From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 8/9/2025 3:48 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:   
   > 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"   
   >   
      
      I just know that every farmer out there where I grew up had one or   
   more of them . They were great for stretching "bobwar" . And getting   
   trucks and tractors out of the mudhole you just pulled a cow out of .   
   --   
   Snag   
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