Praise for hilift

[sandcruiser]

I have a 60" and a 48" hilift

yesterday, the extra 12" made the difference between getting unstuck, and not getting unstuck.

you can read the writeup at Living well in Tamarindo, Costa Rica: Travel, Land Cruisers, Gardening, Food, and Jewelry

but in short: deep ditch required long hilift to lift wheel to stuff dirt/rocks below tire.

great machine. scary to me to be so close to so much weight on the end of an itty bitty steel bar, but super-useful!

all the moreso considering that the hilift lives in my dusty, wet uncovered parking are in the tropics, but after 5 months of being neglected, still worked perfectly.

 

[96r50]

...great machine. scary to me to be so close to so much weight on the end of an itty bitty steel bar, but super-useful!

I know what you mean! I just ordered a Hi-Lift and I'm already scared of it I'm glad I went with a 60" though.

Cool blog BTW!

 

[John McVicker]

Enjoyed your write up. Agree, never want to be w/o my hilift.

John

 

[arndog123]

I agree on them being scary. It makes me cringe each time I pull on the handle.

 

[toy4xfun]

you all make me laugh i grew up with bumperjacks and the hilift is way better built than the ones that used to come with cars.

 

[sandcruiser]

But did your bumper jack extend 5 ft in the air?

you all make me laugh i grew up with bumperjacks and the hilift is way better built than the ones that used to come with cars.

 

[toy4xfun]

i have had one that was pretty tall but never measured it. but my point was that the hilift is built much better than those bumperjacks that used to come with cars and trucks. and yes i have had cars jacked all the way to the top of those jacks. but that was just to get jack stands under them. and i was quite young then. also i need to add i have seen a pic of a highlift bent and then cruiser88 has one that is bent, so you do need to be careful with them.

 

[cruiser88]

They are indeed quite usefull but these news ones are not like the old ones. Like I just said in the other thread I turned one into a wishbone simply catching it on a piece of barbed wire.The wire was attached to rotten fence post that was not even in the ground.

The longer the jack the weaker it becomes

 

[cruiser88]

That was like the 4th one I have bent in my life......2 ahead of my father

i have had one that was pretty tall but never measured it. but my point was that the hilift is built much better than those bumperjacks that used to come with cars and trucks. and yes i have had cars jacked all the way to the top of those jacks. but that was just to get jack stands under them. and i was quite young then. also i need to add i have seen a pic of a highlift bent and then cruiser88 has one that is bent, so you do need to be careful with them.