Ironically, for small premises they are typically exempt from business rates. It may be cheaper to make the building a business and reduce his rates accordingly.
Well, yes. The chap that serviced our Tecalamit (sp) compressor told us of a friend of his who was killed when he went to check a sump plug and pulled a car on top of himself.
My dad hated them too.
They made doing clutches and gearboxes a real PITA (brakes were great though).
My Dads gripe was that they had to be placed *exactly* or you would be in big trouble.
They also required that the sills and reinforced parts of the chassis were actually strong enough to bear the weight. Otherwise they'd punch a hole in the car and you'd find the customer demanding payment.
half-height ones (only for doing brakes) weren't too bad ...
After a few years we bought another 4-poster lift which had removable ramps, so the car could freewheel on the 2 front-rear struts. Much safer. But still a PITA for clutches. ....
I was doing similar (as a holiday job) but nearer aged 15.
One of the main compressors (aerating concrete) had blown up after trying to pump it's own crankcase oil. ;-(
They sent me up a ladder with the end of some cable to a junction box to wire in a temporary compressor. Before I went in I just confirmed that it was indeed isolated and they shouted back up: 'No, be careful' ... <gulp> ;-(
They did similar with me and a French tower crane they had bought, re-assembled on site and needed wiring up again. I had taken French at school so they thought I'd be the most suitable person for reading the diagrams? ;-(
Whilst (again) it felt like pretty dangerous work (to me anyway), hanging inside the top of a crane with little in the way of training or safety equipment and bouncing a 1 tonne load on the jib to set the overload cutout / horn ... but I did and it worked. ;-)
My mate had to have his modified so that once the arms we set in position, they couldn't be moved, as apparently people had cause cars to fall of by swinging on stuff trying to get it out.
Being a 'one man band', at least it would typically only be him at risk (and was for the previous 30 odd years) <shrug>
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