Yes it would, but it could be done. If it can wait for another body or two it should. But I've done scarier things by myself. Used to hang drywall. Sometimes without scaffold all we had was a bucket and a coke bottle... I'm kidding about the bottle, but not the bucket. Necessity is the mother of invention.

If that's a garage the bike is in, and if the ceiling isn't finished you could rig up a come-along from the trusses and hoist it up that way too, an inch of so at a time. There's usually more than one way to skin the cat. Just need to give it some thought and pick the safest way you can think of. That just might be waiting for help.

 

Why supplement a cheap jack with a cheap table lift? If you bought quality in the first place there wouldn't be this kind of problem. $600 to 800 for a lift for a $8000 to whatever you value your bike isn't much. It sure beats building one on the floor or milk crates.

 

I see how this happened, take apart the front end and assemble one fork tube to tripple tree at a time. Try to get frame off the ground and on a couple of pieces of 2x4s one side at a time by leaning it side to side until it about 6 to 8" off the ground then put the wheel back on.

 

Gonna need a CH-47 chinook but first the garage needs to come down. So a Case 580N EP should do the job.

No need to over engineer the solution. Two guys to lift and one to slide a jack underneath is alll you need.

 

.Not to run this into the ground. But it looks way too EZ to solve!
Next, if you are going to work on your bike (and I hope all do)
Buy a decent lift!
Busting your body is pretty expensive, busting the bike is dam frustrating..
Plus when you turn 60 years old you will be able to enjoy life better if you don't ruin your self now

 

First off to the OP; don't beat yourself up.
We've all done things that in hindsight we would have done differently.

The good thing here is it appears the bike isn't damaged much if at all and nobody was hurt.
Life is all about learning and I think you've learned something from this so that's a positive.

First; a lift is not going to get the front end up off the ground which is what the OP needed; a jack would still be required.
Second; not everyone has the room for a lift.
Third; not everyone has a need for a lift.
Fourth; Unless I missed it I don't think the OP stated how this happened but it appears the reason it fell off the jack has nothing to do with the jack's quality.

Making some assumptions here; the reason this happened is the jack was placed near the bike's center of gravity and the bike lifted up.
Then the OP took the front wheel/forks off which changed the center of gravity and the bike tipped backwards onto it's rear wheel and then the bike fell off the jack.

I bet this still probably would have happened even if the OP was using a $550 JS Jack; the quality of the jack had nothing to do with why the bike fell off.
If the bike had been strapped down it's very likely the bike still would tipped onto it's rear tire but it's unlikely it would have fell over.

So the best advice here is not "spend more money on a jack" but rather always strapped the bike down while on the jack and if taking any weight off the front or the rear of the bike always support either the front or rear tire so that the bike will not tip when the center of gravity changes.

In the picture below a fellow forum member is using a JS Jack but that's not why their bike didn't tip onto it's rear tire and then fall over.
The reason their bike didn't tip onto it's rear tire was they supported the rear tire so when the center or gravity changed the bike didn't tip onto the rear tire. (they still should have strapped it down though).

 

 

 

 

I already stated way back in this thread-
https://www.harborfreight.com/catalo...f&q=motorcycle