Highlift jack

I think it's an integral tool...sure....but must be used with care! Remember, common sense isn't all that common!

There was a thread back a bit about using tow straps and hooking two together. It was following someone that had gotten killed because they didn't hook them together properly (used a metal clevis instead of intertwining). This is an example of knowing what you're doing and thinking ahead!

IF you have to get under the jeep....DON'T JUST use the hi-lift. If you are high-centered....sure, jack'er up and push it over....just watch your toes!

Even better is the old fashioned way: Stick a bolt or big-a$$ screwdriver through the hole just below the head. That's truly a positive stop.

Yup, that's even better.

The image of that reminds me of a security trick I learned from a former employer and utilize myself at home to this day. Although not actually vehicle related, it is a wise idea in a related way.

To securely lock overhead garage doors, we placed and locked padlocks through the holes in the track that the door guide wheels rode in.

By placing the locks through the track immediately above a wheel, no one would be able to force open the door from the outside, and even if they got inside the garage by other means, they'd have to go through a lot of effort, time, and undoubtedly noise, to remove the lock to open the overhead door.

Placing the lock several wheels above the bottom one prevents easy removal of a single wheel's axle mounting plate and freeing the door.

It may not protect smaller items going out the service door or broken windows, but anything bigger that won't fit through those is considerably safer from theft.

Hoodoo did pass the time by typing:

Yep.. and on that subject.

Put an extra deadbolt lock (key both sides) on the doors. Then drill and sink a lag bolt through the upper and lower door hinges. Cut off the top of the bolt about 1/4" from the hinge and mark/drill the other side. Now your doors are bolted on one side and pinned on the other. Any thief is forced to either break the door down (hard to do with steel doors) or get every thing through a window.

Of course the thief may just break everything in a fit of anger but on one level that's worth it. :)

Just don't lock yourself into a fire trap. Use the normal locks except when you will be out.

Gee, that surely would make it impossible to destroy the hinge side of a door to break in. I used to work at a place that pre-hung steel doors and we merely supplied extra a few long hinge screws to be sure the installer anchored them in the rough opening instead of just the jamb.

Just like making it difficult to steal a car stereo from the dash. The extra damage incurred by the methods of amateur thieves is more than the ill-formed safety intent.

Yep, gotta be cautious regarding liability of other, possibly inadvertent non-thief, occupants.

What a story. Poor guy.