12/03/2020
Its been brought to my attention that the use of a wood block under a factory or bottle jack is unsafe and that I'm portraying something unsafe. Thats just not true. I lift millions of dollars worth of equipment on a daily basis for a living with a 10,000 PSI cylinder jack using the correct wood blocking to compensate for jack height and I've adapted and downsized that technique to teach in my off road tire clinics. I'm here to tell you that a lot of our training is about using what you have not what you wished you had and this is no different. Yes we have a Hi Lift Jack base that could have been used but that only covers some of the wheeling community as not everyone has one or can afford it either but everyone can get free access to a small piece of hardwood chunk of wood.
I felt compelled to make two videos showing a bottle jack and a HI LIFT JACK on a block of wood to show as a stability test/demo for everyone to see for themselves.
** For the Hi Lift segment the lift mate was used but can't be seen in the video***
