I fitted rock sliders with holes to fit the farm jack, it gave me 4 more jacking points. And made it a lot easier to change tyres. I've used it three times on the 110, several times leveling the mobile home, and a few times round the garden for moving things. I've found no difficulty using it, just take my time and think about what i'm doing.

Good idea that ...
 
First Jack I used was a scissor jack, they were bad enough if you weren't careful. My mate's exhaust dropped off his mk4 cortina and he jacked it up with a scissor jack. He was a fat bastard and couldn't fit under so I went under for him. Whilst I was trying to hook the exhaust back on its bracket the jack started tilting, I just managed to roll out from underneath in the nick of time. Never used a scissor jack since. Bottle jacks and basic trolley jacks are cheap enough now that it's worth having two.

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I fitted rock sliders with holes to fit the farm jack, it gave me 4 more jacking points. And made it a lot easier to change tyres. I've used it three times on the 110, several times leveling the mobile home, and a few times round the garden for moving things. I've found no difficulty using it, just take my time and think about what i'm doing.

That’s quite a good idea. May do that when I fit my rock sliders back on.
 
Bought a high lift jack 6 years ago when I took the landy abroad and thought I was going to be the next Tom Sheppard or something.

Never used it until I changed a tire with it yesterday (my dads got my trolley jack).

They are ****ing mental. You’re really limited on where you can jack, do it at the front or back and it’s so unstable the whole car might just slip off and kill you. There’s limited places on the side and it still feels like it’s going to slip off and kill you. It’s got a spiked lifting arm which has dented my nice new galv chassis and god forbid you let go of the jacking arm when lowering or it’ll smash any body part that gets in the way and probably kill you.

Not a fan
They are no supposed to be used for changing tures and are very dangeous used in such a way.. they are a recovery device and a very good one.
 
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They are no supposed to be used for changing tures and are very dangeous used in such a way.. they are a recovery device and a very good one.

They’re designed to lift or pull a load. There’s no way you you’ll convince me doing that in an unstable recovery situation is somehow safer than on a flat concrete surface with axel stands and wheel chocks.
 
Main problem is that they became seen as a 'must have' bit of bling to hang off a landy to make others think it's being used as a rufty tufty offroader.
Consequently people bought them, never bothered reading the instructions/getting a bit of instruction or practicing with the result that the first time it's used in anger it all goes horribly wrong.
For wheel changing you're much better off with a cheap trolley jack, an axle stand & a bit of ply - the last being to stop the jack sinking into soft ground. I carry one of the small Machine Mart under £20 ones in the RRC & not had any problems.
 
Never bothered with one, seen it go wrong too many times, they are a tool but not of the automotive jacking kind.
 
They are ready to chop bits off, drop things on you or crush/smash bit you didn' move outta the way fast enough at a moment's notice. They can also do the random stuff here:


Interesting vid. Slightly modified foot and top clevis on the jack.
It certainly made me jump when the handle snapped up in use, I never used it again without clipping the handle back onto the rack.
I have got one of these bumper lifts, seen here in use. I don't use it for any of these things, I actually use it for lifting boat engines to change drive plates or engine mounts.

 
Are Hi-Lift Jacks dangerous. What else would you call a device capable of lifting your vehicle 3' vertically and enabling you to tip it over to get your vehicle over to get it out of deep ruts? Try getting under your car to jack on an axle when the axles are resting in mud. So, Jack alls, Dangerous? Sh.t yes but thank god the lawyers haven't outlawed them.
 
I bought one around the time I bought the Land Rover. It is much more use as a gardening tool than as something to maintain the Land Rover. It is good for getting tree stumps out, for raising trees that have blown over so you can prop them up again, for getting fence posts out of the ground, lifting gates into position so you can fix the hinges, lifting shrubs or clumps of perennials and a few other things I've probably forgotten.
 
I have used a farm jack to get off a tree stump wedged under the truck, ( not me driving, honest )
ground was a bit soft and was able to get enough height to free us.
But i always make sure i got and escape route when using it !
 

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