cars falling off jacks onto people

china · Post by **china** » July 10th, 2009, 3:33 pm

hey guys yesterday i was tightening my tailshaft bolts and my mate lent into the car to take it out of gear and BAM ef falcon sitting on my chest rear swaybar mount stabing me between my ribs.
i was suprised that me and a mate couldnt bent press the arse end of my car.

has any1 else been in that situation.

SnyperEB · Post by **SnyperEB** » July 10th, 2009, 3:35 pm

Mate you should be in hospital or dead.

holmsy · Post by **holmsy** » July 10th, 2009, 3:40 pm

if ya stupid enough not to use chassis stands its your own fault.
ya lucky mate.

if ya wer using stands then that just bad luck ey.

stav50 · Post by **stav50** » July 10th, 2009, 3:54 pm

wow. lucky mother fucker.
get stands or ramps and be more careful when changing gear!

Dansedgli · Post by **Dansedgli** » July 10th, 2009, 3:56 pm

china wrote: has any1 else been in that situation.

lol most people realise 1500kg of car is gonna be hurty so they take the appropriate safety measures when lying underneath them.

travs ea-xr6 · Post by **travs ea-xr6** » July 10th, 2009, 4:02 pm

so did the whole ass end of the car fall on ya, how did you get it off you.
the whole weight of the car must not of been on ya chest because it would crsh your chest flat.
pics of your bruzed ribs,man your chest must look wrecked

vulpine · Post by **vulpine** » July 10th, 2009, 5:22 pm

i think its stated clearly in the users guide not to do what you did.
Due to people usually being dead after it happens, There probably isnt many people on here who have done it.
Get a lotto ticket asap

BLC · Post by **BLC** » July 10th, 2009, 7:20 pm

everytime i read a thread with you in it, china, I can't hjelp but visualise michael caine saying " me old china" .............

irrelevant i know but **** it

Nardz27 · Post by **Nardz27** » July 10th, 2009, 7:40 pm

one time, me and a fellow worker had a land rover on a 2-post hoist and were trying to get some rubber ring sorta thingy off the driveshaft that acts like a uni joint. We had to jack the diff up so it was easier to get the bolts out and ring off.
so we got a floor jack and a pole,then put the pole on the bottom of the diff and started jacking the diff up. the diff was jacked up to about 3/4 of full suspension travel, and then all of a sudden the pole slipped out of the jack, and dropped the diff and rocked the absolute **** out of the car on the hoist and I was standing directly underneath it. so lucky that it stayed up on that hoist(the only thing holding the car is 4 arms on the seals).

so yeah..that was my near death experience. Probly didnt make sense but yeah.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » July 10th, 2009, 7:45 pm

NEVER get under a car without at least some blocks of wood to stop the car from falling if the jack fails.

Buy some safety stands, super cheap sell some them for like $50 or less.

Nikk O'lass · Post by **Nikk O'lass** » July 10th, 2009, 8:07 pm

Jake wrote:

NEVER get under a car without at least some blocks of wood to stop the car from falling if the jack fails.

Buy some safety stands, super cheap sell some them for like $50 or less.

Fail, wood is not reliable!

Jake · Post by **Jake** » July 10th, 2009, 8:30 pm

I guess I could of said that better, I meant if you really really need to work under a car cos you were stuck and don't have safety stands around, get some decent pieces of wood and stack them up as a minimum, don't just use nothing... make sure its stable etc and keep both the jack and the wood there... I didn't mean use them instead of safety stands which someone could of thought I meant.....

I've had to do it before, wood is better than nothing at all

And safety stands are a lot safer.

Phillis · Post by **Phillis** » July 10th, 2009, 11:20 pm

if i lift my car up and take the front or back wheels off, i always lay the wheels under the side skirts of the car. if the jack/stands fail, car falls onto a rim. fucks the rim, but at least im around to bitch about it happening.

boostedbb · Post by **boostedbb** » July 10th, 2009, 11:29 pm

there was one time something similar happened not to that extreme but me and a mate had the ass end of an xf off the ground 'on stands' we were replacing diff i was on passanger side with legs under the car when the stand actualy broke i some how pulled my leg back so it was just beside the diff under the whhel arch so nothing crushed it but with the angle i was on the prick of a thing split my eyebrow and gave me a black eye

Frost · Post by **Frost** » July 10th, 2009, 11:37 pm

vulpine wrote:i think its stated clearly in the users guide not to do what you did.
Due to people usually being dead after it happens, There probably isnt many people on here who have done it.
Get a lotto ticket asap

Why get a lotto ticket, im sure he's used up all the luck he will ever have.

bushman · Post by **bushman** » July 10th, 2009, 11:40 pm

Nikk O'lass wrote:
Jake wrote:

NEVER get under a car without at least some blocks of wood to stop the car from falling if the jack fails.

Buy some safety stands, super cheap sell some them for like $50 or less.
Fail, wood is not reliable!

