JACK OF ALL TRADES
The high-lift jack was invented 115 years ago and originally called a farm jack or railroad jack.
AS four-wheelers we refer to them as hi-lift jacks these days and generally consider them to be an off-road jack, however they have many uses, and not just off-road. I recently used my own hi-lift on the farm while repairing a gate hinge that had been bent.
How the gate was damaged is another story but it got me thinking about the versatility of the high-lift jack or as it was originally called, a farm
