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N9FE
07-30-2008, 05:55 AM
So you say Jethro your buying or better yet yo mamma's givin you her old double wide trailer and ya need to pull out your old ground rod for your new hamshack.. Well ya go out to your 72 camaro out back up on blocks and grab the bumper jack and the vice grips you've been using as a shifter. You take that vice grip and clamp it on your ground rod about two inches from the ground, Now comes the fun part, You take your bumper jack, stick the little clip under the vice grip and jack that ground rod clean out of the ground. This also work's for your new mail box and clothes line pole, Hell it might even help level your new double wide.. :lol: :lol: :roll:
KB9ZGB
08-27-2008, 09:19 PM
wanna trade for the camaro?????? i want the blocks too
WA4TM
08-27-2008, 10:56 PM
wanna trade for the camaro?????? i want the blocks too


:mrgreen: Will have to mow the grass to find it first!! :mrgreen:
N2NH
08-28-2008, 12:05 AM
Read it while it's still here.
:mrgreen:
kd6nig
08-28-2008, 10:42 AM
I bet there are many who don't even know what a bumper jack is, because they have a AAA card in their wallet :)
N8YX
08-28-2008, 10:53 AM
I bet there are many who don't even know what a bumper jack is, because they have a AAA card in their wallet :)

Then there are those of us who don't need them to remove a ground rod...opting instead for a couple pairs of decent-sized Vise Grips and a deadlift stance. Never met a ground rod which I couldn't extract using this approach... :mrgreen:
kd6nig
08-28-2008, 11:47 AM
I bet there are many who don't even know what a bumper jack is, because they have a AAA card in their wallet :)

Then there are those of us who don't need them to remove a ground rod...opting instead for a couple pairs of decent-sized Vise Grips and a deadlift stance. Never met a ground rod which I couldn't extract using this approach... :mrgreen:

The only other problem with a bumper jack is if you have a car that came with it originally still and you don't keep it in repair. One of my buddies had one of those, and he found out just how bad the rust under the car had got one night when he tried to change a rear tire-the jack ripped half the bumper off.

Thing was built like a tank though, but with gas the way it is now, he'd be spending a fortune on it.
N8YX
08-28-2008, 11:58 AM
The only other problem with a bumper jack is if you have a car that came with it originally still and you don't keep it in repair. One of my buddies had one of those, and he found out just how bad the rust under the car had got one night when he tried to change a rear tire-the jack ripped half the bumper off.

Thing was built like a tank though, but with gas the way it is now, he'd be spending a fortune on it.

I watched that happen to a brand-new Yugo when a bumper lift was attempted... :shock:
kd6nig
08-28-2008, 12:03 PM
The only other problem with a bumper jack is if you have a car that came with it originally still and you don't keep it in repair. One of my buddies had one of those, and he found out just how bad the rust under the car had got one night when he tried to change a rear tire-the jack ripped half the bumper off.

Thing was built like a tank though, but with gas the way it is now, he'd be spending a fortune on it.

I watched that happen to a brand-new Yugo when a bumper lift was attempted... :shock:

We had a guy in high school with one of those. We loved to move it across the parking lot to another spot or, if nobody was parked next to him, we'd rotate it 90 degrees so he couldn't get it out till one of the cars parked next to it moved.

I'm a scrawny guy and was in those days too but that car could be easily moved by 4 people. Course, when he put it into a snowbank one time, he just enlisted 3 other people to help him carry it out.

I never did look under the hood to see how many hamsters he had running in the wheel to make it go.
N8YX
09-02-2008, 09:40 AM
I never did look under the hood to see how many hamsters he had running in the wheel to make it go.

Both of them.
wd0ct
09-02-2008, 09:40 PM
The only other problem with a bumper jack is if you have a car that came with it originally still and you don't keep it in repair. One of my buddies had one of those, and he found out just how bad the rust under the car had got one night when he tried to change a rear tire-the jack ripped half the bumper off.

Thing was built like a tank though, but with gas the way it is now, he'd be spending a fortune on it.

I watched that happen to a brand-new Yugo when a bumper lift was attempted... :shock:

I sat in a brand new Yugo that had a 1/2 inch gap to daylight around one side of the windshield.
WØTKX
09-02-2008, 09:47 PM
Other Euro Trashy Autos...

http://modculture.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/28/trabant.jpg

The Trabant

http://digilander.libero.it/cuoccimix/Wartburg360-scoccaportante_WEB.jpg

The Wartburg

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/TheLarch.gif

'AND NOW...NO. 1...THE LARCH...AND NOW...' ....oooops wrong sketch! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
kd6nig
09-03-2008, 08:39 AM
The only other problem with a bumper jack is if you have a car that came with it originally still and you don't keep it in repair. One of my buddies had one of those, and he found out just how bad the rust under the car had got one night when he tried to change a rear tire-the jack ripped half the bumper off.

Thing was built like a tank though, but with gas the way it is now, he'd be spending a fortune on it.

I watched that happen to a brand-new Yugo when a bumper lift was attempted... :shock:

I sat in a brand new Yugo that had a 1/2 inch gap to daylight around one side of the windshield.

Ah, come on now. Thats air conditioning!
k9yli
09-03-2008, 09:36 AM
common mark , or rastus,, you know everyone around here has a handyman jack.
I've got two. you just drill a 2 inch hole through the power pole, insert a pipe, put jacks on each side and jack up the pole. ground rod is attached so it comes right along with the pole. lets you get the new double wide in with out soo much backing and filling to get it correctly mis-aligned.

don
K8WPJ
09-03-2008, 09:39 AM
I've pulled mounts out of the ground with the tractor before...


Using a Ford 2000 Tractor, back up to the target post, and drop the three point hitch to the bottom, and wrap a chain firmly around the pole, then around the knuckle at the end of one of the 3 point hitch arms.

Bump your RPM's a bit, and slowly raise the hitch, with some digging and a few vertical tugs, that pole should come right out, even if it's in concrete... (concrete bases do take some digging to persuade them tho..)

If it's just a pole driven into the ground the tractor should take it right out... Just be careful the front end stays on the ground while you do this.