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SE Nebraska, Near Misery and Cans Ass! | Guess we better get prepared to do tire service ourselves or at least pull them and take to town. What's best for lifting? Air bags? hydraulic jacks and cribing? |
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NW central North Dakota | I like those ‘ pop can’ jacks for lifting but gotta also crib to stay safe, ground can settle and loads shift and fall easy, careful and good luck
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Central ND | Lots of heavy blocks and air over hydraulic Jack's here |
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WC MN & Valley of the Sun, AZ | To much experience with axial flow final drives says a stone boat makes a good base no matter the lifting device.
Unless of course one is in the land of no rocks and stone boats aren't part of the repertoire. |
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Galahad, Alberta | We have a big wooden pad like picker trucks put under their outriggers that we start with and then 6x6 blocks for cribbing and air over hyd bottle jacks so you aren’t trying to pump the jack while being under what you’re lifting.
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Glasgow, Ky | Same here. Air over hyd jacks make the job much easier, faster and safer as was pointed out by another poster. First time my son brought home an air over hyd jack I thought that was money wasted. After using it I realized how wrong I was. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks. |
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Eastern Washington State | Air powered hydraulic jack and lots of cribbing.
Just a reminder to never trust a jack. Neighbor of mine was having Les Schwab change a tire on his combine this year. As they were cribbing under the axle the hydraulic jack (Les Schwab’s) failed catastrophically. The tire guy, my neighbor, and his grandson were all under the combine to some degree at the time. No one was seriously hurt thank God, but they had only put the last block of cribbing in seconds before. It was a pucker factor 10 situation. |
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chortitz, manitoba | Built 2x2ft laminated and glued chock blocks for unhooking loaded grain trailer. We use them as a base blocks. |
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Faunsdale, AL | If you ever get a shot at some treated old bridge timbers, grab some. They last forever and a few minutes with a chainsaw will yield a selection of pieces you can use to jack up anything and crib it up securely.
Last old bridge the county took out near us, the track hoe operator reduced the timbers to splinters. It was a waste, but we had a pile out back already from an earlier removal by a much more careful operator.
I can think of one combine tire blowout that proved the old adage of “if it can happen it will“. It was not only in very soft ground, it was loaded and at the time we had nothing that would reach it to unload into. That thing took some blocks and cribbing! Thank goodness it was only a 4420 Deere. |
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SW Ohio | X 15 on an air jack, actually at least two of them, so you can lift in multiple stages, and the best ones have screw extension so you don't waste any motion. Be prepared to jack some wood in the ground, never to be seen again........
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NC KS | Plus a can of WD40 |
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| shivers876 - 9/14/2021 14:43
Plus a can of WD40
Wd40 is old school no body uses that anymore(joking).
Air over hydraulic is the best.
Although I always enjoyed the automatic down action in those handyman jacks.
Truck shops use air over hydraulic.
Edit: tried to find when the air over hydraulic was invented. The hydraulic jack 1851
Edited by Steigermorepower 9/14/2021 15:19
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Buffalo IL | 3/8 inch square steel plate as big as you can carry. You won't push that one down the ground like you do 6x6 blocks.
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| Like most everything. If you do not have a solid base. Nothing can make up for it. Soft ground, needs larger footprint. As said I got some bridge planking. @4” thick by 14” wide. I got a @40” long piece. HEAVY. Hook a lite chain to it. (So 3 point on tractor can retrieve it)
That’s my base. It’s worth driving to get it. Do NOT let tire guy drive off with it after he pulls it out with his truck crane. |
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WCIN | Use these for a good base. They will hold you up even on really soupy ground.
https://startsafety.com/alturnamat-ground-protection-mat?language=en...(F1)+Shop&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_cam=847037755&hsa_grp=44768403793&hsa_ad=198936936231&hsa_ver=3&hsa_src=g&hsa_acc=2053472240&hsa_kw=&hsa_tgt=pla-297036191240&hsa_mt=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuNr0pbD_8gIVi43ICh3DpQQMEAQYASABEgLSfPD_BwE
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| you use a handy man jack make out your will first. Go to a truck wrecking yard and get an aluminum frame at least 3-4' and ditto on the air over hydraulic |
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Fletcher, OH | 2- 20 ton air bottle jacks. Other smaller blocks as needed.
