Harbor Freight jackstand recall

[FrenchToast]

Harbor Freight Jack Stand Recall on 3 & 6 Ton Stands

FYI

Reminder to ensure your lifting equipment is in proper working order, regardless of the brand.

[jjeffries]

I have a pair of the affected six ton stands, and the height-setting ratchet mechanism has never inspired much faith. John

[pfarah]

I invested in a couple pairs of these units (Schwaben) years ago which are lightweight and very strong.

[OK-944]

I have a lift (E-Z Car Lift and love it) which I use almost exclusively these days, but back when it was always jack stands (including with an engine drop on a badly cracked garage floor) I never did completely trust those ratcheting style jacks - so yeah, those Schwaben's look like a go-to.

Thing is...no matter what I use (even with the lift), I always place a "safety spacer" (a stand cobbled from two 4x4's with 3/4" ply end caps), at a location under the car, depending on where I happen to be working, which, in the event of lift/support failure, would cause the car to tip in a direction favoring my escape.

Call me paranoid...but my wife is a nurse practitioner and she's got a number of horror stories of folks being squashed under their cars from a variety of lift-failures, a fate I really don't want to embrace!

[Kwazii]

If anyones shopping for new ones, another good brand is Esco. The flat tops work well with some of the 944 lift points, and these have a nice wide base for stability

[rbuswell]

The clerk just looked at them and took the item number off of it. Didn't have any new ones, which I wouldn't have taken anyway, or a gift card. Very painless. I never did trust them and only kept them for times I wanted to lift something but didn't need to climb under.

[944 Ecology]

My wife got me a couple of gifts for my birthday. First, she got me a brand new life insurance policy! Then, she got me a pair of Harbor Freight jackstands!!!