{"id":31477,"date":"2018-05-22T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2018-05-23T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:45:11","slug":"42-in-off-road-farm-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/42-in-off-road-farm-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"42 in. Off-Road Farm Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homesteading involves lots of pulling, prying, yanking, and tugging on things &#8212; everything from ripping out stumps, moving structures, to dismantling fences. Mechanical advantage is a must. There are a lot of tools out there that can give you the needed leverage, but one of the humblest and most versatile is the farm jack. The farm jack is a lot like any other jack you might have used, reduced to its simplest form. The entire thing has about seven parts, and it works with a simple spring loaded ratchet-and-pawl system that is nearly indestructible. I&#8217;ve had the Pittsburgh farm jack for a year and I&#8217;ve used it for a variety of tasks that would otherwise have been either a big nuisance or just plain impossible, including moving a 400-pound chicken coop, pulling stubborn U-posts out of the ground, and lifting equipment into an elevated position for repair. This jack is rated to 3.5 tons and has a maximum lift of 42 inches. The base has bolt holes in case you want to mount it to a board for better weight distribution, and the jack prong is just the right size to hook under a 2&#215;4 to prevent marring whatever you are jacking up. You&#8217;ll also often see farm jacks strapped to the hoods of Jeeps among those who go off-roading &#8212; if your vehicle flips, it&#8217;s useful to have something available to help flip it back. As a testament to the value of this particular jack, it&#8217;s one of the few pieces of equipment at Harbor Freight that almost never goes on sale &#8212; but with a 20-percent coupon you can get it for under $50.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2018\/05\/IMGA00471.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multipurpose design for lifting, pulling and spreading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31497,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions\/31497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}