Hein-Werner HW93503 3-Ton Jack Stands

The HW93503 is a pair of 3-ton (6,000 lb pair-rated) ratchet-style jack stands built from alloy steel in the United States. The height is adjusted via a toothed ratchet bar with a cotter-pin secondary redundancy element; a locking pawl holds the bar at any position within the 12·17-inch saddle range. The quad-leg A-frame base measures 9 x 7.25 inches and sits flat on level garage concrete without shimming per community owners. The saddle is a wide 4.5-inch cast V-groove, suitable for frame rails and axle tubes, without a rubber pad. The listing cites ANSI/ASME PALD certification; that is a material-handling equipment standard, not the jack-stand-specific ASME PASE standard. Independent ASME PASE documentation has not been located. The stands are well-reviewed by owners; long-term owners report weld quality among the best available and supporting a 7,000-lb Duramax on four of these stands.

These stands fit truck and SUV owners who want US-made, heavy-gauge construction and a wide community evidence base showing no locking failures in the available review sample. The 12-inch minimum saddle height and 3-ton rating cover the common light-truck and mid-size SUV use case. Skip these if you need a stand with documented ASME PASE certification for shop or fleet compliance requirements: a stand with published third-party ASME PASE documentation provides a confirmed load-certification record that this model's spec sheet does not. The ratchet-style mechanism is also worth considering: pin-style stands carry a lower documented failure-mode risk following the 2020 ratchet-stand recall pattern, even when the specific model was not part of that recall.

Jack stands are life-safety equipment. A stand that fails while a person is under the vehicle causes death or serious injury. No active CPSC recall applies to this model as of the scoring date (2026-05-30); the 2020 CPSC recall covered Torin BIG RED and Pittsburgh Automotive ratcheting stands, not Hein-Werner. This model uses a ratchet-bar primary locking mechanism (the same mechanism type involved in the 2020 recall); the absence of a recall on this model does not mean the ratchet mechanism is risk-free. The quality score covers the load certification and locking mechanism integrity for this model. For information on floor jacks to use with these stands, see our floor jack reviews. Never work under a vehicle supported only by a floor jack. This product carries a California Proposition 65 warning; the substance was not identified on the product listing reviewed. Alloy steel construction with no chemical exposure in normal use earns a health score of 9.5. At end of life, the steel construction is recyclable at standard scrap metal facilities.