please read...everyone JACKSTANDS!

[theSicKness]

Youch

get a rolling jack!

hope it heals good


Jesse

 

[Defiant]

Accidents don't care how much experience you have.

Heal up quick.

 

[ldstang50]

ouch sorry to see that man. heal up and get back on the ivory keys

 

[spyder97gs]

Sorry to hear that man.

I had a 3 ton craftsman jack that just suddenly gave out about two weeks ago. Thank god I had jack stands under the car and wasn't under there. I took it to sears and was irate with them. They looked it up and it had been discontinued. They replaced it free of charge nonetheless.

 

[Tsar]

Ohh shit!
Next time be more careful, and i hope it heals well Good luck

 

[Jay123]

Roll around you'll be ight

 

[Hughes]

WTF Sick dude, absolutely sick. Hey I like piano! Good luck brother you should get ya some Flintstones bandaids or some Barney ones or something.

 

[ZachM31]

gross dude.. looks like my finger one time when i had a moldboard plow fall on my middle finger ...not the whole plow, just this part. (we were taking it apart, and the old man kicked it, and i was going to pull on it)

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this is a bit different from our plow, ours was a manual trip reset (stop, back up with it in the ground, it snaps back in place, lift it up, and take off and put it back in the ground) so its more complex than this one.

 

[Superbeast406]

The age has nothing to do with it. My father is a mechanic, my Brother-in-law was a mechanic (and local hot-rodder) when I was a teenager, and all my friends in high school were gearheads. I've been working on my own cars since I got one for my 15th birthday. Its the tools, the experience and the brains, and without the brains experience means nothing. My father could leave me alone in the driveway and not worry about me because he taught me well. I was pulling tranny swaps in my El Camino (killed 3) at 17 years old in my driveway. The funny thing is, he's the one who came close to being crushed by a car at the junkyard one day. The guy who taught me to be safe overlooked something himself. The car was supported with old steel wheels and wood. Guess what, it slipped off. The worst part was it was closing time for the junkyard, my dad thought he was done for. After about 10 minutes of screaming somebody finally heard him. He got lucky, most of the weight was still being supported by the steel wheels on the other end and the bumper in the dirt. He's a tough guy, his chest was just bruised for a few weeks. Things like this make me happy I work in a shop with the right tools and equipment (usually). My condolances to the family, but you should have taught your kid better.
Even cars with wheels still on them can be dangerous....when they have hydraulics. A guy at my work lost a brother to a bad pressure solenoid. He crawled underneath his truck to hook up a battery charger (takes like 10 seconds right), the pressure let out while he was underneath. Jackstands are a necessity to anyone who crawls underneath a 3000lb hunk of metal. If you don't know that, you shouldn't be under there.

 

[Eclipsed]

IM suprised noone brought these pics back to life to call me stupid,

cinder blocks and ninja prowess.

I always have someting else under the car too, if it was too fall, it would land on it and not kill me as bad.

I grew up around a family that used tree stumps, logs, blocks of wood, ect ect.
I bought jackstands and someone stole them, never had any prob with the ol cement blocks.

they arent your average blocks tho, about 65 lbs apiece




my condolences to the family.

must be how you got so buff. moving those blocks around.

 

[shpyder]

What sad, sad news, and my heartfelt sincerest condolences to the family. Working on cars isn't a joke. There are life threatening dangers when working around cars, and people still forget to take them seriously. I still remember how one story stuck in my mind: our autoshop instructor would tell us horrifying things he'd seen in his years...one of them was when a kid actually shoved up a compressor gun up his classfellows backside and pulled the trigger. The kids internals exploded and he died on the spot. Yeah, then its not funny any more. Working on cars is serious damn business, DSM or no DSM. I just hope we all learn from this and realize that there must never be any shortcuts taken that even potentially compromise safety. Sigh... poor kid

 

[halligoo]

Attached is an alternative to jackstands in Glorious Galt.

