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Subject: [Shop-talk] getting a lift out of a truck.
From: lists at dinospider.com (Mike Rambour)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:47:11 -0700
References: <796fc38b.49d1bf.1363b7a0fab.Webtop.46@charter.net>
  In your garage no one can hear you scream

  :)


On 03/22/2012 10:35 AM, Tim wrote:
> " If you're going to do that kind of stuff, be sure you have 
> thoroughly pondered it before you hook up, and keep your toes clear"....
>
> .....and make sure someone is home who can hear you scream if the 
> worst happens. No, i have yet to have this need. But I am going to be 
> hanging a car body this spring...... so you never know.
>
> tim
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Matt <mbarre at juno.com> wrote:
>>> Funny how many of us end up doing crap like this alone yet
>>> don't end up injured (or at least don't admit it!)
>>
>> I tried to unload a 60-gallon compressor from my pickup truck with an
>> engine hoist.  I had to sling it around the middle because I couldn't
>> reach any higher.  I managed to find a spot about 1 inch below the
>> center of gravity...thus, when it went over, it went slowly enough
>> that I could get out from under it.  More or less...
>>
>> If you're going to do that kind of stuff, be sure you have thoroughly
>> pondered it before you hook up, and keep your toes clear!
>>
>> Jeff Scarbrough
>> Corrosion Acres, Ga.
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