How many of you have the correct jack

[Rodney Bullock]

I found this jack in my Grandfathers tool house, I am told it is for a 1940's car. Who has seen this type before? The name on the jack is spelled SWETT.

[eric wissing]

I always thought of those jacks as being "house jacks" good for holding up posts. Eric

[Rodney Bullock]

I don't know, you could be right, he was a great carpenter, could this be a house jack?

[randroid]

Yup. I've leaned my skinny white butt into more than one of those beauties.

-Randy

[Don Coatney]

Rodney;

I have one that looks close to that. Believe this is where the name "bottle jack" originated.

[Norm's Coupe]

Actually, these are called Screw Jacks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VULCAN-BRAND-ANTIQUE-SCREW-JACK-FARM-TOOL-1-1-4-x-6_W0QQitemZ220109160450QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1461QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Merle Coggins]

Screw jacks like that come in many sizes and can be used for many things. But I don't think jacking up a car would be one of them. We use them here for jacking and leveling rock crushing plants.

Merle

[Brad Lustig]

My father-in-law has a whole bevy of those guys. All sorts of sizes. He and his dad used to be in the house moving business.

[Rodney Bullock]

As a child I witnessed a house moved some 15 miles from it's original location. There was a family that bid on a house and won the bid. As a result they had to move the house to there land down the road from my Grandfather. We watched as this company of American indians which were professional movers, relocated this house. I was at the house this week end as the two bothers became very close friends of my uncle and I. He has showed me house jacks that the indians left behind many many years ago, they are enormous and look nothing like the little jack shown here. I am going to display this jack for family members and as I unearth different tool I will restore them. It's fun and I get to look into the past at the same time, thanks everyone for setting the record straight.

could this be the jack that was used on my Grandfathers 32 chevy coupe?

[Fireball]

Jack who? Nicholson?

My car is so low that my jack doesn't fit underneath it, what a hassle to get it up from the grounds

[Norm's Coupe]

Rodney,

This second jack does look like the ones used in some early model cars 20's & 30's and before. They were also screw jacks. Difference was you turn that side wheel with a handle to jack it up. That first jack would be hard to jack up a car with though.

[BobT-47P15]

Here is a pic of an old auto jack on ebay.....looks a lot like yours.

I think what may be missing is the handle. Have you found a crank style handle of some type in all the miscellaneous goodies??

[Rodney Bullock]

Yes I found something that was about 6 feet long, maybe it gores to it. In that corner of the shed are a couple of jacks and stands, I even saw a bumper jack. Wow I guess my grandad never threw anything away. I will grease that jack and get it working for my 1941 Plymouth, thanks all:D

[Harold M]

Rodney, I think the jack you sent the picture of is a 50's Chev. P.U.

[David Maxwell]

...I would never use it! Scares me just thinking about it!