Sorry you got hurt, But I can see exactly what happened, You where to cheap to buy a set of 12 tons to lift it as high as you needed so you over extended the saddle bar to where the bottom was resting on top of the paw instead of being locked in a grove where it would have been locked and very unlikely to fail unless the side of the collar blew out
Wow! Thank you for coming in and telling us exactly what happened from one crappy internet picture in a year and a half old thread. I’ll be sure to let the engineer, the attorneys and the eye witnesses know that all we needed to do was call you.
Did you actually read the thread?
I can see the orange paint of the bottom and ANy lawyer could too. So I really wouldn't attempt to make this about a bad product, There is no possible way if you had em set up correctly it would fail like that. you can not support a vehicle with the saddle sitting on top of the locking paw.
You’re truly amazing. You have an engineering degree AND a law degree too?!?
See, because I just thought that ANy(?) lawyer would read the whole story, understand that the stands had been used many times and determine that the paint on the riser was not an indication of its position during accident. You see how the color of what
you think is paint on the bottom of the riser is different from the actual paint scuffs on the side of the riser? That’s because it’s rust from earlier use. The paint on the side is from the pawl itself and the steel in the center of the stand that bent down when it failed (the bottom of the riser is flush with the flat steel piece when it is locked in position).
Then, I think, ANy lawyer would look at the stand with an engineer to determine that the pawl, which was secured in the last notch on the riser at the time of the accident, was too short to fully lock the riser against the stand body, and was positioned more horizontally than it should have been. The incorrectly positioned pawl was able to sustain some of the weight of the truck, but forced some of the weight to be borne by the thin steel of the jack body (you see the part that bent down?) and a small pin that holds the pawl to the cross bar. When the pin sheered, the riser dropped, taking the pawl with it and bending the center of the stand down.
In spite of these facts, ANy product liability lawyer would know that even if the stand had been used incorrectly (which it wasn't), the manufacturer would still be liable for reasonably foreseeable misuse. Especially with a piece of safety equipment and the availability of inexpensive, safer designs. You must have been absent that day in law school.
ANy lawyer would have agreed with me that there were too many intervening and possibly superseding causes that could have contributed to the accident to go forward with the suit. We’ll maybe not ANy lawyer, but mine did. The engineer couldn’t determine if the stands were manufactured with a “too short” pawl or if it had worn down over the years, without additional (read expensive) testing.
But, what do I know about what ANy lawyer would do.
It has nothing to do with how the stand is made.
Actually, in this case, it had everything to do with how the stand was made. It was either a bad design or steel that was too soft. I want to thank you though. I had been meaning to update everyone with exactly how the stand failed.
It was lack of common sense that got you hurt. I find it funny you guys complain about import jackstands when your toyota is made by the same people.
I find it funny that you talk about my lack of common sense, but you don’t know the difference between China and Japan.
Maybe next time you wander into a year and a half old thread, you should lay off the personal attacks and ask if there were any updates to the story.
But then you might have to hear that your beloved Harbor Freight makes a dangerous product. I’m not sure you could handle that. You seem to be the head HF cheerleader on your forums. Maybe you should wander back there, or have you been banned again?
By all means, keep using HF safety equipment. I hope that works out for you.
Welcome to MUD, genius
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