 

[TJGoSurf]

Doesnt that look like a gas tank he is welding on?

I had my RX-7 fall off the jackstands on me. Thank god it was an FB, I heard it start to scrape. Might as well do something about being hurt than just letting it happen. So I threw my arms up and pushed it back up on the stands. I love 2200lb cars.

 

[halligoo]

At least he put a rock under the tire.

 

[Superbeast406]

Holy crap, if the exploding gas tank doesn't kill him the falling truck will! This guys doomed!

 

[big_eskimo]

That's very sad man, I don't have kids or anything but I couldn't imagine coming home to my son/daughter being smothered/crushed to death sitting under their car. I've been around cars pretty much my whole life and seen a lot of family friends with missing fingers/eyes/limbs from various accidents and definately learned to be careful from the looks of them. Where I really learned how to be safe around cars though is when I was in shop in high school, I took auto shop for three years and we weren't allowed to be under a car/lift without the lift locks in place or jackstands under the car and our instructor had inspected them himself. I'm really glad that he was a big influence on me because to this day unless I'm stranded and I have to just rely on a jack I ALWAYS use jackstands or liftlocks. There's no excuse not to unless your 40 miles from nowhere trying to fix a flat or something.

 

[92_75i]

HOLY THREAD FROM THE DEAD.... this was posted last year....

 

[big_eskimo]

HOLY THREAD FROM THE DEAD.... this was posted last year....

Is it against the rules to post in an old thread?

 

[boosted_91_tsi]

Not only do I use jackstands and the jack and the chocks but I always have a phone within arms reach while working on the car. I have heard too many stories to risk it.

 

[aero_sallee]

I knew a guy in my very small hometown that died this way. Left two very small children. Ever since then I always use two backups whenever I put anything buy an arm underneath my car. Jackstands + log, a wheel or anything that will hold the weight and keep it high enough to keep it from crushing me.

 

[AW4G63]

Damn shame.

All it takes is for the car to slip off that jack right in front of you one time and you realize that jack stands have always been a good idea.

Not to be a dick, here, but 1) Why was a 16 year allowed to be working on a turbo DSM by himself? And 2) Why wasn't he using stands? If you ask me, it's definitely sad, but it speaks to issues in our culture. I know that I won't be letting my 16 year old son have a fast car until he's proven himself capable of handling it (I think that would mean a year of autoX or similar experience), and furthermore, there's no way in hell a child should be doing anything under a car without an experienced adult or, at the very least, a buddy who's not an idiot.

Just me and my whitebread, old-fashioned ways. :shrug

How do you know he wasn't more then capable of that? If he was doing something with the tranny alone I'm guess he was no fool or maybe just curious and learning.

I had a friend when I was 15, he was 13 and built a 350, put it in a datsunand it was nicer them nearly anyone else shit. When i was 16 I was welding and working on tons of shit. Background is what bases your skill level. Not "being able to handle" a 180hp car.


It's a shame and I see people all the time using Jacks. What fools. All it takes is one seal to blow and you're dead.

 

[AW4G63]

Attached is an alternative to jackstands in Glorious Galt.

That's my most favorite pic ever.

 

[Kanda]

Where the stands are placed are as important as using them at all. If they are put in the wrong location they will provide little if any protection. The floors of older cars are weak from rust or design. Be sure to place the stands under a secure lift point of the automobile. Or you may just find your car sitting on the driveway with holes in the bottom and jackstands inside the car.

BTW. There is no age limit on stupid, either high or low!

Work safe, live long.

 

[JackalUO]

2000 lb ramps (2 of them)
2 1/4 ton jack

All for 35.00, should I get it? or at least the ramps? Is it enough to support the back or front end of my DSM (stupid question).

 

[1gGstKid]

2000 lb ramps (2 of them)
2 1/4 ton jack

All for 35.00, should I get it? or at least the ramps? Is it enough to support the back or front end of my DSM (stupid question).

Get the stands. I dont see why you would need the ramps. I always put my car up on stands.