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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: tjolliffe on January 08, 2008, 20:35:31
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Thought you guys might appreciate this. Had to change the rear diff on my 90 and dont have a vehicle lift in the workshop :-k ......So we came up this alternative ....... :D
(http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v185/120/90/503281383/n503281383_344816_3997.jpg)
Workshop sfatey is always paramount, note the Tractor Trailer tyre under the landy.....just incase the forklift fails! :dance:
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Errmm :shock: [-X
If that forklift failed the tyre would rip through the alli body & the 90 would probably have fallen on it's side (only one tyre :lol:)
I think I would prop the forks rather than the 90?
I know I wouldn't get under it as is :lol:
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i wouldnt step near that!
neat idea tho! better bracing and it would be ok
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:shock: you must be brave to go near let alone under it
i think the tyre under it would make more damage than just havin the fork lift fail :shock:
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thats brilliant :lol:
its alot more secure than my dads disco was when we put the suspension lift onto it :lol: everytime i got the hammer out it slipped abit more
looks safe to me but im no expert
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There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity-thats why we have health and safety rules, [-X [-X [-X :shock: :shock: :D
better you than me, :lol: :lol:
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I hate to say it, but that looks disturbingly similar to this http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/archive/archive_201-250/photo249.htm
Now, lifting with the forklift then putting it on axle stands, that'd be fine. But I really wouldn't crawl under there as it is! I'm quite surprised that the forklift didn't do a handstand with the weight of a 90 on it too.
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I'd consider it with a telescopic handler with a failsafe (ie designed to be fitted with a working platform, so that the arm locks in the up position) but really wouldn't fancy sticking my head under it otherwise!
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Fork Lifts do weigh a fair bit :afro:
We have a V10 Touareg at work and it notices (but only just ;)) when it tows our truck (which is often) back in to the yard after a break down :evil:
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:shocked: silly, unsafe, use axle ramps if u must. what next :->
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:shock: that is possibly the daftest setup ive seen in years [-X
if someone pulled a stunt like that at my place of employ
they would be out the gate so fast their hair would catch fire.
and WHY do you want to lift a 90 just to change the diff ??
i have replaced umteen diffs over the years and never had to jack a rear up yet !!
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The tyre under the side of the landy is more of a joke for the photo, the fork lift has a sudden drop fail-safe built into it.....we did check that was definatly working before we got under it! :lol:
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I've a Jackall "Jack Safe" which is similar - ie like a mini fork lift.
It's supposed to be operated by a Jackall or HiLift but I hate the nasty things after loosing a big chunk off the end of one finger so simply use a big bottle jack instead.
The uprights are the same beams as a Jackall so you can manually lift / click to just under the bumper or rear crossmember and then use the bottle jack to then lift wheels off the ground.
Very secure unfortunantley I don't think they make them any more so glad I've got mine.
Paul Humphries
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as bad of an idea as anyone air jacks inflated by the exhuasts. use a proper strong jack and hd axle stands :boohoo: ](*,) :help: :pale:
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Nothing wrong with an air jack, just so long as you accept that it's only a tool for lifting vehicles and shouldn't be used as a substitute for axle stands.
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I didnt even see the forklift at first and even when I saw you mention it I found it hard to see the prongs. I thought you had just reversed the landy over the tyre.
Either way. Stupid idea I'm afraid.
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idiot.
if you die under there its your own stupid fault. :-# [-X [-X
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Its amazing what you can do with Photoshop!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I'd have just picked up the motor front then rear and put a super single wheel under each landy wheel then lowered it on to them, plenty of clearance and wont roll anywhere as the wheels would be in the steel wells
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Many people arounf the world place their lives in the hands of fork lifts.
I would work under that. as long as it cant roll forward your ok, i would be a lot happyer with a forklift at either end. But if it did fall and kill ya you would look a bit of an idiot.
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silly, unsafe, use axle ramps if u must. what next
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listen to the expert he know's his stuff =;
well izzza waiting wot is next! :twisted: :shocked:
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We already have a forum to say Hello to new members. Is there a plan for a forum to say goodbye to dead members?
=; =; =; =;
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But if it did fall and kill ya you would look a bit of an idiot.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: dont think he'd care :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
It comes to something when you give old Mental Mosh a perfect excuse to call you SILLY AND an edit :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:-# :-# :-# :-# nuff said :rolleyes: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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But if it did fall and kill ya you would look a bit of an idiot.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: dont think he'd care :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
It comes to something when you give old Mental Mosh a perfect excuse to call you SILLY AND an edit :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:-# :-# :-# :-# nuff said :rolleyes: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well said :clap: :clap: :lol: :lol:
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Once saw a guy get flattaned by some plaster board he had propped up like that in a builder yard he did'nt live and it made a terrible mess on the floor.
I think the picture was only a bit of fun guys surely he would'nt have worked under that ,would he?
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made a terrible mess on the floor.
Yeah plaster is a sod to clean off the floor.
If the front end of the landy was up against a wall and assuming that the forks are spread between the chassis rails preventing any sideways motion then it cant fall off and a forklift is a lot safer than a hydraulic jack, although if it was only a little forklift them a 2t landy might not be advisable.