From: clare@snyder.on.ca
On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 17:24:09 -0500, Snag wrote:
>On 8/8/2025 4:45 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Farm Jack, Off Road Jack, Wagon Jack, (The Kleenex name is Hi-Lift Jack).
>>
>> Lots of people make them with the most famous being Hi-Lift, the most
>> common probably being Harbor Freight, and the crappiest probably being
>> Reese. Most of us know what they are, and those of us who have one (or
>> more) have probably used them for some pretty sketchy stuff.
>>
>> I was using one yesterday to lift up a big heavy steel work bench to
>> slide a furniture dolly under two of the legs, and I thought it would
>> sure be handy if somebody welded a hook or a ring on the two cross pins
>> to make it easier to pull out the pin that should click out on its own
>> but doesn't because the jack is dirty, stained, and grungy from the last
>> job and rarely gets maintained. On my last truck I used to keep a can
>> of silicone dry lube in the tool box just to spray down the action of
>> the jack when I needed it.
>>
>> Now I am sure somebody would get pinched putting their finger near the
>> mechanism, and some real genius would find away to pull the p[in out
>> that's supporting the lad and kill somebody, but it sure would be handy
>> if there was a hook of a ring welded to those two cross pins so I
>> wouldn't have to stop mid job with me keeping the load from falling by
>> pushing with my knee and go find some cleaner and some lube for the jack.
>>
>>
>
> We called them HandyMan Jacks where I grew up . But then where I grew
>up it was "Yippee-I-O-Ki-Yay too so go figure .
J.C.Hallman Manufacturing here inWaterloo County (Kitchener)Ontario
built a highlift jack and sold it under the "JackAll" brand. I think
Harrah Manufacturing in Bloomdield Ill had the original genuine
"HandyMan"
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