Offroad Recovery Equipment - What do you carry?

[Rockcrawlindude]

...loosen and then gently snug lugs, pick it up and drop it on a stand, more secure than teetering on a bottle jack but there are many reasons to lift a wheel when recovering of course. This thing allows lifting the wheel/axle low and early in the stroke of the jack instead of way up when lifting from anywhere else and can in no way fall off of the jack... a ton safer.
I still carry a couple of bottle jacks in addition to stands/ lengths of 4x4 and 2x4s.

That would be great with a jack stand. Got it.

 

[el_barto]

+1 on the wheel attachment for the hilift. Works on nearly any car, excellent for putting traction boards or other traction device under the tires to raise a high centered/framed out vehicle

Hilift aren’t for changing tires anyways. Use the bottle Jack under the axle for that purpose

 

[Poolmonkey]

+1 on the wheel attachment for the hilift. Works on nearly any car, excellent for putting traction boards or other traction device under the tires to raise a high centered/framed out vehicle

Hilift aren’t for changing tires anyways. Use the bottle Jack under the axle for that purpose
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Yep and no tearing anything up on nicer vehicles, busting windows while jacking precariously on sliders etc.
There were no jack points on that Ford above but it was not getting out without jacking it, just us.. 40+ miles from pavement, was hellish at the time but good memory yep.
And...there are lot of things that can't be fixed safely without a jack stand, stack rocks or shove a wheel maybe.
I haul two stands and prefer tire changes with the Hi Lift over the bottles, myself.

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

Hilift aren’t for changing tires anyways. Use the bottle Jack under the axle for that purpose

I didn’t get that memo. lol.

 

[Hibiki54]

Last time I used a Hi Lift we used it to get a crawl buggy down from an obstacle when it got it front end stuck on a boulder and couldn't get out without ripping off the diff cover. So we used the jack to pick up one wheel from the bottom until the other touched and cleared the diff. Then we drove the buggy back with the wheel still on the jack and let gravity do the rest.