Ok guys, here's another jack (lift) story. I had just purchased a new 36ft
Motorhome in 1988 (big bucks) and took it to the local Chevy dealer for some
minor after delivery repairs. They did a lot of large motorhome work, and
they had two huge lifts that could pick up the largest motorhome around.
Next day, when the motorhome was ready, I went over to the dealer. I walked
in from the parking lot by the two lifts, my motorhome was on one, but next
to it, on its side, was another brand new motor home, severely crushed. The
event had just happened, and people were running around like chickens. The
mechanic had lifted the motorhome, and it fallen off from nearly full height
on its side, fortunately, away from my motorhome. Quite a scene.
Jerry Oliver
Olympia, WA.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>
To: <Herald948@aol.com>
Cc: <pethier@isd.net>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: TR4 jacking
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>
> Herald948@aol.com wrote:
>
> > If you've had a car come off of a jack or jackstands or any other
support
> > either ON or even NEAR you, you'll know it is an experience you'll not
want
> > to repeat.
>
> One of our trainers was apparently witness to something even better than
> that... a 27,000 lb. bus coming off a lift from a height of about five
> feet, in the garage of a rather large midwestern customer, which shall
> remain nameless for the time being. Let us simply say that it slid
> forward and down, and two people rather narrowly escaped being crushed
> between a mechanic's toolbox set and a concrete wall.
>
> The greater tragedy apparently was not the loss of the bus, but, rather,
> the loss of the toolboxes, which were well-flattened--in that garage,
> each mechanic had a set of boxes--one for tools, one for kitchen
> appliances and cooking utensils and one for the sound system.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
>
> Michael D. Porter
> Roswell, NM
> [mailto: mporter@zianet.com]
>
> `70 GT6+ (being refurbished, slowly)
> `71 GT6 Mk. III (organ donor)
> `72 GT6 Mk. III (daily driver)
> `64 TR4 (awaiting intensive care)
> `80 TR7 (3.8 liter Buick-powered)
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