Forum: Author Hangout

Anybody ever try to jack on?

Anyone whose had a flat tire on their car?

Technically, that's 'jack up', not 'jack on', as frankly

Before you can jack the car up, the jack has to be connected to the car. That could kind of be considered putting the jack on the car.

I know you're always right (and in conflict with reality, see rule 1, however thinly you have to slice reality), but generally, when I jack a car up, I first put the jack under the car.

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Roger that. I should have known posting something frivolous like that here would result in a lot of extraneous comments.

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LOL!

Technically, that's 'jack up', not 'jack on', as frankly, I've never heard anyone use the term 'jack on' in normal speech, as it not a normal speech pattern (common term).

As you said not normal but when we raise new steel silos we build the roof on the ground and use jacks to raise and suspend it in the air then you build a ring (wall). Raise it up add another ring till you reach the height you want.

My point is that we call out Jacks on when we power the jacks and we do this for safety as there is great potential for injury or death.

Just imagine all this nice raw edge sheet metal and you cut, shear, or pull off a pneumatic or Hydraulic line to power the jacks or even more dangerous you have electric jacks and the power cord is damaged in a building the is nothing but metal.

So yes in this we do call out

Jacks On
Jacks On
Jacks On

(then you call out)

Lifting

(once at the height needed)

Jacks Locked

and save for the fact that the jacks are holding how ever big/high building in the air things are safe

wink ;) wink ;)