Wow

[David Griffith 2]

 

[Bob McDonald]

Wow is right. Good thing his buddy stopped by and he went over to the other side to talk with him.



I wonder what actually failed on the hoist.

 

[Jerry Gerner 2]

Hopefully that's his truck or he's goona have a huge lawsuit against him. I couldn't tell if they messed with something on the driverside to make it fall.

 

[Bob McDonald]

Upon watching closely a second time, it looks like he had just operated the valve to lower the truck. It started to go down and then just fell.



I suspect the had placed the support pads precariously to give himself more room to work on the exhaust system and cut it too close and the jostle of the start down knocked it off the pads.



Unless he can point to a metal fatigue failure, I think it was his fault.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

It is an old-style pit type lift. If I had to guess, the swing arm simply failed. It could have been the flip-up extender as well. Like if it was not flipped far enough and it popped down setting the entire event in motion...



It happened pretty slow, he probably would have been safe no matter what. But I do agree, being on the other side was a good place to be..

 

[Robert Caffyn]

I just have to wonder.... was it "staged" or photoshopped or something? I mean, yeah, the guy is pretty lucky, but something ain't right. Looks like he is doing exhaust work on that type of lift, wouldn't it make sense that it could be difficult, if not impossible to get at the parts with the lift in the way? JMO, Bob

 

[Tom Schindler]

Being someone that was within 30 seconds of having a vehicle fall on me, this is something that is very serious. No matter how safe something is, no matter how secure you made it, no matter how stable it is, you must ALWAYS be on your toes when working under any type of load.



Even though it has been over 3 months, I still have nightmares about it. I am sure these guys do too.





Tom

 

[Kevin Palmer]

About 20 yrs ago I was in the back of a Firebird working with the upper bolt of a strut while the guys under the lift worked on the lower bolts.



We had a tall screw jack holing up the rear end so when I removed the inside bolts it wouldn't move and cause any damage to lines and what not.



Well, the guys got done with the lower stuff so my dad decided to lower the car. I guess he didn't see the screw jack. As you can imagine, once the suspension to the point it wanted to hold the car up, the rear of the car stopped going down but the front did not.



By the time he realized something was seriously wrong, the car was already slipping off the front of the rack.



Needless to say it was a wild ride in the back of the Firebird for me......

 

[EddieS'04]

Reminds me of the idiot at pep-boys. When I got my new tires. I had to stop the guy from lifting my trac from the rocker panels,DUH. That was after he asked me where to lift it from, DUH. I told him the frame. I guess he didnt know the difference.

Then they damaged all four wheels. Placed them face down and replaced the tires from the backside, Dumasses. PB paid to replace the wheels. Im just waiting till enkei get them in stock.

 

[Mark Stadnicki]

I'll admit I forgot to put wheel chocks in and my ST rolled out the garage door and down the driveway on the floor jack with no rear wheels on. Scared the bageezus out of me.

 

[Gary DiPietroSr]

A good friend of mine wasn't so lucky. He was working on his car at his father's service garage that had an old outside lift. Well, the safety failed and the car fell on him and he's been a paraplegic since. He was 16 at the time, he's 56 now. He made the best of it and it never kept from doing a lot of things.