Hello, we have a farm jack we have used exactly once, and didn't like the way it operated.. Now we need to jack up a tractor stuck in the mud. Front tire needs to be lifted to get it moving forward.
The farm jack goes up fine, but does not come back down properly. I tried taking the lift pins out and oiling it all. The top lift pin does not come out when the handle is stroked up and down. It does work if I pull it out used a screw driver behind the "cross pin". But that seems dangerous.
I'm wondering if the dang thing was put together wrong in the first place. The top cross pin does not go all the way through so as to ride up on the metal ramp and pull the top lift pin out on a handle stroke. Seems like it needs to.
But when I hammered it through so as to do so, the whole dang thing slid all the way down the climbing bar. Is it supposed to do that when there is NO weight on it?
Also, just to check on whether it is together right, which way are the lift pins supposed to face (sloped end)?
Should the sloped end be facing up or down, on the bottom pin, up or down on the top pin?
Thanks much! We are trying to avoid getting hurt bad here....
The farm jack goes up fine, but does not come back down properly. I tried taking the lift pins out and oiling it all. The top lift pin does not come out when the handle is stroked up and down. It does work if I pull it out used a screw driver behind the "cross pin". But that seems dangerous.
I'm wondering if the dang thing was put together wrong in the first place. The top cross pin does not go all the way through so as to ride up on the metal ramp and pull the top lift pin out on a handle stroke. Seems like it needs to.
But when I hammered it through so as to do so, the whole dang thing slid all the way down the climbing bar. Is it supposed to do that when there is NO weight on it?
Also, just to check on whether it is together right, which way are the lift pins supposed to face (sloped end)?
Should the sloped end be facing up or down, on the bottom pin, up or down on the top pin?
Thanks much! We are trying to avoid getting hurt bad here....