Had to raise a 965C Challenger with a flat LSW single on soft ground. |
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NE mt | I used to have a chunk of that military landing mat that sure came in handy, havent seen it in years, would sure like to find some more, seemed tough and light, and of course plenty of wood blocks, but that landing mat first sure did the trick. |
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | Can't remember where I saw it, but to "carry and lug around" 6x6s or 4x6s , for cribbing.
I've attached barn door handles to 6x6s, on one end; and to spaced the handle a little higher; I used a stack of fender washers, so wearing leather gloves (or Winter gloves) can easily grab the handle.
For 4x6s; a "screen door handle" fits better (narrower than a barn door handle) , on one end. (= still need a stack of fender washers, between block and handle = and need longer screws ,also. )
It is so much easier to carry, these blocks, and even swing then into the back of the pickup truck, too. (more like carrying two 5 gallon buckets = one block on each side of your body.
Yes, we start with bridge planks, first; then add cribbing.
For my small combine, for an added layer of safety, I've thrown down another bridge plank and threw a 12 ton jack stand, on it, and clicked it higher, has I went up, too. {Combine was not on level ground, during failure} Plus cribbing , also.
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Westport, IN | We have a 4'*3' and if it's soft, that's the base to get. |
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NE of Des Moines | 4WD - 9/14/2021 18:27
Can't remember where I saw it, but to "carry and lug around" 6x6s or 4x6s , for cribbing.
I've attached barn door handles to 6x6s, on one end; and to spaced the handle a little higher; I used a stack of fender washers, so leather gloves (or Winter gloves) can easily grab the handle.
For 4x6s; a "screen door handle" fits better (narrower than a barn door handle) , on one end. (= still need a stack of fender washers, between block and handle = and need longer screws ,also. )
It is so much easier to carry, these blocks, and even swing then into the back of the pickup truck, too. (more like carrying two 5 gallon buckets = one block on each side of your body.
Yes, we start with bridge planks, first; then add cribbing.
For my small combine, for an added layer of safety, I've thrown down another bridge plank and threw a 12 ton jack stand, on it, and clicked it higher, has I went up, too. {Combine was not on level ground, during failure} Plus cribbing , also.
Your handle ideas are great!
I always seem to have a 2" tie down strap that has a ragged spot, I use probably 2' out of it along with some fender washers, and some construction screws, to make a handle. I attach the handles to the side of the blocks. Easy to make and handy :) |
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West Union IA | Them da## thinks belong on the iron pile. |
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | Now that you mentioned, straps;
I've seen tow trucks, with blocks that had just a "loop of strapping", held on by one fender washer and one big wood screw or lag bolt. |
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Huntley Montana | Back a big MFWD up throw a BIG chain under the rim, make a loop, throw the chain across the middle hook of the quick hitch, lift the 3 point, Then Crib away |
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Auxvasse, MO | I cut a block out of a hedge tree that is 6 inches thick 14 wide ,and 18 inches long in doesn’t sink much. |
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Pilot Grove, Missouri | I have a couple pieces of 1/4" steel plate 3'x4' that I use for a base. Jack with an air over hyd jack and have a large assortment of 4x6 and 6x6 blocks for cribbing. Patrick |
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west central Iowa | The best thing to get a broad base under the jack is an old disk blade with the center broken out or cut out. 22" or bigger blade spreads the load out and they don't sink in much. I have a 22" blade that caught a stump along a creek and broke out the center to a hole about the same size as the smaller dimension as the base of my biggest hydraulic jack. I welded a light chain to it for a handle and it almost always gets used when we have to jack up something on soft dirt. Couple tire truck guys made their own after using mine. |
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Central ND | At some point I'm going to get some 3/4th or 1" plate to shove under the bottle jack when lifting stuff out in the fields.(doesn't take up much room under the jack and should not break.)The rest is blocks. I have some large I beams to set under tall axles.
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Georgia | Ive got some of those as well. Work really good |
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | A few other simple items, I've made, for jacking heavy loads.
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