What are bottle jacks used for?

[GarageQueen]

as per title, never known what people use these for?

[DuraAce]

Jacking vehicles up?

More so with 4x4 type stuff.

[PositronicRay]

Unless it's a smooth, hard surface, a trolley jack will pull the car over. Bottle jack goes straight up.

Edited by PositronicRay on Saturday 10th December 11:56

[Allan L]

You can't easily take a trolley jack with you all the time.

[paintman]

I carry one of the small £20ish trolley jacks in the RRC, together with a short piece of thick ply. Takes up little room & much safer than the screw type bottlejack that it came with. I have a couple of wheel chocks in the car as well.
One of the best uses for a bottle jack is the cheap hydraulic presses - I've got one of the 10 ton ones & very useful it's been!

[andysgriff]

Jacking vehicles up, the clue is in the name.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

As above, but also jacking up trailers, machines, "adjusting" structures (buildings, bent steel frames etc)

Can also be adapted to be a toe-jack which are used extensively in machinery moves;


Oh, and hydraulic presses;

[lufbramatt]

paintman said:

I carry one of the small £20ish trolley jacks in the RRC, together with a short piece of thick ply. Takes up little room & much safer than the screw type bottlejack that it came with. I have a couple of wheel chocks in the car as well.
One of the best uses for a bottle jack is the cheap hydraulic presses - I've got one of the 10 ton ones & very useful it's been!

We once made a makeshift press using a 20t bottle jack, a railway sleeper and the bottom of a HGV chassis that was parked in the yard to press a wheel bearing shell out of the bottom of a suspension strut when the little press in the workshop wasn't man enough