I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Many of us on the forum use the Quckjack lift, could you elaborate on how/why it failed?

 

I lived in south Louisiana for most of my life. I will gladly take whatever snow in the winter time we get here in Kentucky.

I have had my fill of 95+F with 100% humidity summers that last from April to October (or longer).

 

Sorry to hear that. What kind of lift was he using?

 

Try that in July...

 

Thanks. It was unfortunate. He left behind his two kids and one of them found him.

I don't know what he was using to work on the Corvette he was under......I just know he didn't use jack stands. He is a mechanic so none of us can figure out why he didn't use them. When we all used to work on cars we always told each other it's better to spend the time making sure the car won't fall on you vs the alternative.

Are those lifts only held in place by hydraulic pressure, or do they lock in place?

 

they lock in place. If used the proper way 100% safe. The car has been on the QuickJacks since Xmas. Drove it once. And are on the jacks right now. I’ve seen cars fall off the lift at a shop. So nothing is for sure. Thank you jeff. QuickJack.com. Check it out

 

I have the top down then too.

 

Easy on the snow talk, I haven't had mine out in so long I'm starting to go crazy. Spent the last 2 days internet shopping for stuff I don't need and listening to cammed LS7's on youtube..........c'mon spring!!

 

This is a great reminder! When I was young, dumb and invincible I'd jack up a car for an oil change (pre Race Ramp days) and crawl under just using the jack. One day my dad asked me "How much does that screw valve in the hydraulic jack cost? Do you want to risk your life over a three dollar part?". At 56 I'm so paranoid about that possibly happening I now push the jack stands with a board to get them in position. You can't be too careful.

 

Don't worry guys, as you can see from this photo, spring is just around the corner.

 

 

And to think .... right now (11:30am) it is 82 degrees outside right now here in SW Florida !

 

Snow and winter have never bothered me. Other than not being able to drive my [fill in this blank...currently a C6], I actually rather like it. Where I live (Colorado Springs) is absolutely gorgeous the morning after a nice snow. 40F'ish degrees, snow-capped trees & peaks. Love it.

On the other hand, I hate, I mean HATE, that hot, sticky, muggy, need-to-change-your-shirt-by-10am heat. And personally, I have no idea how 3+ million people call the Phoenix area 'home'. None. 109F, 112F, 115+?! That is not fit for human habitation. I'd take Minneapolis in January over Miami in July any day. ugh. I don't know how people do it.

 

It's a dry heat

 

LOL. That nonsense always cracks me up. It's 111,...but its dry. WHO CARES that its dry?! 108 is hotter than blazes. Yes it would be worse if there were high humidity, but that doesn't make the 108 somehow more tolerable just b/c it could be worse!

Funny thing about the dry heat is that, as opposed to when there's humidity, a breeze makes it worse. When its scorching hot in Vegas or Phoenix and a wind kicks up, its like opening the over door to check on the turkey. Or as a friend once put it, "Its like standing on the sidewalk next to a city bus on a really hot day, the bus driver hits the gas & the bus' exhaust blasts you as it goes by."

Not kidding when I say I don't know how people do it. I like to be out. I can't imagine an existence where I literally have to be indoors from 10am til 7pm. Then go out and do whatever you do - hike, get in a round of tennis or, whatever. And in Phoenix in August its till hotter than hell at midnight. ....'cools all the way off' to 99.

Not my cup o' tea.

 

I lived in Tucson for ten years. Now in Reno for nine years. 54 today

 

Well I could use some southern heat. It's been -20F/-30C with snow for 2 weeks straight here it Alberta. Can't even look at the Vette cause the garage is too cold and the cover is frozen stiff.

 

So is a fire, lol.

 

That's why the all head north in the summer, then back south in the winter, hence the term "Snow Birds"

 

"All"? While I know what you mean, & there certainly are a good number of snow birds ...there are tens upon tens of millions who make Florida and Arizona their year round homes.