Neighbor Lost His Life Sat. Night, Common Sense P.S.A.

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Guy 4 houses up from My House across the street lost His life working on His late'90's-early'00's Ford Ranger Saturday Night , found *EDIT; by His Sister* Sunday morning, used shallow embankment as nature-made ramps. No applied/operative parking brakes, no blocks or wheel chocks, rolled & pinned....
 
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According to what I've heard about it, PA State Trooper found wrench & nut under truck, Victim's Nephew stated He was going to change an O2 sensor. It appears He wished to get the shift cable out of His way, not sure if He took the bolt & stud nut off to move braket & cable w/the end still attached to trans control lever & accidently tugged it out of park, or was trying to remove lever from control shaft 1st & accidently knocked it out tapping/prying on the lever.....those get really corroded once those Fords get old.
Either way, Chester was an OK Dude, but paid the ultimate price for a moment of carelessness.
 
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Killer6 said:
According to what I've heard about it, PA State Trooper found wrench & nut under truck, Victim's Nephew (who I believe found Him) stated He was going to change an O2 sensor. It appears He wished to get the shift cable out of His way, not sure if He took the bolt & stud nut off to move braket & cable w/the end still attached to trans control lever & accidently tugged it out of park, or was trying to remove lever from control shaft 1st & accidently knocked it out tapping/prying on the lever.....those get really corroded once those Fords get old.
Either way, Chester was an OK Dude, but paid the ultimate price for a moment of carelessness.
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Damn, That could happen so easily.
 
He was 64 years old, I got My finger caught in a bench grinder July last year, trimming a workpiece up. Had the rest moved out & angled for My mower blades, left a big enough gap when the piece grabbed & rolled to suck My index finger in, 45yrs of using buffing/wire/grinding & I wait 'til I'm 58 to pull that stunt.
We're never too old to do something 'toopid, hence this post, be careful out there.
 
I cut the tip of my index finger off on a meat slicer trying to get that last thin slice, should have used the guard.
Oh well the tip grew back. lol
 
my mother in law always said "it better to lose a moment of your life then to lose your life in a moment"
she'd usually mutter it under her breath while i was driving and trying to make good time, but ive found it applies to many areas of life

how often do we use a jack instead of jackstands?
"ill only be under there for a minute, ill be fine"

sad to hear your neighbour didnt get away with it
 
diymirage said:
my mother in law always said "it better to lose a moment of your life then to lose your life in a moment"
she'd usually mutter it under her breath while i was driving and trying to make good time, but ive found it applies to many areas of life

how often do we use a jack instead of jackstands?
"ill only be under there for a minute, ill be fine"

sad to hear your neighbour didnt get away with it
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Ask my buddy Brad. He is damn lucky to be alive. Use those jack stands.

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diymirage said:
wow...how is that even physically possible?

maybe a dumb question, but did he seem like the same person afterwards?
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I haven't talked to him since. He is still working on cars at his home shop as far as I know. He was using one of those old Walker bumper jacks on a pickup from what I understand. I didn't hear what happened other than he wasn't using stands and the jack somehow failed when he was underneath.
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toolmanmike said:
I haven't talked to him since. He is still working on cars at his home shop as far as I know. He was using one of those old Walker bumper jacks on a pickup from what I understand. I didn't hear what happened other than he wasn't using stands and the jack somehow failed when he was underneath. View attachment 1716462881
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Wow! I used to use one like that, but I always put stands under as well, got suspended in high school shops class for not using them, learned my lesson right then.
 
Late early 90s to late 90s I worked with a guy. He said he was putting a used transmission in over weekend. I asked if he wanted my jack stands and floor jack. He says nope I got it.
Monday came we found out he died.
He had an older chrome bumper car like we now all have and call classic.
He used 4 old bumper Jack's one each end. Got his transmission all unbolted and disconnected. Could not get out. Got help from his uncle. They pulled light tug. Nope not out so pulled harder and the car over on themselves. Killed um both.
 
340six said:
Late early 90s to late 90s I worked with a guy. He said he was putting a used transmission in over weekend. I asked if he wanted my jack stands and floor jack. He says nope I got it.
Monday came we found out he died.
He had an older chrome bumper car like we now all have and call classic.
He used 4 old bumper Jack's one each end. Got his transmission all unbolted and disconnected. Could not get out. Got help from his uncle. They pulled light tug. Nooe not out so pulled harder and the car over on themselves. Killed um both.
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Damn. Bumper jacks are the worst.
 
