Electric tongue jacks

[VinnyP]

Getting tired of cranking, decided to go with an electric jack. What does everyone recommend in the 3,000 or 3,500 lb range?

[SoundGuy]

the_happiestcamper wrote:
One thing - it connected straight to the battery, so I would always pull the fuse for it so nobody would go pushing buttons in our campsite. If I ever get another, I would opt for the one that plugs into your TV's 7 way - that way you don't have to worry about kids playing with it.

If you're concerned about "sticky fingers" fooling with your power tongue jack just wire it through a keyed disconnect switch ... when the key is removed power to the tongue jack is off.

[nineoaks2004]

Check Harbor Freight.. I bought mine and then disassembled it and greased it really good ( I was told to do this by my cousin who did the same thing to his, and makes a difference)

[Still_Searchin_]

We got the 4000# Bulldog jack and it has sealed lubrication, which I like, and a 5 yr. warranty. I have around 1100# or so on the hitch, and after a few years and one campsite where I didn't unhitch and lifted back of truck and front of trailer more than I should have, I bent the post where it wouldn't extend all the way and Bulldog replaced the entire hitch. Will stick with them.

[the_happiestcam]

I had one on my old trailer (all I could get on one trip when I broke the manual jack), and it was great. One thing - it connected straight to the battery, so I would always pull the fuse for it so nobody would go pushing buttons in our campsite. If I ever get another, I would opt for the one that plugs into your TV's 7 way - that way you don't have to worry about kids playing with it.

[northshore]

Before you buy check out the electric jack from harbor Freight, My SIL got one has worked for a number of years trouble free and he paid about 1/3 of what I paid for mine.

[DavidP]

Have a Barker VIP 3500 and has worked very good.

[krobbe]

DE88ROX wrote:

gmckenzie wrote:
If I ever need to replace my electric jack, I'm going for one with a remote. Between that and my back up camera, connecting would be a piece of cake.

Also agree to go with the biggest one.

Remote would be nice for leveling front to back. just stand at the door and keep on eye on the level all while raising or lowering the jack. Nice!!

Yes! Remote would allow me to use a backup camera to line up, then let the tongue down, then pull fwd slghtly to allow the latch to lock down without getting out of the truck. I may have to look into that...

[Atlee]

Go for as heavy a jack as you can. I'm a firm believer in stronger is better in this case.

[DE88ROX]

gmckenzie wrote:
If I ever need to replace my electric jack, I'm going for one with a remote. Between that and my back up camera, connecting would be a piece of cake.

Also agree to go with the biggest one.

Remote would be nice for leveling front to back. just stand at the door and keep on eye on the level all while raising or lowering the jack. Nice!!

[gmckenzie]

If I ever need to replace my electric jack, I'm going for one with a remote. Between that and my back up camera, connecting would be a piece of cake.

Also agree to go with the biggest one.

[myredracer]

Been a few days...

What became of this adventure? Find a replacement, still stuck or what? Hope it worked out well in the end.

[jc1843]

I have the Husky 4500 -- don't go for a light one, when the heavy duty is only a few dollars more. I did have to enlarge the hole in the tongue a little.

[West_Coast_Canu]

I have a Atwood 3500 lb on my TT that the dealer replaced under warranty, my previous one was a 2500. Now it cranks up and down a lot quicker. Very happy with it.

[LarryJM]

screaminjlew wrote:
I've got the Barker 3500 hi-power and love it and, there customer service is top notch!

Ditto and I have been using one since the early 90's now and moved it from my old trailer to my current one in 2007. That's over 25 years use and only had one failure about 3 years ago from bad switches and parts from Barker were readily available and very reasonably $$$ wise with CS top notch also. Added pleasant surprise was I could actually understand the CS folks that were U.S. based and not overseas.

Larry