What’s up with the jack stands?

[Kim Geyer]

We had the Cessna pads on the wings and the stayed installed. We had 2 under hoist safety stands from harbor freight that the tail boom would just sit on. When they are on jacks there is only about 50 lbs of weight on the tail stands. There is a third jack point just behind the nose gear door and you really must put a short jack there or it’s very easy for the plane to nose over if you look at Ed Coffman’s post and zoom in you can see the tail stands and the nose jack