blackwolf wrote:

I'm actually not a huge fan of axle stands, and although I do use them, for anything heavy duty, or for working underneath if I'm going to be hittng, rattling, or shaking anything, I prefer to use chunks of sawn-up railway sleeper, ideally hardwood!

Sleeper sections are good bits of kit but anything less chunky can suffer from repeated use:



Hockey pucks on the top of axle stands reduce the chances of slippage.