Changing tires on flipped triple axle

Rockinfigs wrote:

George3037 wrote:
I use a $30 portable 2 ton floor jack available from Harbor Freight or most any hardware store. I've had a bottle jack kick out too many times due to weight shifting while lifting under a round axle. The floor jack is small and light enough to carry in my storage compartment and feel it is much safer.

Yeah I was leaning towards the floor jack idea because of the reason u mentioned the surface of the bottle jack on the curved axle I don't feel safe. Is the 2 ton jack enough to lift the axle?

I last used one on mine to replace tires. I only have a double axle but empty weight of my TT is 7269 lbs. Loaded weight is 11,170. With the 2T jack I'm not lifting the entire TT, only lifting an axle with some trailer weight high enough to get the wheel off.

firemedic1992 wrote:
Do you have the Lippert auto level feature (6 hydraulic jacks)?
If so I’d lift the trailer with the jacks to change the tire.

Yes I do.. I have the 6 point hydraulic... I also thought about this but I thought I read somewhere not to use it to change tires..

George3037 wrote:
I use a $30 portable 2 ton floor jack available from Harbor Freight or most any hardware store. I've had a bottle jack kick out too many times due to weight shifting while lifting under a round axle. The floor jack is small and light enough to carry in my storage compartment and feel it is much safer.

Yeah I was leaning towards the floor jack idea because of the reason u mentioned the surface of the bottle jack on the curved axle I don't feel safe. Is the 2 ton jack enough to lift the axle?

Do you have the Lippert auto level feature (6 hydraulic jacks)?
If so I’d lift the trailer with the jacks to change the tire.

I use a $30 portable 2 ton floor jack available from Harbor Freight or most any hardware store. I've had a bottle jack kick out too many times due to weight shifting while lifting under a round axle. The floor jack is small and light enough to carry in my storage compartment and feel it is much safer.

eHoefler wrote:
Place your bottle jack directly under the U-bolt.

That's how I do it:

Place your bottle jack directly under the U-bolt.