Technical My Son Still Has Me Worried (Update)

Oh man. Well... this seems like a good opportunity to unveil a new product I've developed... in my head... just now. But it's now it's in writing so if anybody kypes it, I still get paid.

Hear me out.

Introducing Shop Anchors©


A series of anchors you drill into the shop floor in places where you won't trip over them. Kinda like the hold downs they have on an airport tarmac.

Set up a perimeter... hell you could even straighten a frame with the right pullers. Hmmm... BANK!!!

 

Lol

 

Pretty sure that is already an idea that has likely been patented. At least there is prior art published in lots of shops around the world. I had to do this about 30 years ago in my own shop when I was pulling a rocker panel out on a truck that was hit in the side. That was the only way I could keep from pulling the truck sideways while using the same (or at least similar) ratchet strap method above...

 

my Dad would have kicked my *** if he caught me doing something like that.. Dad (RIP) was an Air Frame and Power Plant Mechanic with USAF. 20+ years and was great with cars as well.

 

Don't pooch my happy burger! I'm over here dreamin' about all the stuff in the cl***ifieds I could finally afford.

 

It took me a second or two to figure out what I was looking at, this is what I came up with ... one end of the strap is fastened to the axle, the other end to the doorway. The strap is then adjusted tight. The floor is cleared, the minibike is brought up to speed and driven straight into the strap. The forces created by the impacting of the minibike (into the strap) are directed towards the weakest link ... the axle (***uming it "pops" before the building collapses). I'd say the "kid" is a genius, truly operating at a level so high most are incapable of understanding what it is they are actually witnessing. Job completed ... check. No injuries/damage ... check. Just because a person is incapable of understanding does not automatically make it wrong

 

A chunk of chain will pull any axle, this looks like a test of stretch on that strap

 

Went back and looked at the pictures. There's a hammer on the ground. Maybe he was just tensioning the axle and whacking the axle and letting the shock of the blow(s) pop the axle loose. Should have used a bigger hammer.
As to how much tension it would take to pull down the garage or the car off the jack stands, that's a question that can't be answered until it's been achieved. (LOL)

 

I think you oughta take that on "Shark Tank"!

 

"Yeah, that's it... tension. He was just adding tension...." (credit Jon Lovitz)

 

Tried that method once when I needed to change a seal on a floating axle, except I used a couple of big trees. Didn’t work. Got pissed off and hit the axle with a sledgehammer in the center on those raised ribs…damn thing damn near knocked me down when it jumped out! Who would’ve thunk it? LOL!

 

My brother is a remodeling contractor, will show extreme patience and precision when doing any of that work.

Any vehicle work is broken bolts and hammers.

He spent 3 yrs becoming certified mechanic in multiple disciplines.

I don't get it. But I help him when he's managed to destroy everything in his path.

 

if that was a "field car" it most likely would have pulled it off the stands. looks like one of those axles he could have just pulled out with no tools. on a positive note, he did remove the bolts first.

 

One of the reasons I fell in love with "the right tool for the job" was because I first solved whatever problem the completely "wrong" way and then, later, someone would say "You know, there's a tool for that!" Whatever tool made the task so much easier that I ended up with a lot more tools and my skillset increased.

However, solving problems without the "proper" tool strengthened some creative problem solving part of my brain which has been useful in life. That MacGuyver gene could quickly become the hack gene if we don't get get educated about the tool for the job and how to use it.

A guy I used to work with in construction would say, "it's not wrong if it works" and then I visited his home and realized when you compound years of that ideology you have a mess on your hands.

 

Update

Had a face to face yesterday on the topic. Turn’s out my Son was only applying tension on the axle while using jacking bolts not shown to me in the video he sent (all of you only seen stills that I pulled from it). He knew that would get me going. Kid’s!

 

Did he explain why the "tension" was needed? What the hell was ******ing the axles back in after they got jacked?

 

That’s what @lumpy 63 wanted me to tell the nurse to do to remove my catheter

 

I didn’t go into depth with him and ask why and the should and should not’s. He’s grown now. The only thing I brought up of concern to me was the garage wall/door way and how that could have went bad not knowing how little a wall is attached in a mid 50’s built home.

 

Damn scotty, OUCH!!!!!!!!

 

Lol, it’s cool. I get where such talk comes from.

 

Well **** Johnny, kind of a let down! Lol

 

Just for you Lloyd

 

Oh Oh! snap shot taken today thru the screen at the back door of Grandson doing his thing.

 

I agree with your concerns: a young guy screwing up and getting a whack on the noggin is something they can heal up and learn from. An old guy having to repair garage damage is a royal pain in the ***!

 

Maybe he has the other side of the car strapped to the garage... and it's perfectly safe.

 

wow... thats sketchy for even my standards as a teenager. i'd do the brake drum method long before i did whatever he did.

 

my dad has some rebar popping up out of the concrete in our garage for this exact purpose, i used it last year to move my fairlane when it had a sticky wheel and i couldnt push it, so i used a come along and a couple chains... then went "heave ho!" until the car was off the gravel driveway onto the concrete. the rebar is all under desks and workbenches, out of the way, but easy enough to access.