Wisconsin Joe

Title tells the tale.

Got the latest flyer in the mail. Says "Disposal Notice" across the top. Coupons good until 6/30.

Page 5 has a coupon for 6 ton stands, $34.99 a pair.

Best price I've ever seen. Can't find it online, but the flyers are usually available at the front door of the stores.

These are the ones to use with lift bars.

davek9

Thank you!!!

Wisconsin Joe

Bumping the thread because they are on sale again.

Flyer was in the mail this past week, 6T stands for $34.99/pair with coupon until end of March.

Wisconsin Joe

Bump again. Tried to edit the thread title, but I don't seem to be able to. Just the top of the original post.

Got the flier in the mail. Front says 'Prices SMASHED', delivery date of 8/24 to 8/30.

Page 5, bottom row. 6t stands for $29.99

bureau13

WTF...I just looked online and they were like $45, so I saved myself a 20 minute drive and got some from Amazon for the same price. But that price is definitely NOT $29...

hacker-pschorr

It sounds like you need a coupon for this deal.

I think I'm done buying anything at HF where your life is in danger if it fails. Their quality control seems to be getting worse. The most recent purchase, a motorcycle jack, the safety catches (all three) failed. Thankfully I had a good hand on my bike or it could have ended very badly (it would have most certainly landed on a 928).

I have 8 snap-on jack stands, picked up 2nd had years ago.

How about these:

Sure they cost more and are only 3-ton (928 only weighs 1.8 tons), but you'll have them the rest of your life.

https://www.floorjackshop.com/top-ra...ds-for-safety/

The problem with products where the design may be fine, but individual quality control varies greatly between item to item, you won't know you got a "bad" one until it fails. Kinda risky with a jack stand.

Wisconsin Joe

It needs the coupon. I get the flier in the mail, but they are usually available at the front door.

I won't argue with Hacker about the Q/C issues.

But you can see the welds on the stands, and crappy welds are usually identifiable.

Didn't someone have an issue with a lift that was only tack-welded? It's not just HF.

Fracture

add to cart and the price is reduced
Valid till 9/30

jtrygstad

Safety first.

This video shows how beefy these the Esco stands are.
The 10499 is a lower profile of the same stand with same stable footprint.

dr bob

Twenty years ago the US moved away from the "tube stands" with the pins. I had a few sets and just kept using them. Until... I had my DD Ford Explorer sitting on them while the rear wheels were off. One of the stands started to tear with a weld failure, and folded like a potato chip. There was enough room to get a scissors jack under a frame section and get the car up enough for the roller jack. Fortunately I wasn't under the car as the stand failed. Those Esco stands in the video are tube stands with pins.

I've had no failures or even near-failures with the steel latch-and lever stands. The jackstand shelf has four 3T and four 6T imported stands on it, and I do know that a life can depend on them. They are carefully placed, the latch is verified before loading them, etc. I also use the 3T stands under the lift carriage for extra safety and height adjustability with no issues. The 3T stands, on plywood pads, hold the car up during hibernation season with no problems. Indexed hockey pucks protect the lift points on the car when using the stands these days.

Buy stands you are willing to bet your life on.

GT6ixer

Warning..

Being from Pittsburgh, it always eff'ing annoyed me that HF trademarked our citiy's name to make cheap a$$ tools in China and Taiwan. At one point early in the last century, approximately 80% of all the steel, aluminum and glass in this country came from Pittsburgh. It's a good chance that the office building you are reading this from now contains steel, and or aluminum, and or glass once made in Pittsburgh. During the cold war Pittsburgh was high on the list of Soviet nuclear targets due to it being the heart of industrial production in the country. Today, not so much, but the legacy remains and the city very much leans back on it's industrial prowess as a point of pride. "Pitsburgh" tools obviously takes advantage of this legacy while at the same time blatantly $hitting on it. I'm sure no one at HF hq even gave an ounce of consideration to that or would care and I know HF customer's don't care. Heck the tools could be called "Tampax Tools" and guys would still buy them to save a buck.

But hey I'm not judging anyone for buying HF stuff. It's your money, you worked for it, buy what you want where you want. I just feel better knowing my money goes somewhere else, especially when buying tools.

Ok, I'm done. Sorry for the hi-jack(stand)

PorKen

Note that ESCO axle-type stands can be used with Liftbars (rubber flat tops cannot be used).

Hey_Allen

While I will always say to buy the safest stands that you can, I don't agree on likening the Esco stands to the old sheet metal tube stands that so many of us have seen split.
The old tube stands that I have seen were nothing but a piece of tube about as thick as exhaust pipe, with another, slightly smaller tube slipped inside them.
The outer tube was split up the side, and flared out, and sometimes limited with a strap riveted or screwed onto them near the bottom end.

The Esco ones in the pictures and video appear to be a good bit heavier pipe, with a solid bar center post with the holes drilled through it, and the legs welded onto the outer portion.
I was not able to find any thickness numbers on their site or the Amazon listings.

That said, I only have the latch and teeth style stands in my garage, purchased from Sears for the most part.

dr bob

I think I gave away a set of H-F 3T stands at an event a few years ago. No idea if they are any better or worse than the world-manufacturing-market lowest-cost-to-produce stands that carry a Snap-On label. Chances of finding a made-in-USA from real USA steel stand at a local retail outlet is very poor these days. Maybe with 20%+ tariffs added on imported pieces, US steel manufacturing will spin up to fill the $ gap. In the meanwhile, only some low-volume specialty products will be made here. As soon as there's a decent market segment, the same product will show up in a container ship from China.

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STRIKEMASTER

My experience with HF 6-Ton jack-stands.
..I was changing out my leaking steering rack and the 3 ton stands from HF didn't give me enough lift. I got a set of 6 ton stands from HF because they are 'taller'...
The 6-ton stand collapsed when I put the weight of the car on it....The ratchet notches weren't cut deep enough to hold the 3300 Lbs of my 928.... I took them back for a refund....Maybe that's why they only want $30 for them....YMMV