“Pipe Spacers” Boost Floor Jack’s Lift Height

“Pipe Spacers” Boost Floor Jack’s Lift Height Terry Benoit’s standard floor jack didn’t reach high enough to lift some of his farm equipment for service work So the Orange Texas man made stackable “pipe spacers” that let him boost the jack’s reach 6 in at a time “It works great on a lot of my farm equipment ” says Benoit “For example I have a pickup with large tires The jack can lift only about 19 in high but by adding 3 spacers I can increase the total lift height to 3 ft ” says Benoit He made the scrapers using scrap 4-in dia pipe 1/2-in thick round steel plate and some 1-in dia steel rod He used a metal bandsaw to cut the pipes 6 in long and then welded a plate onto each end “The plates already had holes in them that were just the right size ” says Benoit “I welded a 1-in long rod into the hole on half of the plates Then I welded a plate with a rod on it to one end of the pipe and an unmodified plate to the other end ” Floor jacks are equipped with a removable shallow round metal “dish” with a stub rod on the bottom that fits into a hole in the jack’s base To add spacers Benoit removes the plate and inserts the spacers as needed then puts the dish back on top “The spacers work something like lego blocks I just place as many spacers as needed on top of each other to get the height that I need ” says Benoit “I recently used the spacers to raise the back end of my posi track skid loader so that I could work on the tracks The floor jack was 2 ft too short so I added 3 spacers ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Terry Benoit 1077 Bobcat Circle Orange Texas 77632 ph 409 363-2569; terry benoit@gerdau com

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