WOOD SAVED ME SOME BROKEN RIBS

When i was replacing my clutch we had the front wheels on car ramps and axle stands under the car with the rear wheels off under the car too for some added security. My old man has some peices of hardwood timber that are about 75x250x300
all was good while the car was on stands but when we were lowering it down, with the wheels on of course (threw a spare under the car for some peice of mind) and had the timber under the tires one peice either side, the diff slide off the jack while i was under the rear bar. the big white bitch came down and landed on the peices of timber thank **** and the spare while it only got me by the car compressing the suspension with the sudden drop the towball and rear bar got me a beauty and made me quite sore for a few days. once i relised i wasn't dead i shuffled out from the rear bar and proceded kick the rear bar only once though. scared me, scared my m8 more and completly scared the **** out of his gf now if we are jacking up a car she wont hang around.
It pays to have some decent sized blocks of hardwood timber under your tires when lowering back down it might just save you a visit to the hospital

iliov · Post by **iliov** » July 11th, 2009, 3:09 am

tried lifting the whole front of my car on the jack supplied with the car. Jack snapped but luckily i had the tyres sitting under the car

Bomber · Post by **Bomber** » July 11th, 2009, 8:27 am

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vegabass · Post by **vegabass** » July 11th, 2009, 8:47 am

In rescue its a saying that you "pack as you jack" we use very sturdy hard wood timber in a square formation.

Doesnt matter what method of jacking were doing E.g Air bags, Hydrolic, or mechanical we always pack.

oneredED · Post by **oneredED** » July 11th, 2009, 9:52 am

I had a scissor jack collapse under the ED as I was putting an axle stand under it, but only got the stand halfway so it pushed up through the floor. I had grazes on my arm from the sill falling down onto it as i pulled my arm out quick as a flash. My car was very very low at the time, I was very very lucky.

china · Post by **china** » July 18th, 2009, 3:39 pm

Phillis wrote:if i lift my car up and take the front or back wheels off, i always lay the wheels under the side skirts of the car. if the jack/stands fail, car falls onto a rim. fucks the rim, but at least im around to bitch about it happening.

i didnt take the wheel off i was tightening the tailshaft other wise no more me.

china · Post by **china** » July 18th, 2009, 3:45 pm

i was useing a 1500kg workshop trollyjack lucky for me im not a big person otherwise it would hav been worse. about the lotto ticket me and the mate that droped my car on me went up the local pub and pulled out over a grand on the pokies. but yesterday luck ran out got pulled up by sergent dickface and got told if they see me driveing they r gonna take my car.

gotta love em

Malakai · Post by **Malakai** » July 18th, 2009, 5:21 pm

The fairlane?

Post by **TUFED6** » July 18th, 2009, 7:18 pm

I've had one of those scissor jacks fail. Luckily it happened in slow motion and I managed to get out the way.

Went and bought a trolley jack the next day.

wicksy · Post by **wicksy** » July 19th, 2009, 7:55 am

i had car stands collaspe on me while under the car, i left prettu quick hahah

china · Post by **china** » July 19th, 2009, 4:36 pm

Malakai wrote:The fairlane?

no my ef if it was the fairlane id b fucked its got ultra lows i only hav lows and my ribs are all bruised now.

EvLmOnT · Post by **EvLmOnT** » July 19th, 2009, 4:55 pm

on my old car the jack broke, we wernt under it we were trying to wedge it up somehow cause my mate forgot stands, we had a certain time limit so i grabed my dads fork lift and used it with blocks of wood and raised the front up :S worked a treat though lol i have a pic ill find it.

bushman · Post by **bushman** » July 19th, 2009, 10:15 pm

Gotta love forklifts

but i don't like the idea of using bricks the buggers can crumple on you or crack.

EvLmOnT · Post by **EvLmOnT** » July 19th, 2009, 10:33 pm

yer they were just incase the forks failed

better with something there then nothing

bushman · Post by **bushman** » July 19th, 2009, 10:38 pm

Most definatly true,
V8 supercar style air jacks anyone??

lowghia · Post by **lowghia** » July 20th, 2009, 12:59 am

china wrote:hey guys yesterday i was tightening my tailshaft bolts and my mate lent into the car to take it out of gear and BAM ef falcon sitting on my chest rear swaybar mount stabing me between my ribs.
i was suprised that me and a mate couldnt bent press the arse end of my car.

has any1 else been in that situation.

axel stands???

silly, silly..

Post by **Bipolar** » July 20th, 2009, 1:28 am

I've been under my EL on stands as I watched one under Gozza's car fail. In the first instance I thought "I'm gettin' the fark outta here!" but after a couple of seconds I thought I'd be pretty unlucky for two to fail in a few minutes, so I stayed and kept working.

china · Post by **china** » July 20th, 2009, 9:37 pm

lowghia wrote:
china wrote:hey guys yesterday i was tightening my tailshaft bolts and my mate lent into the car to take it out of gear and BAM ef falcon sitting on my chest rear swaybar mount stabing me between my ribs.
i was suprised that me and a mate couldnt bent press the arse end of my car.

has any1 else been in that situation.

axel stands???

silly, silly..

na kinda on the side of the road fix i got pissed off with the shutter of loose tailshaft and im lucky i carry two jacks its just easyer to use the workshop 1.

china · Post by **china** » July 20th, 2009, 9:38 pm

EvLmOnT wrote:on my old car the jack broke, we wernt under it we were trying to wedge it up somehow cause my mate forgot stands, we had a certain time limit so i grabed my dads fork lift and used it with blocks of wood and raised the front up :S worked a treat though lol i have a pic ill find it.

would hav been handy if i had 1

Dumpsta · Post by **Dumpsta** » July 20th, 2009, 9:43 pm

A guy was killed locally here this year when the jack let go and crushed him.. Cant be too careful... bring out the hard hats and orange vests ..

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