Thread: cheap Hi lift jacks

anyone had/seen/used one of these cheap hi lift jacks?


Lifting Jack 48" 3T Farm Jacks | Trade Me

Originally Posted by gimp

anyone had/seen/used one of these cheap hi lift jacks?


Lifting Jack 48" 3T Farm Jacks | Trade Me

Got one in the garage,yours if you get up to Richmond sometime.

I dont know about those ones but I have dealt with Topmaq before and theirs are not much more. I am happy wth Topmaq stuff and they are pretty good to deal with. Always a bit cautious of "no pick up" but they may be operating from storage like we are so should probably not hold that against them.

I see the one you are looking at has a max lift height of 1070mm but the topmaq ones are 1225mm and 1450mm so it may be the Topmaq ones are taller.

GREATBULL 3 Ton 1510mm Farm Jack High Lift | AVJA1400 | Topmaq/Specials | TopmaQ

GREATBULL 3 Ton 1225mm Farm Jack High Lift | AVJA1300 | Topmaq/Specials | TopmaQ

Yeah they work

i have bent one of the ones of trademe, it may not be the jacks fault though. was lifting the corner of a 9mx3.5m portacom. it did lift it about 500mm before it bent though

I've got that exact one from the same vendor, but 15 bucks cheaper, go figure. Only used it to move logs so far when felling neighbours trees, no issues to date

We have 3 cheap ones at work all 3 are in the scrap bin
Happy to buy a sako so spend the money on decent gear
They have all let go in the casting

probably a good point

I've bent the shaft on my cheap one... go ARB (or similar).

Boots, rifles, scopes, binoculars, rain coats, high-lift jacks why would you go cheap?

You could give my mate a call - Stu

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Ph 09 4444 633

Tell him I said to call... He'll probably charge you double!

I have had a bit to do with them, great tool but can be dangerous, if not used correctly,
seen lots of the cheap ones fail, Jackall's and high lift, are the best for quality, 48" been the most common and usefull size for off road.
here is a bit of a thread on them,
Jack all/farm jack/best jack or worst jack

when you do get one grab a hi-lift jack kit off 4wd bits.co. turns the jack into a 2 ton winch with chains, we use one at work to pull stumps and move heavy stuff
4WDbits High Lift Jack 5 Meter Winching Kit

Yeah I've used them a lot, very useful piece of equipment. Have a winch on my truck already so not going to bother with the winching kit at the moment.

MY old man was a mechanic/engineer and his words of wisdom, don't buy cheap shit as there is a reason it is cheap, it doesnt bloody last

Bought a used "POWERBUILT" one off trademe for 80 bucks. Looks decent quality.