Larry Jaques wrote:

On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:35:22 -0600, the opaque Trevor Jones
clearly wrote:

Dave wrote:
I think this looks interesting...

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=46604

Interesting is a good word for that..... Intersting to trust ones life
to chinese hydraulics... Interesting to trust ones life to chinese
welding... Yup. Interesting. :-) As long as one ned not go under it.

http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals...6999/46604.pdf
Read safety tip #7 where it says "Never work underneath a vehicle
without using additional safety support devices (i.e. jack stands) to
support the vehicle." Good mechanics ALL know never to trust a single
hoist or jack. That's common sense.

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Yeah, Larry, a good mechanic would have a pretty good grasp of this. In
a world where there are still a few retrograde idiots that will pick up
a running lawm mower to trim a hedge (as an example of extremes), that
particular hoist strikes be as a Darwin Award precursor.

Do they actually sell jackstands tall enough to use with this hoist?
That would be a decent solution for the OP, if the welds were to be
trusted.

I will confess to not having downloaded the manual when I looked at the
item page on the HF site, as my fencewire connection told me it would
take about 10 minutes to download, and frankly, I was not that
interested in waiting for it, since I am not buying one.

Cheers
Trevor Jones