Ok long story short. My old man and I were pulling the engine on my boat when it was nice last weekend. We used the bucket loader. Had the engine out in about 45 min. I used my cradle assembly that I made which makes it easy to pull it out without taking the blower off. It also acts as a roll bar..hehe(I laugh now). Well we get the blown big block chevy on the engine stand which is way to top heavy to start with. I wanted to shore up the front of the sagging engine and put a block of wood under it. So my old man got a jack and starting jacking the front of the engine up, well once the weight got off of it, it rolled over on the engine stand and I got out of the way just in time. The cradle hit the ground acting as a roll bar. If it was not there I would have had a broken blower and smashed bugcatcher.

The next thing I did was clean my shorts and made an engine stand brace.


Here is the cradle I made that saved the engine and I think my arm.




Here is the engine stand brace that bolts to the stringer mounts.

Damn TJ.  I'm  glad to hear you and your pops didnt get hurt.  I'm really cautious about those stands after having one fall over years ago.  I have two super heavy duty stands but have decided it's still too much weight with the blower and everything else mounted.  I've since been just using a small dolly and am much more comfortable using that.

Glad to hear everything is ok.

WOW TJ! Glad noone was hurt! Coulda been much worse! (I shudder tio think about that).

But now two things do come to mind! First, good news for the rest of us "shade tree" guys that a bucket loader was used to do this.

Second, though, with the stand modifications and even then entire engine removal "cradle", must even your implements reflect the attention detail and perfection you did to the boat? 

Come on guy, give me SOMETHING hilljacked!! 

Ray

Hahaha Ray, I got a lot of shit hilljacked. I just ain't showin' it to you guys....
T.J.
ps- what is the consensus about a thread of wives/GF pics thread. There must be others here with decent pics.