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reelapeelin
08-07-2011, 01:55 PM
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/reelapeelin/DSCN0995.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/reelapeelin/DSCN0996.jpg

Somebody gave me this thing long ago (last Ice Age, CB...LOL)...needed a way to lower the stern cuz last night's storm dumped a bunch of water into the boat for the 1st time since it's been here...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/reelapeelin/DSCN1001.jpg

Stuck it under the drain-hole(had a piece of 4x4 in there when lifting)...up she went...pulled out a few blocks and down she went...voila!!...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/reelapeelin/DSCN0998.jpg

The transom is only about 4' from the storage-room wall and I felt a little spider web while back there...turned around and starin' this guy in the eye...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/reelapeelin/DSCN1000.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/reelapeelin/DSCN1002.jpg

There's another little bigger one on the outside of the back porch, but I didn't have the camera when I saw him...he was writing some name...looked like V-20 something something...couldn't make it all out...
willy
08-07-2011, 04:03 PM
Oh yea, that puppy has designs on your old arse, wait till u see how fast they can move, oh yea did you know they can jump about four feet.
Ask me how I know.
Oh and the jack stand you show comes in dozens of versions, with different angles and holding plate sizes depending on the need.
chumbucket
08-07-2011, 05:20 PM
Hi Lift car jacks. They don't make them like that anymore. I also have one. Mine came from an archeology dig somewhere around Spartanburg SC. clutched in the hands of an undocumented fossil that looked like this;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/bospa/DSCN0982.jpg












:nut::hi:
Hedge
08-07-2011, 05:24 PM
I was going to guess maybe something Noah used with the ark, but I like CB's response better.
willy
08-07-2011, 05:32 PM
that's scary man
chumbucket
08-07-2011, 05:36 PM
that's scary man

My grandson just thanked me for ruining his nights sleep later on.
willy
08-07-2011, 06:58 PM
the h@ll with your Grandson, I had to sleep in the same hotel room with that and another creature unearthed in NC for three nights.
The nightmares, I'll tell you it ain't pretty.
reelapeelin
08-07-2011, 07:03 PM
the h@ll with your Grandson, I had to sleep in the same hotel room with that and another creature unearthed in NC for three nights.
The nightmares, I'll tell you it ain't pretty.


Now yer hittin' around why CB didn't show up...he was afraid he'd wind up in the same room as us!!...LOL!!...:sleep:...personally I slept like a baby...crapped my drawers all night long...:booty:

CB...I can't believe you got one of these jacks...too much coincidence...this thing is a working antique!!...kinda like Willy now I think of it!!...
chumbucket
08-07-2011, 07:34 PM
All joking aside, I do have one. :beer:
reelapeelin
08-07-2011, 09:01 PM
All joking aside, I do have one. :beer:


Do you remember where you got yours...someone gave me this one...just can't recall who it was...I was thinkin' it's pretty old...
SkunkBoat
08-08-2011, 10:15 AM
I remember dad had one of those jacks...in 1974!
reelapeelin
08-08-2011, 01:20 PM
I remember dad had one of those jacks...in 1974!


You poor baby...I graduated high school...in 1970...LOL!!

When I said I thought these jacks are old...I meant OLD, like from the 20s or 30s...

Hey Skiunk...I guess OLD is a relative term...LOL!!...:news:
ssiredfish
08-08-2011, 01:36 PM
Do you remember where you got yours...someone gave me this one...just can't recall who it was...I was thinkin' it's pretty old...

Henry Ford maybe??????????
Hedge
08-08-2011, 01:54 PM
Henry Ford maybe??????????
now that's some funny $hit
:haha:
Destroyer
08-08-2011, 01:55 PM
My dad had one... I think it's still in his basement under some newer stuff from 1548 or thereabouts. I actually had one that I got from a junkyard long ago when I had my first car (58 Dodge Coronet). They were great for lifting cars that had those massive steel bumpers that could support a car like that.

Now I use a Farm Jack that I got back in the 70's (when I used to go 4 wheeling in Double Trouble and Bass River State Parks) for when I need to do stuff like lifting a boat like that. Thanks for the memories Reel. :clap:
chumbucket
08-08-2011, 02:13 PM
Mine came from my Granddad. He passed it on to my Dad and now I have had it for the last 20 years or so. It's like a family heirloom (yeah, we can be a little redneck up her too).
I doubt you'll find one new like that. As Destroyer mentioned, the cars back then had the big steel bumpers that you could lift the whole vehicle with.
The closest you'll find now are the 4X4 Offroad guys have those high lift jacks for their trucks.
Like these;

http://www.hi-lift.com/index.html
SkunkBoat
08-08-2011, 03:10 PM
Ours came with the Rambler I think
Destroyer
08-08-2011, 03:55 PM
The closest you'll find now are the 4X4 Offroad guys have those high lift jacks for their trucks.
Like these;

http://www.hi-lift.com/index.html

Exactly.. That's what I call a farm jack. Before they became part of any serious 4 wheelers equipment they were used on farms to stretch fence between posts, jack up tractors, etc, etc, etc.

BTW if anyone wants one, (farm jack) you can buy a good quality one at Harbor Freight for a lot less than most places.

http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=farm+jack
willy
08-08-2011, 04:07 PM
http://www.hi-lift.com/index.html

That hi lift is what goes with me on every hunting trip
Have had it for 20 years at least