Jacking-up a QP... Advice pls!

TimR

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That's absolute rubbish as every workshop I have worked in I use my own tools and have done for 40 years.
I wouldnt be so sure mate...
Having worked in forestry and arboriculture for many a year, the regs around lifting eqiuipment are forever evolving and expanding...
If the lifting equipment isnt checked by the garage and itemised as as such, forget that it is "fit 4 purpose", it is quite conceivable that their underwriter wont honor any resulting claim arising from it's use....
Jesus, I used to have tick an endless series of boxes, down to wheel nuts on the truck, everyday, before I could even set off for the site....
Check your own climbing gear everyweek, and record it...as well as LOLER certified checks every six months..Then the rigging equipment needed the same with certified checks every twelve months..
That's how we roll in this country. EU aint got sh1t4ll to do with it !
You cant step onto the first step of a " hop-up" to stack a shelf in this country without having been through "work @ height" training...!
 
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philw696

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All interesting information there.
Having worked with many technicians and mechanics over the years that have used all sorts of tools to do the job never once have I had any of my personal owned kit checked or inspected ever.
Some places I have worked in have been buggered when I have left as they just don't have the kit that I have.
Here in France the Garages provide the tools so you just turn up to work.
 

Scaf

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Health and Safety is al a out risk, with the business having to do a risk assessment, this is combined with regulation for the testing of lifting and electrical equipment.

So I can see why a garage wouldn’t let someone use their own lifting equipment (high risk) but would let them use their own spanner’s (low risk).

Fact remains garage should have the right equipment.
 

philw696

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Some of the idiots I have worked with using spanners ain't low risk I can tell you especially in New Zealand where there is a severe shortage of mechanics as everyone wants to work in IT or Real Estate.
 

makeshiftUK

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Concluding this slightly daft saga, I found an alternate nearby tyre fitter that didn't exhibit any signs of reluctance with getting the job done - and their position very much echoed that of the SM community i.e. why didn't the first garage just and drive it onto wood-blocks if their jacks weren't of a low enough profile, which made me me chuckle.

Anyway... slightly alarming were the tyres that came off:

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The inner edges are balding... more so on the left tyre, but also on the left tyre is what I can only describe as a serious level of perishing... it looks like the tyre is ready to split apart, and it's not even 5 years old according to the manufacture date.

Michelin footwear all around now, and loving it!

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