My then 19 year old stepson had his 73 Duster 340 in my garage, trying to remove the rear axle assembly so he could take it somewhere to put a Sure Grip in it.

He came in a while later, cussing, saying that he thought it would be an easy job with my impact wrench, but it would hardly turn the u-bolt nuts. So I went down to have a look see. He was using jack stands, but he had them UNDER THE AXLE HE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE. :BangHead: So, of course, the full weight of the car was on the u-bolts. No wonder they were hard to turn. Thank goodness he didn't actually get them off. . . .
 
When I was in the Navy, NAS Miramar, San Diego, I had a part time paying job at the base auto hobby shop. One day I came in, went out into the yard to look around at activity, and here's a kid under a 57 Chev. You all remember the big bumper "tits" on those. Here he was, feet sticking out, and a bumper jack jammed up against each bumper tit, and not a jackstand in sight. I went over, grabbed him by his ankles, and yanked him out of there. He wanted to fight. He was in dungarees, and had no "crow", so I knew he was only E2-E3. I was E5. I told him, "you have no idea what and who I am, but I know what you are. I can fix it so you cannot come in here. You have two choices---either go up to the tool room and check out a pair of jackstands, or pick up and get out of here."

So he went and got jackstands. Thing is, back then, you payed a nominal amount to get in there, but you could check out all kinds of tools, free. When you got your stall, you got a ring of about 10 or 12 tags with your stall number. You just went up to the tool room and told them what you wanted. We had wrench sets or socket sets on a board, 2 or 3 floor jacks, and lots of jack stands
 
Killer6 said:
He was 64 years old, I got My finger caught in a bench grinder July last year, trimming a workpiece up. Had the rest moved out & angled for My mower blades, left a big enough gap when the piece grabbed & rolled to suck My index finger in, 45yrs of using buffing/wire/grinding & I wait 'til I'm 58 to pull that stunt.
We're never too old to do something 'toopid, hence this post, be careful out there.
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This is what I like about the cheap bench grinders & polishers at Harbor Freight. They stop when too much torque is applied. Saved my azz several times, especially the $50 dollar polisher.
Fellow Polisher bought one of the high dollar, hi-torque polishers and I told him he would regret it.
Months later he went back to the HF Cheepee stuff after he injured his wrist bad one weekend, getting pulled into the polisher...that did not turn off until he hit the switch.
But the real loss was the customers 67 NOS Coronet Surround he contorted into a pretzel. :BangHead:

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I was looking through some old pictures that my granddaddy had from the 50s and he had a car jacked up about 4 ft in the air with pallets and had the K member and motor coming out from under the bottom of the chassis and I was thinking wow how dangerous that is I guess everybody risked their life in the old days
 
Brings back good/bad memories, in 1968 I bought my first car, a '61 Dodge Phoenix convertible with a bad engine. We used bumper jacks and scissor jacks. And as "jack stands" I remember going to a building supply store and buying 4 cinder blocks! Also we used lots of 2 x 4s and 4 x 4s! The other thing I bought were the stamped steel jack stands. I still have them but they are more for old time sake than actual use! In 1972 I was working at a dealer and we had a regular Snap On and a Mac Tool dealers stopping by every week. Being a Mopar guy and knowing somewhere along the line I would have Imperials I bought a set of 5,000 pound jack stands and a 2 1/4 ton Hein-Werner floor jack. Same thing when I bought my car trailer, it's 10,000 lb. gross. When you're dealing with 6,000 lb. cars a 7500 lb. trailer doesn't make it! When I put the Max back on the road I had the jack rebuilt and put it in the trunk with one of the jack stands. I had been using the floor jack in my vans and when it wore out I bought a Hein-Werner 2 1/2 ton for the van and yes, I also carry one of the jack stands in the van.
 
toolmanmike said:
I haven't talked to him since. He is still working on cars at his home shop as far as I know. He was using one of those old Walker bumper jacks on a pickup from what I understand. I didn't hear what happened other than he wasn't using stands and the jack somehow failed when he was underneath. View attachment 1716462881
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That's a kinda flimsy lookin' version of the pneumatic ones We had at the private shop I worked at, and they had beefy locks that automatically engaged, you had to manually hold them released the entire time you set them down.
 
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