If you can get a porta pony, you would be totally amazed at the torque it puts out. They even have a torque multiplier for them too, so they can thread up to 6" pipe. Even without the multiplier, it's enough torque to break your arm, hence the 2 foot long handle on it, and even with that it's a hell of a tug. It is usually used with a torque bar to restrain it (on anything over 1" pipe, and it threads up to 2") and the ridgid ones are designed to be used all day every day, just absolutely beating them to death. There is no way I would even attempt to just hold it and thread 2" pipe with it, when it would snap out of my hands it would likely kill me. I lack the vocabulary to express the torque that they put out, it's ungodly. Hunt down a 700, make an adapter for it, and you will turn your Hobbs into a crane winch. Here's a new one at home depot, it will last your career and then some. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjABegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw0MVV1K_0Ju7YmWs0p4n6Hn
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Stumpshot
General Purpose
About like our Central Pneumatic 1" impact. Beastly is right!
Stumpshot
General Purpose
Go pick one up and use it... It's beastly till it breaks! 
Cobleskill
Treehouser
https://shop.harborfreight.com/medi...78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/3/63183_I.jpg
Beastly? Maybe not, but does seem burly. I am rolling the dice on one. Seems like buyers have liked theirs. 100 lbs.
Beastly? Maybe not, but does seem burly. I am rolling the dice on one. Seems like buyers have liked theirs. 100 lbs.
chris_girard
Treehouser
Great tool. I have threaded many pieces of pipe with the Model 700 over the years...I come from a family of plumbers.
Stumpshot
General Purpose
Funny, our Ingersoll Rand 3/4" impact is stripped out dead at the shop. Two Earthquakes are going strong, though.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
bump.
I was looking for a cheaper drill adapter for my GRCS, but it was for the Hobbs.
$65 it will be, and well spent. Hoping to get some use out of my GRCS next week or two.
Maybe Rich's entry into the house in this thread.
I was looking for a cheaper drill adapter for my GRCS, but it was for the Hobbs.
$65 it will be, and well spent. Hoping to get some use out of my GRCS next week or two.
Maybe Rich's entry into the house in this thread.
chris_girard
Treehouser
I was actually thinking of selling my GRCS and getting another Hobbs H2.
For me, I just love everything about the H2. I am friends with Greg Good and have nothing bad to say about the GRCS, so for those out there that want a GRCS, you will be getting a top quality lowering device that you can't go wrong with.
For me, I just love everything about the H2. I am friends with Greg Good and have nothing bad to say about the GRCS, so for those out there that want a GRCS, you will be getting a top quality lowering device that you can't go wrong with.
HOBBS is a lowering device, GRCS is both, lol 😉
chris_girard
Treehouser
LOL, I fully understand frans. I do a lot more lowering than lifting though.
pete mctree
Treehouser
Honestly I forget.
give Greg a call he got it for me
Merle Nelson
TreeHouser
I like the simplicity of the ratchet wrench mod as an addition to the Hobbs.
Just used my GRCS on a job to lift big branches and big wood. Love the right tool for the right job.
Just used my GRCS on a job to lift big branches and big wood. Love the right tool for the right job.
