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Andrew2005:
Hi All

Very interesting read!  I have a High Lift jack, but never knew it would turn out to be so versitile.  How do you set it up for recovering a car as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Cheers

Andy

william127:
clip one shakle on the top of the bar(non moving part) and tie with a strop  to a tree/stationary veichle. then put a shackle trough the toe of the jack and attach to the oblect to be winched withanother strop (this is the hard part in getting the strop tight enough that you dont waste 3/4s of the travel pulling it tight). then pump up the jack- i saw it demonstrated at the lrw show 8 years ago, never thought of it till 4 months ago when i needed it and it was all really simple, once youv done it once its easy,

if you rotate the top hook you can even use the jack for clamping- apareently

Range Rover Blues:
There was an article in the GLASS magazine a year or more ago about tieing "prosic loops" and making a Hi-Lift climb alaong a rope.  A prucis loop is a self-tightening knot almost that slips in one direction and grips only when load is applied.  CLimbers also use them to get out of tanglesin their gear, by tying Prusic loops with their boot laces.

Anyhow, with the hi-lift kit you get a removable pin for the base plate, 2 choke hooks on short length so f 10mm chain and 2 adapters.  One goes over the lidfting toe, the other goes on the end of the "standard", the main upright of the jack.  You then fasten a strop to the top of the standard and tot he other end you need about 5m of 10mm chain.

Hook the chain form the toe onto the 5m of chain, taking up most os the slack, then pump the Hi-Lift to winch.  When you run out of Hi_lift you secure the second choke hook to the chain as tight as possible and revere the Hi-Lift.

As it goes down the second choke hitch takes the starin, you then run the toe back down the standard, reconect it further along the 5m chain and start again.

Range Rover Blues:
Not very clear but here's some pictures of mine in use.

clbarclay:

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--- Quote from: J.D. on June 05, 2009, 11:59:46 ---
Or one of the 5 tonne ratchet straps. I double them up to make them 10 tonne SWL, and then use the ratchet to take up the slack.

NOTE: Not all of the ratchet straps available come with a label with the SWL on them, if you are going to use one for this purpose make sure A) it is new and B) it is rated.

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I'm guessing you *could* use a pair of ratchet straps by themselves for recovery if you really had to.

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Not rearly. The ratcheting mechanism is only effective for very short pulls and after a few inches looses force. We tried that once at home to get a G wagen onto a flat bed and even with 2 ratchet straps for a down hill pull on smooth ground it was pure masachism.

I find the ratchet straps are a good alternative to chain, being lighter and the ratchets will take up pretty much all the slack, making full use of the hilifts short lenght. I've lots track how many times I've winched with a hilift, but only once it required more than a 4ft pull and that wasn't realy necissery.

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