Realistically...how often do you use your hi-lift?

[1stDeuce]

People use guns dangerously too, but most of us understand that the gun isn't the problem...

To comment on the original topic, I used my hi-lift a LOT when I was in college and didn't have a winch, or lockers, or even decent tires on my truck... Just two sturdy bumpers, and some chain and straps got me out of a lot of situations! Even had a custom built piece of chain for chaining the axle up so I could more easily use the hi-lift to change a tire. Never any injuries to me or the truck from using the hi-lift, as I am evidently equipped with un-common sense.

After I got a winch and than a Jeep, I pretty much stopped carrying it, but I use it around the shop to break down tires a lot. And occasionally I jack something up with it too.

If you have two good bumpers, a Hi-lift can save you a lot of frustration, and sometimes help you though something that wouldn't be possible to winch through. (Rocks snagging undercarriage come to mind as a good time for the hi-lift.)

I'm not going to get rid of mine any time soon, even if I don't often take it on the trail with me.
Chris

 

[teotwaki]

Snippy retort away - doesn't change the fact that a Hi-Lift is both a serious and a dangerous tool that few rarely learn how to use properly. The evidence is in this thread - photo after photo of dangerous practices. It's the same as people who hang around next to a loaded winch line, or recover a vehicle from a trailer ball. Average redneck behavior.

In the director's cut of the movie Deliverance I am pretty sure that Burt Reynolds tricked the local rednecks into using a Hi-Lift so as they'd a killed themselves. That was chopped from the movie in favor of him using the bow an' error to dispatch the surly rednecks. :ylsmoke:

 

[southpier]

they had to leave it in the truck on accountta it make the canoe hard to paddle too.

but that video makes a good argument to have one aboard and get some training & accessories for it.

 

[MOguy]

I have had to use my hi-lift more times than my spare tire. I am not leaving either one of the them behind.

 

[teotwaki]

they had to leave it in the truck on accountta it make the canoe hard to paddle too.

but that video makes a good argument to have one aboard and get some training & accessories for it.

The Hi-Lift could serve nicely as an anchor for the canoe! :elkgrin:

Anyhow, if someone can invent something better that the Hi-Lift I am sure that it would sell quite well

 

[CountryHandyMan]

Wow, this escalated quickly. I love the versatility of the Hi-lift jack and as long as you're smarter than it is you'll be fine. In the 20ish years I've owned one I've changed tires, rescued trucks & Jeeps, pulled fence posts & stumps, moved barns, jacked houses and once rescued a horse. Is it the first tool I grab when I get stuck-no. Would I leave home without it-no. It's no more dangerous than a tow strap, winch line, axe or shot gun in the hands intelligent operators.

 

[zelatore]

Rescued a horse you say?
Yup. Gonna need you to elaborate on that one.

 

[CountryHandyMan]

Horse slipped on the ice and landed completely upside down in a watering trough. She was stuck in it untill I used my Hi-lift to roll tank onto it's side, freeing the horse.

 

[91AzXJ]

Handy when you need it like others have said. I used it last weekend to get my stuck backwash valve out of the pipe on my pool pump. Would not have been able to do without it. I have also pulled out bush roots with mine. Oh ya, have used it to change a tire, slide my *** end over and just to lift the body a bit. By the way, I had always thought that this forum was above all the BS that is now going on in this thread!

 

[Mighty Dodge Ram]

Never...and I hope it stays that way. But like the AX card...I never leave home without it. :sombrero: