Hello All,
Thank you for the people who replied to my posting about trolley jacks and bottle jacks.
I visited one of my favourite shops today - a locally owned manufacturing and engineering supplier. A company that I think once was the part division for Austoft's Sugar cane harvesters. A local company started by the Toft family. They were brought out by Case Tractors and now the harvesters and cane haul out vehicles are now made overseas and the factory has closed.
Anyway the said Toft's kept their parts business and I went in there today looking for a 3.5 ton trolley jack, simply on speculation. There was one on display. As the company do not put prices on their stock I went to their front counter and I was about to ask for the price. Just above the sales desk there was a big black board with the description, "3.5 ton Trolley Jack on sale - discount price until stock runs out - $275.00". Needless to say not long afterwards I was followed out of the store by a kindly salesman with the trolley jack in a nice big box loaded onto a trolley!
I even managed to support a local company and did not have to pay for any freight.
Kind Regards