Specialty tools are endless — pick some job that you know someone somewhere is going to have to do, and there’s a tool for it. If you need to remove institutional-grade glued-down carpet in the middle of the day at a school, or in the middle of the night in a maternity ward, you’ll probably want this quiet, glued-down-carpet puller.
Four feet long and weighing less than 20lbs, the Jackrabbit Carpet Puller is more portable and quieter than a motorized carpet destruction monstrosity, and it beats the hell out of pulling up narrow strips of carpet by hand. Plus you get to use a big lever to twist the covering right off the floor!
The only hit on street pricing is $430, but that’s a lot less expensive than the electric carpet puller I found on my new favorite flooring-tool retailer’s site.
Jackrabbit Carpet Puller [Corporate Site]
Electric Carpet Puller [Shag Tools]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
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I think I’d rather use the “motorized carpet destruction monstrosity.”
We use this tool on a regular basis, you just cant beat it on a unitary back carpet where the electric puller just shreds it. And what a time saver! We were in a room 20×20 and before we had the Jackrabbit it took us 7 hours to get it out, then we purchased the Jackrabbit with the same size room it was gone within a half an hour it was gone! I,ll take the Jackrabbit over the electric puller any day of the week and its guarenteed forever so its well worth the 430.
What a great carpet tool and it looks solid.
I work for a state college here in northwest Florida, and in a 30′ x 58′ room, using one of these, we pulled up a direct lay that had been seriously over-glued and in place for 20 years in less than 6 hours. We’d tried to pull it by hand and got less than 1/8th of the room done in 4 hours.
The machine puller may be easier to use, but, for the money, convenience & ease of use, this is a win.