Are they any good?

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/pro...13386_200313386

No, but I like the looks of them...pinned and made of aluminum so they are light.

I picked up 4 jack stands the other day at an estate sale but they were the screw type and either aluminum or alloy for a outrageously cheap price of $5.

Dave

I have 4 Harbor Freight Aluminum jack stands in my 'track kit'. I have never had to use them or the aluminum "race jack" that I bought with them but my god they're gorgeous!

Interesting comment in the ad. One guy liked the "small footprint". Smaller footprint means a more tippy jackstand. Long as they are used with that thought in mind they should be OK.

I have a pair that came with an aluminum jack that I bought from Home Depot. I've been using them for 3 years now. The base is actually about the same size as the jack stands that I purchased from Tractor Supply last year. I've never had any tipping problems.

No, I don't have those, but I'd like to.

If Mike trusts them, they have to be good.

WORD!!! Once you've had one fail, and a car land on your beak, you might have an opinion on jackstands!

I have 2 of them and I love them. I use other blocks of wood and a jack 1/4" off of contact since I live in SoCal.

They are gorgeous, light and I put them under the front doughnuts, but I always have other things to catch the car in case we get a 7.4 or stronger.

I also spend as little time under the car as possible.

I want to drive the car, not cushion it!

John

I have some BluePoint stands that are awefully similar looking. They don't go very high, but they work great when I use them. Never had any stability problems.

I like aluminum stands as their light weight makes them good travel stands.

The aluminum ones I have have wide bases which I prefer, especially if needing to use them on a less than ideal (read - flat) surface.

For home/shop, the heavy duty ones are fine, don't need to be light weight.


The ones shown look nice and I like that they are pinned, but I don't like the small bases ...

Consider that a jackstand base is only as stable as its smallest flat sides. I just measured a set of 'small' clicky harbor freight jackstands and they're 6.5" from flat to flat. My BluePoints are 7" across. So the BluePoints are more stable.

The link above lists...

So the ones linked to above are also more stable (6.75") than the HF stands I measured.

Got a set for christmas, haven't taken them out of the box yet.

I looked at them, but haven't bought because I have a set of 2 old school steel pin type wide framed square base stands which are pretty stable that I'd like to match with some garage sale types - since nobody apparently makes that type anymore.

Another option is the sets of 2 or 4 aluminum screw-type wide base stands which Camping World online sells for trailers for $22 & $45 respectively IIRC. Look online at their website.