G'day guys the high lift Jack just how dangerous are these things?
Yep, they're fair dinkum dangerous, and I'm going to show you how to use one safely. Let's get into it
So I can't stress highly enough about just how dangerous a High Lift Jack is
But before you start using one of these and start lifting your four wheel drive off the ground
Firstly make sure your four wheel drive is secure so put a chock behind the tyres at the opposite end of your four wheel drive
It's not going to be lifted off the ground and then inside if you've got a manual transmission
Make sure it's in gear and if you've got an automatic
Make sure that's in park and put that handbrake on
Now to use one of these you gotta need solid mounting points to be able to Jack your four wheel drive off the ground now
I've got all bases covered on my Patrol
I got front and rear steel bars, and I've also got steel rock sliders on both sides my four wheel drive here
So I've got all bases covered right around my vehicle
You can't use one of these if you've only got plastic bumpers
But make sure when you are using a High Lift Jack that you get some sort of a solid base plate that goes underneath of
the foot of the jack when you lift your four wheel drive off the ground because if you don't, you know,
There's a fair chance depending what sort of ground that you're jacking up on
The the weight of your four wheel drive could end up pushing the jack down on the ground and that becomes extremely dangerous
So this is just a timber plate that I've got here
Just keeping the back of me four wheel drive here whenever I've got to use it so my bull bars
Got a couple of slots here both on both sides of the bull bar at the front here and there designed on for the tongue
Of the jack to be able to slide into those so I can lift up whichever corner I want. So to start doing that
you've got to engage this lever down the bottom here
you've got to click that up into the upright position and that's going to then enable me to be able
to lift the jacking mechanism up in a place where I need that to be
Line up in one of those holes
Get it into there and then that's the first stage
They're ready to roll and then just steady the top of the jack there with you with your hand
Just until it takes up some weight
Righto. Now the jack is safe, it can't fall over now. You take your hand away
You don't ever put your hand back in there until it jacks off the ground
and while you're jacking your four wheel drive off the ground this triangle in here of the High Lift Jack is the absolute danger zone
So you want to make sure your head and your hands nothing is in this area?
While, you're lifting your four wheel drive off the ground. And as you start lifting, you're four wheel drive off the ground you want to listen out for?
each and every one of those
Clicks those clicks because those clicks is is the pin dropping you each one of these holes and until you hear that click
This handle is absolutely lethal weapon. So make sure you lift. Listen out for those clicks handle all the way up
Another one there
Listen out for those clicks again
So if it was to fall out of my hands now fair dinkum that would bang up there too, rate of knots
So if your what your head or your hands are anything in there, they're gonna get severely damaged
So make sure there's that click and now it's safe
again down once more
Click it's now safe handle can't go anywhere
one more
Click there we go
now when you've got you your vehicle up to the height that you need to do it you've got to do make sure that you
Lock that handle away
It's got a locking pin there couple clips on the side that lock the handle
Back to the bar there and that way it's secure anyone walking around isn't going to bang into it
So make sure that handles locked away. That's nice and safe
So you finished doing what it is what you need to do with your Four Wheel Drive now
It's time to get the jack back down again and get your Four Wheel Drive back on the ground now before you can do that
That lever that's in there
You've got to get that in the down position before you can start cranking the handle and getting a jack
mechanism back on the ground now don't ever use anything that's got skin attached to it your hand your finger to hit that lever because if
For some reason, you know your hands in there your fingers in there when you and you hit that lever
You'll remember your whole Four Wheel Drivers load on this
there's a stack of weight sitting on this whole mechanism at the moment if this has a
malfunction and drops for whatever reason when you hit that lever fair chance, you're going to lose a finger or
Worse, you know your hand or something like that. So just be very careful when you're hitting that lever there
That's why I've got a hammer
You know, it's got a hammer in the back of my Four Wheel Drive that I use for banging camp pegs in stuff like that
So just hit that or just get a bit of wood or spanner anything
But just nothing that's got skin attached to it to ever touch that lever
So, gonna get this jack back down now. So I'm just going to use a hammer. Let's give out a tap there luckily
Nothing happened. It didn't fall down, which is a good thing
So get rid of the hammer now, it's time to get the jack back down. Now this stage here. This is very dangerous
This this first stage of it because you've got to get one more click up
Out of your jack here before this can start down back down
So again remember as soon as this this first click comes on this handle is going to be loaded
So you've got to keep a good grip on it get there we go. It's clicked out now. Alright, and that's there
Then you go get one will lift click down it goes
And keep listening out for those clicks because when you hear that click like now, it's a loaded weapon this handle
There we go. Now it's not going anywhere get one more. Click out of it. Click now. It's loaded
Just take your time. There's no rush at all. When you're using anything like these just keep that head and handle well out of that
That's climbing down there nicely
one more click
Just climbed up and down bit like climbing a ladder really
Here we go. Now you can start to steady the top
There's no weight on it anymore. And there we go
and get that out and
And that drops down
handle locks away
And that's how you use a High Lift Jack nice and safely
There you go guys, that's how you use a High Lift Jack nice and safely grab yourself a baseplate of some sort then your
Jack's not going to sink in the ground and fear chance
I'm going to pack this all up and here at the bush somewhere might see you out there
I reckon good on ya guys catch later on