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Old 26-07-2012, 03:49 PM   #1
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Default Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Just found this on Gumtree



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Old 26-07-2012, 04:17 PM   #2
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thats a solid looking chair..
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Old 26-07-2012, 05:08 PM   #3
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Get four of them and you can safely work under your car, brb just gunna check that I've paid my health insurance then go change my wheels
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Old 26-07-2012, 05:14 PM   #4
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Wonder what weight that corner would be?? 150kg? If that?

Not the best way to support a car I guess....

Wonder what's at the other end?
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Old 26-07-2012, 06:00 PM   #5
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Wonder what weight that corner would be?? 150kg? If that?

Not the best way to support a car I guess....

Wonder what's at the other end?
prob a black milk crate we all know there stronger than the standard blue ones
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Old 26-07-2012, 06:12 PM   #6
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prob a black milk crate we all know there stronger than the standard blue ones
but the red ones go faster
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Old 26-07-2012, 06:43 PM   #7
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Wonder what weight that corner would be?? 150kg? If that?
some chairs get asked to support a fair bit more than that
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Old 26-07-2012, 06:46 PM   #8
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some chairs get asked to support a fair bit more than that
Was going to add that to my original post... lol....
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Old 26-07-2012, 08:15 PM   #9
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Hmmm doesn't look like a houso area?
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Old 26-07-2012, 08:43 PM   #10
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

This was doing the rounds a few years ago
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Old 26-07-2012, 08:56 PM   #11
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Scary.
Bit like the picture of a guy welding his exhaust while his car is propped up by 1 piece of 2x4 that was doing the rounds years ago.
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Teach me to open a dozen pages and slowly work my way through them...
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Old 26-07-2012, 08:58 PM   #12
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

I hope that dining chair workstand comes with the bodyshell, or Im out
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Old 26-07-2012, 10:01 PM   #13
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

we humans do scary stuff, hands up all those that remember doing scary stuff as a lad, i can remember a close call or two.
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Old 26-07-2012, 11:16 PM   #14
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Maybe he's just propping it up to get a better angle to get the gerni nozzle under there? He could still get whacked on the head by the car's roof if it fell down though.
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Old 26-07-2012, 11:48 PM   #15
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we humans do scary stuff, hands up all those that remember doing scary stuff as a lad, i can remember a close call or two.
Me... several times... I honestly don't know how I'm still alive to be honest.
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Old 27-07-2012, 11:38 AM   #16
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Gold. I had to share on our facebook. Absolute gold.
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Old 28-07-2012, 06:29 AM   #17
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Not a scary as it looks actually , anyone whos ever owned an Escort and stripped it will know just how little weight that chair is supporting . Not that I am condoning this practice for one second .
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Old 28-07-2012, 07:25 AM   #18
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Default Re: Safe way to work on the underside of your car.

Im with you norris, its not much weight, two bloke could lift that side of the car up like that. Lucky to be 100kg on that chair (less than some chairs at maccas have to hold lol)
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