Junkman . . . regarding the 4 post car lift, I honestly don't know the brand! A guy in the industrial park where my business is located races cars, he has several 4 post car lifts, and he has one 'extra' unit that he never installed, it is still crated in the corner of his shop. He showed me the installed lifts, ran me though all the features, it looked to be as good or better than the ones I looked at but I never asked the brand name, he has all the options with it too. It has a 7500# capacity, removable central floor plates, etc. It has been in the crate for about 15 to 18 months. He sold it to me for the price he paid (before the steel increases) and included in the price, his guys will haul it to my garage and install it for me too!
jeffinsgf wrote: <font color="red"> I bet that sucker is throbbing now
Thought I would comment on your new forestry hard hat. I have one -- not the Stihl -- mine is from Peltor. The shield protects my whole face, not just my eyes. Mine is screen. From the pictures, it looks like the Stihl is a combination of plex and screen </font>
Yup, it still hurts, especially when I try to lay my head down on a pillow!
As for the Stihl helmet, they make 3 versions. I bought the same one that Don (shoppingtractors) posted a photo of early in the thread. It is their Euro-style helmet. $49. I didn't even bother to bargain it down. The screen is a DUAL mesh design. Fine mesh in front of the face, coarse mesh at the perimeter. They do offer a helmet with a poly face shield also, I was actually concerned that it would be very hot to use in the summer and might even fog up in use under some conditions? They told me it is a construction helmet.
I honestly hope that I don't use the helmet very often, but I will tell you that when I am working the woods from now on, it will be on my noggin! I actually feel pretty stupid about the whole thing. It never should have happened. But I suppose that is when most accidents DO happen. My hope is that someone else might see this and be a bit more careful too. On a different topic, but still safety related, we often talk about rolling a tractor, but there is now a thread where a guy rolled his Kubota BX sub-CUT. What surprised me is 2 or 3 other guys responded saying they did the same thing. So regardless of what we think we know, what brand/style/size/type of machine we have, or how safe we think we are, "$#!+ happens" when we work on these tractors of ours, and when I am dumb enough to be looking backwards while driving uphill in the woods, I guess I should hope that someone else is smart enough to learn from my mistake. I know I'm not the first to almost get wacked out of the seat by a branch (probably would have been laying on the ground if not for the seatbelt around my lap) but maybe my dumb error will save the next guy's head?
