So not to be a this-vs-that thread, a high-lift has it's place in recover; but, I've found that the more your suspension droop increases, the less the high-lift is effective for the task of changing a tire. I saw an adapter that allowed a bottle jack to be used on the axle tube. I'm cheap though, so I decided to make my own. The materials cost me $5.00 from a local steel company, actually more than I needed - 1 foot of 4" channel and 1 foot of 1 1/2 DOM. I already had the welder. This adapter allows me to lift my rig with a 12ton bottle jack under the axle tube so I'm not fighting the suspension in order to get the tire off the ground. This combined with a couple tire chalks and it even works on an incline.

 

Not sure those milk crates are gonna hold up to the weight of the Jeep..





Lol j/k

 

Nice, I think I have enough in my scrap pile to whip out one of these thanks for the idea. I don't like using my death jack (hi-lift) unless absolutely necessary and have it as more of a recovery tool than for a jack for working on the vehicle.

 

A small piece of plywood (3/4" thick and a foot square should do it) will sometimes prove useful in keeping that jack on top of softer soils. I've had a floor jack driven into a well-used roadbed just enough that it was necessary to dig a hole so we could put the replacement tire on. That, BTW, was sufficient to bend the frame of the floor jack (2-1/2 ton Craftsman), making it a useless piece of junk.

8:30 if not forwarded ...

https://youtu.be/__eRvYZ9TXY?t=510

 

Hahahaha. Now that's funny right there!