Do you crawl under your lifted coach
When you lift your coach up on jacks or fill the air bags to lift it, do you: 1) Ever crawl around under your coach? 2) Do you let others crawl around under your coach? 3) If you do either, do yo...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Dutch 12078 and those in agreement......
I do HOPE you all have taken into account vehicle bounce if lifting device should fail
Seen where ribs have been cracked when friends car bounced onto his chest when jack hydraulic cylinder seal blew.
He had about 10" of normal clearance........thought he would be OK. Forgot suspension travel/compression from vehicle weight falling.
My coach has much less suspension travel than that. I've never seen or heard of an RV leveling jack cylinder piston seal failing catastrophically enough to allow the free fall needed for suspension travel to be an issue. Leak down, yes, fall down, highly unlikely short of a mechanical failure of the cylinder mounting hardware. Even a blown hose won't cause an instant drop. Is working under a motorhome ever completely safe? Of course not, but there are acceptable levels of risk that we all take every day in everything we do.
