Sad Safety Reminder

[Leroy Eckert]

What I got from Mike's post is reiteration of redundancy. What you are doing may be OK if you are skinny enough to be OK if both systems fail. Don't allow anyone in the cockpit while you are under there in that configuration. Try crawling under there with the bags down. If you fit the odds are better. I am to big to get under my coach unless it is jacked up except under the engine behind the tag.
Duplicate safety systems is a good idea because failure will most likely happen only once.
Our prayers are with his family.

Leroy Eckert
1990 WB-40 Royale
Dahlonega, GA
Smoke N Mirrors

Ryan Wright wrote:

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:36 PM, mbulriss <"mbulriss%40yahoo.com"> wrote:
> Our understanding is that Jim's passing was due to his bus falling on him.

Does anyone know how it happened? What was he doing, what went wrong?

I crawl under my bus all the time under these circumstances:

1. Parked on a flat, level surface.
2. Parking brake set.
3. Air bags inflated.
4. Leveling jacks down as a safety against airbag failure.

I've never had cause to jack the bus up beyond normal airbag operating
height. I'm small enough I can work around it without lifting it. I
can't see the airbags and the jacks failing at the same time. I'd
imagine most of the danger here is when you've actually lifted one or
more tires off the ground, yes?

-Ryan
'86 PT-40
8V92