What do you use to jack up your trailer?
I use a floor jack when ever possible but when I use a bottle jack seems like a lot of weight centered at one spot. When I use a floor jack the stress is spread out over 4 or 5 inches. Using a ...
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I use a 6 ton bottle jack with a piece of decking board on top of the jack. Thankfully, I haven't had to do that away from home yet. At home, I hook up to the TV to give stability fore and aft.
My mobile RV repair guy has a slick setup. He uses a pneumatic bottle jack, a really big one (in diameter) which a large base on it. It looks like he maybe had a metal shop fabricate him a U-shaped channel 5" or 6" long that slides up around the main rail. It has a metal ring welded on the bottom center that the bottle jack goes up inside (I'll call it a jack plate for lack of a better term). It would be difficult for the jack to slide off, and the jack plate distributes out the load over a much larger area than that one small circle.
If I did a lot of long distance trips, I might consider having one of these plates made up.
My mobile RV repair guy has a slick setup. He uses a pneumatic bottle jack, a really big one (in diameter) which a large base on it. It looks like he maybe had a metal shop fabricate him a U-shaped channel 5" or 6" long that slides up around the main rail. It has a metal ring welded on the bottom center that the bottle jack goes up inside (I'll call it a jack plate for lack of a better term). It would be difficult for the jack to slide off, and the jack plate distributes out the load over a much larger area than that one small circle.
If I did a lot of long distance trips, I might consider having one of these plates made up.
