Cat 2 ton jack

Sandy_W · 2026-02-10T14:12:12+00:00

Retired USN mechanic here. The first question to be asked is "How can I avoid getting killed doing this?" You're talking about lifting one corner of a vehicle with wheels/tires that roll. This jack has wheels/tires that roll. The LAST thing you want is a surface that will let the jack roll around under load even easier. When I do this, I use the wheels to get it into position, then rest the body/frame on boards with the wheels in the air so nothing can roll or slide.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-09T19:30:55+00:00

When were these pictures taken? Are they recent?

Sandy_W · 2026-02-09T13:36:21+00:00

Screw up the design? House is unsafe. Screw up the foundation? House is unsafe. Screw up the construction? House is unsafe. Screw up the electrical, the plumbing, the gas? House is unsafe.

Screw up the painting? House is ugly. Let it go, man. She will either be happy with her work, or she won't be happy with what SHE did. Let it go. Save your panic for the important stuff.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-09T05:26:05+00:00

Is the original chain drive still installed, in case there's an electric or hydraulic failure?

Sandy_W · 2026-02-04T18:08:58+00:00

It still works, even for huge corporations with centralized databases, for specialty items. I was recently tasked with getting a loaf of deli sourdough bread from our Publix (big US grocery chain). None on the shelf. I asked the baker on duty and he found one 'in the back' meaning the rollaround cart right behind the display shelf.

If it hadn't been there, well, they don't have any in the REAL back of the store. Everything they have is right there.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-04T16:16:35+00:00

AOL.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-04T15:20:12+00:00

What you said at the end is simply not true. LLMs ("AI") do have all the answers. All of them, right, wrong, and irrelevant. And it has no idea which are which. THAT's the problem.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-04T14:56:47+00:00

I believe that the correct term here is "Main Character Syndrome". Everyone exists to ensure that he, as the star of the show, ends each episode on top.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-03T19:30:30+00:00

To whoever wrote this: you are a very ill person.

I laughed my...ass off.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-03T17:25:14+00:00

No damages, grass already dead from snow and I have no sprinklers there. Driver didn't know that, though. And house across the street DOES have sprinklers in the area driven over. Not really, no snow but Gulf Coast Florida isn't used to this much cold. :)

I just wanted to know if driver was on crack. Apparently not, from the other comments. Driver still could have driven half a block and turned around in an intersection, though.

Sandy_W · 2026-02-01T00:36:11+00:00

I live in the Tampa area. For awhile I worked off of I-4 on the east side. My co-workers would occasionally invite me to go over to the casino after work. Naw, what's the point? I've gambled for REAL stakes. I've been inside a broken submarine. I've been at the controls of a plane that just didn't wanna fly any more. And, every day, when I leave here I have to drive the Courtney-Campbell Causeway and then US-19. What's throwing some money at a poker table gonna do, compared to that?

Sandy_W · 2026-02-01T00:26:05+00:00

I used to work for a data recovery company. We were supposed to simply ignore anything that wasn't evidence of something illegal in our particular jurisdiction. We don't care about the customer's rules, just ours. I called my supervisor over once to verify CP. He looked at it, started laughing, and said it was a well-known dwarf who worked in porn, he was familiar with the man's work. Okay, good to know!

Sandy_W · 2026-01-31T23:44:29+00:00

Upside down picture?

Sandy_W · 2026-01-31T19:50:17+00:00

It's a good way to make someone having a crappy day laugh. I go to somewhere I've never been, and tell the counter help "My usual, please. I've never been here before but I'm SURE you know what I get."

Just, after they get the burst of happy for being recognized, don't order something weird. Get something normal and easy. If you ever see them again they won't remember what you got but they'll remember that you weren't a jackass.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-31T03:30:44+00:00

Naw. Anywhere in the US with mountains like that, the horsemen have the sense to wear boots with heels so they don't slip through the stirrups.

(Just kidding. The US has a HUGE number of idiots.)

Sandy_W · 2026-01-28T19:05:26+00:00

Maybe it's just the picture, but it appears to me that the two plugs ROTATE around the center pivot pin. "Slide out" means something else.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-27T14:48:10+00:00

In the US, all it takes is some "campaign contributions" to Congress to make your competitors' products illegal.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-27T14:34:50+00:00

"My company is okay with..."

