welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I got the mole Jack HDL left I'm just trying
it out for the first time I'll get you a close-up view now we're gonna lift up the lawn tractor and
this lift is good for 500 pounds and I can't see how anybody could put a long tractor on
there way more than 500 just on the front axle so let's see how easy this lift goes up now you
have to assemble this mow Jack lift yourself a little bit it comes pretty well all assembled
except just a couple little parts very easy to assemble so let's take a look and see how easy
this thing actually lifts the lawn tractor up this is the first time trying it you're gonna
see for the first time true okay let's get to it right now just closing off the valve here on the
hydraulic cylinder now there is three presets on this and I'm just gonna show you in a second
what's going on I'm gonna move the camera and I'm gonna show you the safety features on this
so as you're jacking it up it locks itself in so I'll give you a good shot of that because
you can see how this is going up okay so let's take a look at the safety features there's one
on one side one on the other so these bars are opposite each other and you can see the
three slots I've highlighted this little bit of a pin here where this pin goes in these slots so
yeah you can hear each time it'll go into each one of the slots when it gets to the last one
that's your highest position and so let's start cranking now and you can see exactly how this goes
and I'm cranking fairly fast here and you have to make sure that your wheels are unlocked your back
axle wheel so the moves slowly you know so the the lift will actually lift up you don't want
to have your back axle wheels lock or your brakes on so if that's high enough well you know what you
can stop right there well let's go to the next one that's the second highest and when you get
to the last you just want to stop you don't want to go any further there that's it right there now
there's a lever here that you won't be able to see if I don't show you right now but you step on this
little bar and you can flip this bar up to relieve the pressure and let it come down so I'll show you
that next well before I lower it I just want to show you exactly how far the bottom of your tire
right there is 24 inches off the ground so I'm just going to give you a quick look underneath
here and see what the advantages of having one of these lips and what most people are going to use
it for well let's just take a quick look here I mean you could see how you know you're pretty high
I mean 24 inches is pretty high off the ground and if you wanted to yeah you can pretty well service
anything up here but what is the most likely item that people are going to actually service
well they're going to take their mower blades off as you can see this hasn't been used yet to cut
any grass there's the mower blades right there and it's very easy to get under here and zip them all
off or if you wanted to lower the deck I imagine it wouldn't be too hard at all to lower the deck
let it come down and take the deck off rather than taking it off on the ground and of course
you know there's a lot of things that you can service if you wanted to underneath the hood you
know instead of being so close to the ground and I think it's a terrific idea especially just when
you want to take your blades off and resharpen them and you know could you do it on the back I
believe you could do it on the back wheels - I've never tried it but yeah that's it right there and
you could see all them three notches are in there so now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to
step on this bar you got to step on this bar and it lifts them two bars on either side off their
relief point and then you can lower it down so let's lower it down and let's see how slow it
goes down and how safely goes down it says about a half a turn I'm going about 3/4 of a turn maybe
a full turn and that's it right there so you have to leave your foot on here until you go back pass
that last spot or it'll actually lock in on you if you let go but that's coming down pretty slow as
far as I'm concerned I mean actually it's coming down real slow you open this valve a bit more well
that's over a turn so yeah I guess it's metered inside here not to come down very fast so there
we go right there now that's pretty slow as far as I'm concerned to come down and you wouldn't
want it to come down any faster than that anyways would you so I think I'm pretty well safe here now
to to let it come down on its own and that's it so what do you guys think of that left I paid a
hundred fifty bucks for that over the wintertime and I'm going to get a lot of use over and I think
there she's down well what do you think for me a hundred and fifty bucks that was a no-brainer I
think it does a terrific job twenty four inches is plenty I don't even know if I got to go that
high but you know what I'm gonna try this on my ATV and I think it'll come in handy when I want
to change my oil or do any service to it as well because you know if you take a look at this here
lifting up the engine in the front all the way up high like that yeah I think it'll drain out
nice how you just undo my drain plug on the ATV that way I go and I haven't tried it on the ATV
of course just try it on this hair today and I think it's a winner so I don't know you guys let
me know what you think cuz they make various versions of this they have some that you can
use your impact driver or drill to have it come up and down this one here is hydraulic for me
it was on sale during the middle of the winter for one hundred and fifty dollars I scooped her
up real fast thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before you're
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