Ram Envy
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SquirrellCook
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When I see those I think a strong wind would bend them!
If everyone thinks they are fine, maybe mine will be overkill.
If everyone thinks they are fine, maybe mine will be overkill.
Do yours stay up for any length of time? Mine go down in a day or so
wildebus
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I like the idea of levelling jacks like that, and I have to presume they are designed to cope. But they do look pretty skinny and I don't know how relaxed I would be.When I see those I think a strong wind would bend them!
If everyone thinks they are fine, maybe mine will be overkill.
Do yours stay up for any length of time? Mine go down in a day or so
(I would also be wary putting them down like that guy has on a tarmac road without any apparent load spreading! I can just see them disappearing into the road)
Great for wheel changing though
SquirrellCook
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Even if they don’t belong to you.Great for wheel changing though
wildebus
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Haah! Good pointEven if they don’t belong to you.
Add to departure checklist .... "Check Wheels still present before raising jacks"
Bouydog
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Most I have had it raised for is about 6 to 8 days no noticeable drop but I would be suprised if id had not lost some pressure.When I see those I think a strong wind would bend them!
If everyone thinks they are fine, maybe mine will be overkill.
Do yours stay up for any length of time? Mine go down in a day or so
I agree with wind worries, I am no engineer but I have bent some things over the years.
Millie Master
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We used to have a regular visitor to one of our sites who travelled in a mega expensive Concorde MAN motorhome. On arrival on their pitch, they would stop the engine and then a few moments later the entire enormous machine would sink slowly to the ground following which there then started some strange buzzing and bonging noises as 4 x 40 cm square plates which were attached to rams which were something like 30 cm di. and in absolute awe this enormous 5+ ton machine was lifted up until it was 100% level.
But I suppose when you are spending something in excess of half a million £'s, you might expect to have a few extras thrown in for the price.
Phil
But I suppose when you are spending something in excess of half a million £'s, you might expect to have a few extras thrown in for the price.
Phil
Squiffy
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Many years ago when I was 16 I and 3 of my friends one being 17 and who was the proud owner of an old Morris traveller, decided to go very early morning fishing, we all turned up at Micks House at about 2 in the morning he lived in a sleepy village Buriton in Hampshire his parents house was set back on a country lane and the car was parked on the drive up by an old wooden garage we put all our fishing gear in the back then piled in ready for Mick to wizz us off to a lake about 5 miles away for a morning of carp fishing. Milk had only recently passed his test but non of us cared about that because we had all got motorbikes and scrambled them on a regular bases so being scared of being on the road did not enter our minds. Mike duly started the car put it into gear and dropped the clutch for a gravel throwing departure, nothing the engine increased in revs the car shook but we didn't move, "The clutch has gone" Graham piped up, "No it was ok this evening" Mike said. So he switched the engine off and we all got out to see what could be the problem, to find that the o/s rear had been jacked up on a pile of bricks and the wheel had been swiped along with a brand new tyre that Mike's father had put on just before giving him the car.Even if they don’t belong to you.
Phil
Millie Master
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To this day, some 51 years later, I honestly can't believe my brother married the callous ***** that he did.
But being the scheming slightly younger brother who detested the woman (I still do), I planned his stag night and car dressing up over a very long period of time.
For his stag night I obtained a small tub of Methylene Blue from a nurse friend of mine, it being a chemical/drug that was used in those days to check the urinary flow of patients. The small tub was enough for a 30 bed ward for a whole month, I also researched that it had no side effects. So with every of his very well laced drinks I sprinkled in a goodly amount of Methylene Blue and as his very drunken night progressed so did the blueness of his lips and the dribbles down his face. He consumed the entire tub in his exceptionally drunken night, nasty little brother that I was!
His car was a Hillman Imp for which many months before I had obtained the keys. So as he had trusted me to get the car to his wedding reception (stupid idiot) I had plenty of time to remove inner trim panels and place deep frozen kippers in dry ice behind them as well as numerous other not very nice items that were bound to stink when they thawed out!!
I duly parked the car outside the reception and an accomplice jacked up the back end ever so slightly so that the tyres were just kissing the ground yet not hard enough to have any traction. And of course the car was tarted up in the way they used to be prior to the breath test.
Strange as it might be, but I have seldom spoken to his wife to this very day and always refer to her as being the Meadow Lady!
Phil
ps. To explain, the term "Meadow Lady" was one which is used by the cosmetic industry when talking about the girls (cows) who work for them in shops and at that time and for many years since I was a retained promotional marketing and packaging consultant for several of the major UK marketed brands.
But being the scheming slightly younger brother who detested the woman (I still do), I planned his stag night and car dressing up over a very long period of time.
For his stag night I obtained a small tub of Methylene Blue from a nurse friend of mine, it being a chemical/drug that was used in those days to check the urinary flow of patients. The small tub was enough for a 30 bed ward for a whole month, I also researched that it had no side effects. So with every of his very well laced drinks I sprinkled in a goodly amount of Methylene Blue and as his very drunken night progressed so did the blueness of his lips and the dribbles down his face. He consumed the entire tub in his exceptionally drunken night, nasty little brother that I was!
His car was a Hillman Imp for which many months before I had obtained the keys. So as he had trusted me to get the car to his wedding reception (stupid idiot) I had plenty of time to remove inner trim panels and place deep frozen kippers in dry ice behind them as well as numerous other not very nice items that were bound to stink when they thawed out!!
I duly parked the car outside the reception and an accomplice jacked up the back end ever so slightly so that the tyres were just kissing the ground yet not hard enough to have any traction. And of course the car was tarted up in the way they used to be prior to the breath test.
Strange as it might be, but I have seldom spoken to his wife to this very day and always refer to her as being the Meadow Lady!
Phil
ps. To explain, the term "Meadow Lady" was one which is used by the cosmetic industry when talking about the girls (cows) who work for them in shops and at that time and for many years since I was a retained promotional marketing and packaging consultant for several of the major UK marketed brands.
SquirrellCook
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The behaviour of people in your area is enough to drive you to take up arms!He he, they used to put stinky kippers in the heater intake between the wipers on old cars here and screw the grill plate on again.
Then ground down laxatives in chocolate buns at weddings.
trevskoda
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Outside my wifes work they stripped the two who whereto get married and tied them naked to a lamp post covered in paint & ribbons.
SquirrellCook
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Are we still on the topic of Ram Envy?
Millie Master
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No, but this is far more amusing