You think you have everything covered with spares!
Submitted: Monday, Dec 14, 2015 at 19:33
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axle
Went for a drive in our local
state forest the other weekend and ,found a rough old fire trail to explore, just as I was starting to enjoy myself, Bang! , the drivers side front tyre let go because the idiot driver Me!, went to close to a ragged edge of
rock. Anyway out with the 10t hydraulic jack which is not all that old, only to find when weight came onto it just wouldn't do anymore. put some more oil in it but no go!.
Now What?, I'm thinking, no mobile service a long walk back to the main track, so luckily I had a maddock in the back and after what seemed to be hrs I managed to chock the vehicle,( a case where solid beam axles are out on their own) and dig underneath the wheel, which was hard going in near solid
rock and clay,....A good jack is one item iv'e always carried, or thought was good!..lol...So its a spare jack as
well from now on...
Cheers Axle.
Reply By: Ron N - Monday, Dec 14, 2015 at 23:49
Monday, Dec 14, 2015 at 23:49
I found a 20 tonne genuine Japanese Masada truck jack, by the side of the road out in the wheatbelt, a few months back.
It was pretty obvious by the gouge marks in the dirt, that it had fallen off the back of a truck tray.
There was no handle with it, so I had to make one.
When I went to use it the other day, it would only pump up halfway, before it ran out of oil!
I think that's pretty thoughtless of the owner to discard a good jack, that's only half full of oil, and which had no handle!
A bloke could have been in serious trouble if I'd had to rely on it, to get me out of trouble! [;-)
Cheers, Ron.
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