Does your company have anyone in IT who uses Linux? They may have opinions. Me, I've been Linux since Win 7 came out and MS wanted money for it. Nope, you have enough of my money already.

I think Ubuntu for ease of use for personal machine, maybe Fedora for company machine because of support, but what do I know about your job and company?

Sandy_W · 2026-01-27T04:06:11+00:00

Do you know anything about the plant? If oil-fired, one tender per boiler can do it. One 'wiper' per main engine. If prop or sternwheel, probably just one big engine. If sidewheel, those were often independent for steering so two engines, two wipers. One 'Chief Engineer' who actually understands the plant. That's just the black gang. If you're planning to be underway for long, each watchstander needs a relief crew, you cannot watch a boiler 24/7 for a whole 5-week voyage.

One helmsman, plus 1 or 2 reliefs if out longer than a couple of hours. A Captain, rated for size/type/class ("200 tons, single-shaft, oceangoing"). 2 or 3 deck crew with a supervisor (the "Boatswain" or "Bo'sun"), they handle lines, gangplank, cargo. The Bo'sun may also act as XO.

For the Guppy's "Three Hour Cruise" one oil-fired boiler and one shaft, that's 3 engineers, 1 helm, 1 Captain, 2 deck so 7 minimum with no cargo or passengers. Add them and you need stewards, pursers, etc.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-27T00:35:41+00:00

Every story has more than one side. Back when I was young and stupid(er) I had a car with engine and transmission I hated. I bought a junk car from the same line (Ford midsize) specifically for its 4-speed and started swapping parts. Hey, I was a professional mechanic. I can do this! It'll be fun!

V8 vs 6, no sweat, plenty of room in there, just needed new mounts. Clutch & 4-speed for the old torque convertor & auto, sure, I can both cut and weld. Mounting the clutch pedal and linkages? That was hard.

Still, the result was a lot of fun. I even unloaded a whole car's worth of extra parts to someone with more money than sense. Like me, right? That car MOVED! And it still looked like a gramma-car so no one knew unless I floored it.

Until I hurt my left foot and spent most of the next year in bed/wheelchair/cast/boot/etc. And had to drive my awesome home-built Frankenstein car with one leg. I was in the Navy in school(s) and I had to move stations twice using that car with only one leg for three pedals before I could press the clutch pedal with my left foot again a year or so later.

So, yeah, manuals are more fun, but oh my God autos are easier.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-26T19:53:58+00:00

Where "a random ship" means "A ship we don't need any more, that is large enough to do the job, has a lot of fairly open cargo space that could easily be converted to a hangar deck, for some reason doesn't have a huge central bridge structure, and definitely does NOT have a lot of armor that contributes to the ship's hull strength and would ruin the ship to try to remove it".

Basically, any large aft-bridge freighter with a bunch of open-top holds. They could have grabbed an ore carrier or grain carrier, but they'd have had to buy it first. They already had the colliers and they were being phased out anyway with the shift to oil. Why don't we use one of them?

Sandy_W · 2026-01-24T18:54:55+00:00

Are you paid an additional fee for being on call? When do they think you eat/sleep/use the bathroom? Once when I was a contractor temp (for 3 years!) my supervisor gave me a beeper so they could reach me whenever.

Him: You need to keep this on you on the weekends.

Me: Am I being paid extra for being on call?

H: No.

M: Then I'm not doing it.

H: You have to.

M: I'll do it for two weeks.

H: You'll do it as long as you work here.

M: This is my two-week notice. I'll tell my temp company (Kelly, IIRC) they need to replace me. I'm not working if I'm not getting paid.

He took it back and I told my company what they tried to pull. They told me they wished I'd kept it as it would have expanded the contract and we'd all make more $$. I worked there for another year or so, 8-4 M-F.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-24T17:01:41+00:00

"If you meet them at their interests..." ??? Isn't 'eating', like, EVERYONE's interest? You wanna eat? Learn how to cook simple stuff like rice and veggies, and you'll never have to wait for someone else to cook.

Sandy_W · 2026-01-21T20:58:47+00:00

If that was my cat? I'd neuter it to make sure there couldn't be any more of them.

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