Just got back from the ER where they put 4 staples in my head. I was helping a buddy some new A arms and shackles on his rig. Got the front end done and went to put the shackles on the back. Figured I would just use the Hi-Lift in the tow hitch to jack up the back end and change out the shackles. So I get down and start wreching on the shackle bolts and the thing fell over and the jack nailed me in the top of the head.

I should have known better. I saw that the truck wasn't that stable to start with and I should have just taken the extra couple of minutes to put it on stands.

Got 11 stitches in my forehead and one in my eyelid on thursday, threw my saw up on the log truck to cut a burl off of one and it came back down and cut me open...

Know how ya feel

YOU ADMIT TO THAT:confused: Thats realy using your head...:flipoff2:
glad your ok though...

Originally posted by tealj2
YOU ADMIT TO THAT:confused: Thats realy using your head...:flipoff2:
glad your ok though...

Yeah, not too smart. Hoping somebody else might learn from my stupidity. Fat chance of that happening though.:flipoff2:

Last year there was a military employee in Ventura County that was working on his car with just a jack supporting it in the driveway. Car fell on him and he died!
:eek:
When I was a bit younger, I was working on a Toyota Corolla in my friends driveway. The car was on an angle without blocks, jackstands, and with me under the driver side. Car rolled backwards and ran me over going from the right armpit to the top of my shoulder :( I was watching the tire coming towards my head. Scared the shiat outta me and I picked the left front of the car up and rolled out from under it, somehow! I still am impressed at the adrenaline charge :p
Danny

Originally posted by axle59
........... Figured I would just use the Hi-Lift in the tow hitch to jack up the back end and change out the shackles. ...........
yeah don't do that. get well.:p

I still get paranoid being under my truck if it's not on all 4 tires. When I put my truck up on stands, I keep a jack under it supporting the axles, and I put tires under the body. I'll grab the bumpers or sides and shake the hell out of the truck trying to get it to fall off the stands. If they appear unstable, I'll adjust the stands until they are placed solid and stable under the truck. After I get under it, I try to be careful to shake the truck as little as possible. If the truck is up on a jack only, I won't get under it at all, even with a saftey pin in the jack.

hi lift = evil!!! I will never ever trust one!

You ain't getting any smarter if you keep whacking yourself in the head. It's all downhill from here.

Originally posted by JeepinDoug
You ain't getting any smarter if you keep whacking yourself in the head. It's all downhill from here.

His level of stupidity was already dropping before this incident. It's just the proof that some of us needed...

Originally posted by Pazuzu


His level of stupidity was already dropping before this incident. It's just the proof that some of us needed...

Leval of stoopidty dropin? that meens I em getin more smarter right?:flipoff2:

When me and my brother brought a Hi lift home, my old man (who is not into vehicals or wrenching or anything like that) said:

"Don't you dare use that thing unless you have to, it will slip and bust your head open"

And that was about all me and my old man have ever talked about wheeling. and he was right


JYS

I had my 4runner up with a hi-lift and a bottle jack, changing the rear differential. (2 jacks supporting the vehicle so I'm good, right? I was leaning into the wheel well, my chest against the tire and my head looking over the tire as I replaced the brake line. I guess I leaned on it a little too hard, because it fell sideways off the jacks and away from my head, as the tire was going back up in the wheel well. As it fell away from me it pinned my head between the tire and the lip of the wheel well, but only scraped a bit of skin off of my chin. Had I not put some lift shakles on earlier I could have gotten my jaw / skull crushed. "absolutely scared the shit out of me" doesn't even begin to describe how I felt.

Support a truck with a hi-lift or any other questionable means? ...not by the skin of my chinny chin chin :flipoff2: ...yea ok that was pretty lame, nobody quote that:p

a good friend of mine and her dad got a double flat when they were in Italy a couple weeks ago. they were traveling with another car, which happened to be of the same make and model. since they had 2 jacks, her dad mistakingly took both wheels off (this is off the passenger side). Well, to make a short story even shorter, one of the jacks gave up and the front brake rotor fell on his hand. with the weight of the whole car. her dad, an experienced doctor, was aparantly quite calm through the whole event despite the fact that he had 4 fingers hanging from his hand. luckily it was one of those small POS european cars and the other people were able to lift it off his hand.

on a good note, italy has public health insurance or whatever so it didnt cost him a dime and aparantly the doctors were very good. They were able to reattach all 4 fingers although only 2 of them reacting well to the reattachment. Yummy. Ive got pictures although im not sure they are appropriate. :)

I hate when cars fall on me:rolleyes: it like totally sucks you know

Originally posted by Drunk tank
hi lift = evil!!! I will never ever trust one!

I will jump out of perfectly good airplanes but I will never use a high lift.

Heard of fingers and even eyes missing because of them.

Sorry man I don't feel sorry for you what the HELL were you thinking. :rolleyes:

Hi-Lifts are jinxed on their way out of the factory:goofball: But on the other hand I've pushed or driven it off the jack more times than I could ever remember. So sometimes the jinxed Hi-Lifts sketchy nature can be usefull.

I've pushed or driven it off the jack more times than I could ever remember

Thats funny, when I need to push a truck off my hi lift it somehow takes on a errie super-stability and is impossible to topple:eek:

JYS

Originally posted by Rev. Parsley
Hi-Lifts are jinxed on their way out of the factory:goofball: But on the other hand I've pushed or driven it off the jack more times than I could ever remember. So sometimes the jinxed Hi-Lifts sketchy nature can be usefull.

Ah yes... the hi-lift stories. Gotta love em. I can count the times I've done similarly stupid stunts with my 60" hi-lift. While I don't like using them, you just have to in some cases.

Glad to hear someone ELSES story to put it all back in perspective. Maybe it will make me think twice the next time I got to grab the hi-lift when working in the driveway.... :rolleyes: