I take a Hi-Lift when off-roading, mounted outside so everyone knows I'm a twunt, but the four times I've used it in the five years I've owned it, it's been invaluable. I can't afford a winch, and there's times you can only do so much with just a shovel!
Never actually used it as a Jack ... 'cept at home ..
Never actually used it as a Jack ... 'cept at home ..
jai_landrover
Well-Known Member
use mine all the time as a jack its quick to change wheels good to push your landy out of ruts and useful as a winch too Jai
david451
New Member
Sounds like it's easy jack it and push it over, I had to winch it over too heavy specially if stuck front and rear and you're slippin and slidin in the same mud, then it gets all over you and the jack, then all over the landie, then you get slapped over the finger wif the foker and jump about like a 2 year old.
Got so fokin covered in mud one day just went home, up to my arse in cow **** and ****, took about an hour to clean the mud out the waffle boards and landie.
Shifty1962
Well-Known Member
Only if you dont know what you're doing - invaluable when you do.
It's like any piece of machinery - dangerous in the wrong hands and likely to bite you given the slightest chance.
Learn how to use it safely and you'll find untold jobs for it.
Stay away from the cheap Chinese copies and go with an established brand.
Here are some links on winching and lifting with the jack.
http://www.hi-lift.com/media/pdfs/jack_instructions.pdf
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldBPnzohtI"]YouTube - Winching with the Hi-Lift Jack[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrfbR4REV-s&NR=1"]YouTube - Hi-Lift Jack Operating Instructions[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOcQHqLx90g&feature=related"]YouTube - Hi-Lift as a Winch[/ame]
Guess you need to get stuck to know what woks and dont work. We did lots of stuff in the army but was controlled.
Went green laning last week and was close to getting stuck on a rutted incline which was wet and deep. **** me up a bit...maybe my roadish tures bvut never expected it to struggle looking at the incline.
So in that situation and light stuff whats best? Waffle boards...old sacks? i had my spade and thats about it!
Please a bit of help?:doh:
Went green laning last week and was close to getting stuck on a rutted incline which was wet and deep. **** me up a bit...maybe my roadish tures bvut never expected it to struggle looking at the incline.
So in that situation and light stuff whats best? Waffle boards...old sacks? i had my spade and thats about it!
Please a bit of help?:doh:
Tig9619
Active Member
i would go nowhere without mine, very useful indeed. as mentioned get a jackall or a hi-lift, the rest i have seen are sometimes not up to the job. seen pins bend, split pins fall out etc.
Learn how to use it properly and you should be safe. Biggest problem i've come across is people using them without diff lock of chocking the wheels and they just fall over and wonder why!
Learn how to use it properly and you should be safe. Biggest problem i've come across is people using them without diff lock of chocking the wheels and they just fall over and wonder why!
woods767
Well-Known Member
Using a Hi-Lift or similar jack without the know-how is one of the best ways to crush a limb or die an humiliating death. But even when you do know what your doing, especially off road, there are no garantees.
Bottle jack for changing wheels, eletric winch or manual cable winch for winching and waffle boards with a shove for getting out of rutts. But some how i still findmyself using the hi-lift for randoms stuff, its just too dam usefull.
Bottle jack for changing wheels, eletric winch or manual cable winch for winching and waffle boards with a shove for getting out of rutts. But some how i still findmyself using the hi-lift for randoms stuff, its just too dam usefull.
Pikey
Dummy Ejection Facilitator..
I last used mine to take some tyres off some rims
very usefull piece of kit but as sean says they can bite.
Ditto, got another 19 tyres to take off and 10 to put back on. They'll all be done with highlift & tyre levers.
Only if you don't watch where you're putting you're hands.
The Golden rules are
The vehicles should left in low 1st with Diflock on, and the end that isn't getting jacked up must have both it's wheels chocked front and rear.
Once you start lifting the vehicle NEVER let go the handle and when it's lifted high enough Park the handle in the Vertical position.
Stand as far away from the Highlift as you can, and always off to one side of it. At All times keep your head out of the arc of the handle.
If it starts to slip or slew round before you want it to, then let go of the jack get the fook out off the way. They can also self operate. I:E the handle will crank up and down while the vehicle lowers itself back to ground, and they do it at an amazing rate. It is usually this that caues most of the injuries.
I have used an highlift on numerous occasion for everything from winching a transit tipper body on to the back of another Transit, to turning my 90TD 180 degrees on my driveway. lifting a 110 out of ruts. changing tyres etc etc. I've never heard of anyone been killed or seriously injured using one. Though a few people I know have suffered wrist or facial injuries after been hit by a loose handle.
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