rayra
Expedition Leader
You're reminding me of that poor b@stard out around Pahrump that got killed / crushed by his Jeep by the China Lake earthquake last year.
/except I think he was using cinder blocks and not Harbor Freight jackstands. .
Harbor Freight Jack Stands Recalled for Risk of Collapsing
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/except I think he was using cinder blocks and not Harbor Freight jackstands. .
trailscape
Explorer
Esco jack stands. Been pretty happy with these. Pro Eagle jack. Good combination.
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Victory_Overland
Explorer
Those Esco's are nice; do they have changeable pads with cupped style for axles too? I do not always go the frame for some jobs and like to jack and support the control arms for some tasks and like the grip of the cup style over the frame pad top like you have.
Than Eage jack looks dope too!
Than Eage jack looks dope too!
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krick3tt
Adventurer
Yes I have used jack stands but I back them up with huge 6x6 and 8x8 blocks of wood that I keep around for just that purpose. Years ago a good friend (my doctor) was crushed by a vehicle that he was working under with no back up and the stands failed. Every time I get under a vehicle I think of him.
dreadlocks
Well-known member
Ayup, if I'm up on jackstands, at least one wheel is off.. and that wheel is shoved under the subframe as a redundancy if a jack stand were to fail.. I figure its bigger than my head, and cant really be tipped over if the vehicle is moving a couple feet in some random direction after a stand failure.
quickfarms
Adventurer
This is what I use
trailscape
Explorer
Yep, I ordered a separate set of axle top posts to use with the stands.
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Took mine back, I plan on buying a set of Esco's to replace them with. I'll probably build some cribbing with 2x4s as well, we'll see. I've always used a wheel and the jack as backups, I figured if the jack stand collapses and the jack also breaks, at least the wheel underneath might save me long enough for the fire department to arrive. I did have a HF jack stand collapse when I was lowering a car onto it, which is when I stopped using them. They sat in storage until the recall came.
Some things at Harbor Freight are good. I like the ratchets and sockets I have from them, and the Apache cases. Love my Daytona jack, but that's so close to the Snap On (same manufacturer) that Snap On even sued over it (they lost).
Some things at Harbor Freight are good. I like the ratchets and sockets I have from them, and the Apache cases. Love my Daytona jack, but that's so close to the Snap On (same manufacturer) that Snap On even sued over it (they lost).
DCH109
Adventurer
Mine never failed me, not once. and I replaced both front and rear axles on my FJ60.
That said, while they were the main ones on the frame I had a second set sitting as backups (not HF models).
They were returned this weekend for a gift card (planning on buying some little toy for my kids). Never a good thing when a company does a mass recall on a Jackstand.
I had (naively, perhaps) made the assumption that they were smart enough not to cheap out too much on something as lawsuit worthy as a jack stand. Nobody cares when their 99 cent flashlight breaks, or their chinesium drill bit untwists if it's cheap enough, but jack stands kill people if they're not strong. I did the same with a gift card, but I got myself a random assortment of things to go with my new grinders, and some other stuff for projects I'm working on.