
What we called a Railroad Jack, was also called a Toe Jack, and they used a ratchet type of lifting.
 
mutt and jeff, i will not work under a vehicle with those stands. when i was 18 or 19 i was replacing an oil pump in a 67 pontiac catalina. you needed to jack the engine up several inches and block it, then get the car up on jack stands. loosen the oil pan, reach in and unbolt the pump and drop it in the pan, then rotate the crankshaft and walk the pan out. all went well until the stands in the front collapsed and i got crushed under the car. busted up a bunch of ribs. couple buddies were there, got the car lifted off and on to the hospital. thank the big guy i left the front wheels on. would not of survived that one.
 
I have several screw jacks that my father had when I was a kid.

Once I was called upon to fix a C60 farm truck that had been dumped on its side. The back of the cab and box didn't need bodywork, but I had to repaint the back of the cab along with the rest of the cab. The ceiling is high enough in my shop that I could raise the box all the way up. I then put a screw jack between the frame and the box on each side and screwed them until the weight of the box was off the hoist.

Even then I didn't spend a minute more than I had to working on the back of the cab, and always positioned myself so I could drop down between the frame rails in a split second.
 
(quoted from post at 20:20:31 11/12/19) I have several screw jacks that my father had when I was a kid.

Once I was called upon to fix a C60 farm truck that had been dumped on its side. The back of the cab and box didn't need bodywork, but I had to repaint the back of the cab along with the rest of the cab. The ceiling is high enough in my shop that I could raise the box all the way up. I then put a screw jack between the frame and the box on each side and screwed them until the weight of the box was off the hoist.

Even then I didn't spend a minute more than I had to working on the back of the cab, and always positioned myself so I could drop down between the frame rails in a split second.

My cousin was killed 2 years ago when a dump body dropped on him.
 
Years ago I made stands like the ones in the picture only mine are four legged. I used 2 inch thick Eighth inch walled tubing from a piece of farm equipment I had salvaged. I slit the tubing with a band saw and pressed it down over a jig that spread out the legs. Then I welded on the braces. The extension is 1 1/2" salvaged square tubing. Holes are drilled 1" apart. I probably could have bought stands for the cost of the time I have in these but I like to make my own equipment. They have stood up well but I have never used them under a ten ton tractor and I never will. For real heavy stands I took two SC Case axle housings, slid a big pipe into the middle of them the full length of the axle housing, then drilled and slid a smaller pipe for the extension inside the big pipe. The ten ton tractors sit on those stands. Oh, did I mention they are HEAVY. LOL it almost takes a stronger man then me to set them in the back of a pickup.
 

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