This is the reason that I rationalized buying a four post lift ten years
ago.
Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-
> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Pieter and Linda
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 6:59 AM
> To: Mark LaPierre
> Cc: Steve Gerow; healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Harbor Freight Jacks
>
> You are so right Mark. I have a friend who will be in a wheel chair
> for life after not using Axle stands. The car was on a flat concrete
> surface, on a very substantial trolley jack. The simple act of
> torquing up a nut was enough for the car to slip off the jack and
> fall, breaking his back and a number of ribs. Had it not been for the
> fact that his head was just clear of the gearbox as the car came down
> he would be dead. Our hobby is not worth dying or being crippled for,
> Pieter
> On 05/12/2009, at 12:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
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