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Need to get a couple of jackstands. My 1965 C-10 longbed weighs 3,400 pounds. But I'm going to get the 6,000-pound jackstands. Also I'm going to get the ones with the pins instead of just the ratchet type. Any suggestions on what brand?

Thank you

Santa brought me a pair of Goodwrench 3K stands a few years ago and I've been very pleased with them. A lot of people buy Harbor Freight stands but I won't bet my life on them. Cheap doesn't mean much when you're dead from a stand failing. I do have some HF tools but many of them are in the junk drawer. I've had enough HF failures to make me say no.

I believe the Harbor Freight recalled jack stands were replaced by jack stands that were also recalled. Anything that you depend upon not to kill you should be bought from somewhere else, and of verified quality. Pins instead of ratchet is good. Both is even better.

Although these jack stands are not the pin type, I bought a pair of 6-Ton last year from NAPA . The 4 existing ones I had for my cars were not tall enough for our trucks. I got tired of putting stacks of 2x6’s under them to build them up.

I looked on YouTube for demonstrations on how the HF jack stands fail and repeated those same tests on the NAPA stands. They were rock solid so I can recommend these stands.

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I've got a set of heavy duty HF jack stands that I bought 30-40 years ago. I trust them to a point. I don't trust the new ones at all.

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I’ve had HF stands for about 7 years with no problem but I don’t get under my vehicles very often and “always” leave the hydraulic jack locked in place also.

I've some some old harbor Freight jacks. I very seldom use it extended. I have no worries when it's down and few when extended.

Tiny Those goodwrench stands sound good,but in this modern market would need to give anything a good shakedown. I too leave the floor jack tightened just for a safety !!

I just saw that HF now has 6 ton jack stands that use the ratchet mechanism AND a safety pin. Much better than relying on just a ratchet mechanism that may fail.

"HF now has 6 ton jack stands:"

I have old sets - they are excellent : strong and stable.

I used them to hold/support my 2-ton GMC COE with 18' bed.
On my macadam driveway, I put a 12"x12"x2" wood "pad" under each jack stand.

Harbor Freight has had 6 ton jack stands for years, but just recently added the triangular safety pin. After the ones that didn't secure with just the ratcheting mechanism. See the attached picture. I have a set (non-HF) that doesn't have the safety pin, and they hold well.

You mean asphaltic concrete probably. No one has made a macadam road in many years. But putting pads underneath the legs are a must to keep them from making holes in the asphalt (also known as flexible pavement). I have a couple depressions from the wheels of my floor jack in my asphalt driveway from jacking up the front of my F250 Diesel (heavy motor and front axle.)

Thanks for jogging my failing memory, Kevin

As I even more dimly remember, HF did a recent recall on the old stands. I think I returned my six units for the full refund, and then bought four the new version, with the safety pin.

There is a couple of pinned posts at the top of this forum about those defective jackstands.

We have a two post lift, a drive on lift, a front end alignment rack, and a frame alignment rack so seldom need jack stands but IF needed we use the non adjustable ones made from 3/4T Ford rear end axle bells (tubes). For super stability we use old 20" steel racing wheels as this gives not only vertical stability but also doesn't move horizontally. When holding up with the forklift there is a steel square tube to insert by the vertical cylinder and a high tensile chain on the tilt cylinder. NOTHING is worth injury or worse to any of the ones working on toys that are not necessary for ones living or daily transportation.