Carpenter Jim and the 20 Ton Car Jack

Now that we realize that Inertia is holding up our house, Support is the order of the day.

Basically, the process is that Jim put down a floor plate under the support beam and attached a couple of 2”x 4”s to the support beam , then he lined up a 4’’ x 4’’ post on top of a 20 ton car jack, and jacked up the house until the upstairs floor above was roughly level (about ¾”)

Once level-ness was achieved, he then measured a stud of the appropriate length, and nailed it in next to the car jack/post combo.

This was all going quite well (except for my anxiety about my house moving up and down) until The Attack of the Killer 20 Ton Car Jack.

Somehow during the jacking process, the 20 Ton Car Jack attacked Carpenter Jim and destroyed his fingernail. I missed the actual event, but not the gaping wound which Jim just had to Share. Fortunately, it’s a short hop from Ballardia to US Healthworks on 83rd & Aurora, which is open Saturdays to fix all of those home improvement mishaps. They were able to patch him up and give him good drugs.

Luckily, he’ll grow a new one.

Score: Car Jack, 1, Carpenter Jim, 0.

Tools & Materials: Skilled Carpenter, 20 ton car jack, level, lumber, emergency room.