Currently I am using scrap wood pieces, but am thinking of screwing a stack together with the top having a clearance hole for the jack to aid in it not slipping. What do you use as a base for your toungue jack?
We need a separate sticky thread with pictures of jack stands, leveling blocks, and sundry support accessories. I know I always get ideas from images like that.
I have 6 pieces of 4x4 screwed together. 3 wide 2 high. I routed a circle in the middle for the foot. I drilled a 1/2' hole in the center of the circle to let rain water out. I also drilled a hole thru the lower three and attached a rope to pickup and put down.
It is if you are on a hill, unprepared with lots of support, like "lumber", and have a missing jack on the left front corner! (I wonder if the tongue jack is broken too?)
I use a cut off from a laminated wood beam. It measures 12X12 square by 6 inches thick. I screwed a piece of 3/4 pressure treated plywood with a hole cut in the center for the foot plate. I also added some handles to the sides for ease of placement, picking it up and storage. Very durable and easy to handle.
I use a cut off from a laminated wood beam. It measures 12X12 square by 6 inches thick. I screwed a piece of 3/4 pressure treated plywood with a hole cut in the center for the foot plate. I also added some handles to the sides for ease of placement, picking it up and storage. Very durable and easy to handle.
My TT tongue jack has a round metal base pad on it about 6 inches in diameter. My pop up has one with a 6 x 4 metal base pad. At home I use 12 x 12 x 2 or 10 x 10 x 2 concrete pavers under them. When traveling I've got pieces of 2 x 10 and 2 x 8 pieces of wood to use for tongue and and 2 x 8 blocks in different length for the stabilizers and linx blocks for the tires if needed.
siamese wrote: I haven't found anything I like better than carrying my little lumber yard with me.
This is what I use also. Allows me a wide range of jacking scenarios. At home I use a concrete block because I have several lying around and I donโt have to worry about weight or rot.
I haven't found anything I like better than carrying my little lumber yard with me.
I have about eight pressure treated 2x6's x about 12" long that I use under the tongue, and/or under the corner jacks as needed.
Also carry a couple pressure treated 1x6 deck boards about four feet long, that I sometimes use for a little bit of leveling, or putting under the tires if the ground is soft. In soft ground, our Anderson levelers are useless unless we lay down a deck board first. Works great.
bluie5 wrote: I used a a piece of 6x6 inch treated post that I had lying around home.
X2 on this.
i had several scrap pieces. i bought cheap aluminum handles at lowes to attach to make them easy to pickup. i use one for tongue jack and 4 for my stablizer jacks.
