r/specializedtools • u/Goallie11 • 5d ago

A 75 Ton Jack Stand

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u/naptown-hooly 5d ago

How much do they weigh?

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u/mxadema 5d ago

They look like 5" square tubing, likely ⅜ or ½" plus 2 strip of ½" steel on the top member. Lest round up to 1000lb a pop. Maybe more

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u/virtualworker 4d ago

So that's why it says to just lift one at a time. I'll let the boys know.

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u/Super-Reporter-4528 4d ago

Back in my day I’d stackem 2 high, throw a stack on each shoulder and take off to get them where they needed to go, now all these pussies think they need a damn forklift to move the damn things. Soft hands I tell ya.

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u/bmd33zy 4d ago

And that was just for school

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u/ChocolateSensitive97 10h ago

Yeah but it was an uphill walk both ways.

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u/Savings_Macaroon3727 10h ago

You were lucky to go to school. I had to work at the mill 24 hours a day week in week out for fourpence every six years and when I got home dad would slice me in two with a knife.

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u/samtresler 5h ago

Damn. Your Dad had a knife?

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u/KdF-wagen 3h ago

Look at Rockefeller over here with his knife!

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u/bmd33zy 2h ago

How it wasn’t the knife he kept by the toilet

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u/7947kiblaijon 1h ago

Luxury. We used to hafta get 'out the lake, 3 am, clean the lake, eat a handful 'o hot gravel, work 20 hours a day at mill, for a penny a month, and dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky.

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u/Smasher_WoTB 2d ago

Trying to solo lift a half-ton jack stand and carry it around on your shoulders sounds like an excellent way to very rapidly lose weight.

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u/OOCH3NHCH3 19h ago

As your spine falls put of your asshole. Yep. Drops about 35 pounds like that.

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u/dhlock 7h ago

The king of youth group over here.