Jacking a 5'er with a bottle jack

If I'm just removing a tire, I put some 6x6's and add'l wood to "close" the gap, unscrew the top of bottle jack till it reaches the middle of frame and crank. If doing more involved work, use same method, but put jackstands near and under frame for safety. 12 ton jack is what I use. Truck is hooked to 5er as well.

For servicing a tire, brakes or bearings this little device works!

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Veebyes, different schools of thought, you still have one side on the wheels, I would be concerned how the unloaded side of the axles would act when removing bolts. When working on axle mounts I want the axles hanging loose, and control with a jack.

Cribbing like this is more stable than single blocks stacked. I had a stack like this on both sides.



Front supported by Landing gear AND the jack stands they are sharing the load.



This is the view from the front, hard to notice, but the pavement isn't level side to side.



It can be noted in the top photo I have the bottom layer of cribbing shimmed to level, I also shimmed the bases under the Jack Stands level.

It should be noted that once the cribbing and jack stands were in place and the wheels clear of the ground, I put a hard shoulder into both the front and rear of the 5er, it didn't budge.

When using a bottle jack, I place blocks under it to create a steady base and lift on the axle directly under the spring. The axles are not so thin they are going to collapse.

There are all kinds of methods of jacking without spending a bundle on fancy seldom used tools.

Don't know what the purpose of the job is but if it is a simple wheel lift use blocks & put the bottle jack under the lowest leaf next to the axle. For security & safety sake place a jack stand under the axle as close as possible to the U bolt. In the pic there is alot going on. Was in the middle of installing the Correct Track system.



Different time. Different job but bulk of trailer weight is on the blocks with jack stands as safetys.



Most of the time all that is available is 1 12 ton bottle jack so there is some jacking & transfering weight somewhere else. You have to start with a plan & assorted lumber thicknesses.

That looks like that works pretty slick Gmw_photos.

I went to the website for safejack and found that it is at safejacks.com

Here is a link - they carry a bunch of good looking tools!

Tim

Safejack.com sells axle tube pads and other bottle jack accessories.

made my own out of three pieces 2x4 glued/screwed together. I use it on top of my floor jack, which has a fairly big pad. The arcs I cut into the individual pieces match the arc of the u-bolts and the axle tube, so it's all supported evenly

I use a 10T jack and put it on the leaf spring directly under the axle I want to raise. The U-bolts that attach the leaf springs to the axle will hold the jack in place.

I'm about to make one. Using a piece of 3" STD wall pipe, should fit my over my U-bolts pretty well. Had to buy 3 ft, I'll use about 3" +/- and get two, if I want. Undecided about the jack centering ring yet, but probably 1 1/2 STD pipe, from the hdw store. I'll have to take it to a welder, but I know a few :)