Wooden jack stands

Agreed.

He does have a block of stone or cinderblock behind the rear wheel, and *hopefully* he has another in front of the front wheel.

Once you have the thing tilted enough, it takes a lot less force to keep it tilted. I think that it is to the point where it will have at least 1/3 the load on the 4x4s than it would if more nearly upright. That is in part because some of the weight is now on the other side of the contact pont of the tires on the road.

The thing which I would most worry about would be knocking the

And if he *is* welding that close to a fuel tank, that is seriously worrying.

Well ... there were at least two other people handy -- one with the camera, and the other who is casting the shadow coming in from the lower left-hand corner. I suspect that there can be a half dozen or more at a call -- who could bounce the side until it got far enough up to be lifted to the balance point, and then lowered onto the 4x4s.

Enjoy, DoN.

How about a '49 VW Beetle rolled over on it's side in the front yard to pull the nose off the tranny to pull a broken shifter? Shifted from 1st to 2nd leaving the school one friday evening - the car stayed in 1st. Drove it home figuring the linkage under the rear seat had separated. Found out the linkage into the trans was moving just fine. Took off both wheels on one side, grabbed 2 wooden posts, and pitched it right over on it's side. After fixing it, we just gave it a push and rolled it back on it's wheels. Jacked up the other side and re-installed the wheels, pulled the plugs from the cyls that were pointed down, cranked it to clear the hydraulic lock, then proceded to kill half the mosquitoes in southern Zambia.

It may not be his system clock. Intermediate servers can also cause this. It's pretty common on the internet and usenet. Frequently replies are seen well before the original post shows up. The original message may have been delayed somewhere on it's way to you, and not reached your computer until after the reply, which likely came by a different route. I've also seen posting times changed along the way, for whatever reason.

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Tim Williams wrote:

That cinder block looked like it would scoot instead of block the wheel.

Just behind his right elbow, from the shadow next to his butt.

Don, I live in earthquake country and that setup would have come down so fast if the earth did any movement that the guy would have never known what hit him. Even in the other parts of the country, all it would take is a heavy truck going by to shake that truck down - just the concrete delivery truck for that neighbor down the street who is putting in a patio in his backyard will do just fine. Better would be to spend a few moments cutting those timbers, bolting and blocking them together on the frame and working underneath the truck. Tilting that truck up like that and not insuring that the timbers have a good solid stop to keep them from moving is really stupid.

His life, his choice, his death. Stupid or not, he appears to me to be doing the "It's gotta get done somehow, and this is the only way currently available, so I'll use it" thing.

True as this may be, I've only seen posts appearing in that order when Charter/Supernews is having a *really* bad day. And they (well...at least Supernews) rarely do. In this case the posts appeared on time but with an incorrectly stamped OP.

Tim

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It was in the dropbox:

Thanks a bunch John, thats he one.

There are things which you just don't do and that is one of them! Ain't no way that I'm getting under such a setup.