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Awesome. Try doing that with a bottle jack! I love seeing pictures of people being creative with their off-road equipment. It would be interesting to see what other things people have done with their Hi Lift Jacks. Thanks for the photo and ideas.

I always wondered what the flying rubber would do to a windshield at high speed. Now I know. That's a bit of a worry! I am an eye surgeon, and the thought of flying glass fragments and glass "dust" in the eyes doesn't sound like fun. I have picked lots of foreign bodies out of other people's...

What you are saying about stability is true. My experience with Hi Lift Jacks is different from that of many other people because most of my off-road driving was in sand where the vehicle sinks down in the sand when you stop the truck. We still chocked the wheels to make sure the truck could...

When you are bogged down like this in sand, it's time to get out the sand ladders if you are alone. If you are with other vehicles, you can use sand ladders, snatch strap, or winch. The problem with the snatch strap and winch is that you may be in a sea of soft sand, and the rescue vehicle...

Stable is a relative term. If you use them in an unsafe manner, then the word stable does not apply. It is all about risk management and not doing stupid things. It is my habit to built 100 ton bridges and then drive 50 ton vehicles over them. You need a margin of safety and situational...

I spent ten years driving in the sand dunes of Arabia, and I have used the one inch angle iron sand ladders hundreds of times on our expeditions without them ever bending, These are not bridging ladders, They are sand ladders. If you made them out of aluminum or smaller angle iron, it could be...

Sand ladders can be a major expense when you are outfitting an expeditionary vehicle. Some sand ladders make excellent posing gear and are real overland bling. As soon as you mount expensive sand ladders on your truck, you achieve the status of explorer and world traveler, or so it would...

Picture from the Hi Lift web site that gives you the basic idea of spreading capability with the Winch-Clamp-Spreader attachment. You could open hoods, trunks, gates, doors etc with the spreader attachment. http://hi-lift.com/hi-lift-jacks/x-treme.html

I thought it might be the newest and latest Defender Concept 100 prototype from TATA. It lacks some of the flashy appeal of the other prototypes, but you can never tell where Land Rover is going with the Defender.

Every time I fit out a Land Rover for expeditionary travel, I always have to decide whether or not I will get a Hi Lift Jack for the truck. Usually the answer is yes. Here is why. I didn't know about Hi Lift Jacks until I got my first Land Rover 110 in Saudi Arabia. Hi Lift Jacks were...

Today I saw a patient who almost had his arm blown off by an exploding tire. The bones were shattered, and the soft tissue was the only thing holding the arm to the rest of his body. He also is blind in one eye and deaf in one ear two weeks after the injury. Surgeons reattached the nearly...

It sounds like nobody is at the helm at Land Rover. It reminds me of the out of control gyrations of a an untended firehose attached to a fire hydrant. Makes me wonder about the upper level of management and whether they have a strategic plan. Very strange noises coming out of Land Rover.

The Offender ranks high on my list of names for this vehicle!

Awesome chart. Thanks. Call the new vehicle anything but a Defender, and I will be happy. The same thing happened when they took the name Hummer from the H1, and they called the H2 and H3 Hummers as well. The H2 and H3 are capable vehicles, but calling them Hummers was a marketing trick that...

You make a good point. I considered the tuffy box as a deterrent to the opportunist rather than to the dedicated thief. Witn battery powered angle grinders, you can get into just about anything if you are brazen enough.

We went to a talk about rattlesnake bites here in Arizona, and they said that the average cost of treatment for a snake bite with the helicopter ride included was around $60,000. It's a lot cheaper to wear tall boots, jeans, and be careful on the trail than it is to go through the treatment...

I enjoyed the video. You did a good job holding the camera level with your hand, which is not an easy thing to accomplish. Southern Utah is amazing. Nice rig for the trip. The sandstone photos in the slick rock areas are great!

I don't know of a safe way to mount external jerry cans without decreasing approach and departure angle. I have used Long Ranger fuel tanks on two of my Defenders, and they were very good. I also carried 5 jerry cans inside the Defender in a plywood box to the exact dimensions of the jerry...

Nice rig. I would like to see more pictures of the interior modifications.

I have been in Arizona for nearly five years, and I have only seen one rattlesnake in the wild so far. I lived in Arabia for sixteen years, and in those years I saw only 2 pit vipers, 1 cobra, and one unknown black snake slithering rapidly away from our camp site. I sailed around the world on...