[AT] Neat jack idea

[rowilson at wildblue.net]

Another idea would be to weld on of the mounts on the rear of the trailer
to keep it from lifting the front while loading. Some trailer
manufacturers offer this with a reciever on the rear to do the same thing.
Rob

> 	My new issue of Successful Farming came today and I always look at the
> helpful hints page first thing. One contributor had a great simple idea
> about a trailer  hitch jack. His jack was one of those that slips on a
> pipe
> mount on the side of the hitch frame where you can pull the pin and swivel
> the jack up to a horizontal position. You can also just pull the pin and
> remove the jack. The contributor welded additional jack mounts to the
> frame
> of his trailer on both sides up close as possible to the trailer axle. If
> he has a flat he can pull the pin and move the jack to the mount by the
> flat tire and jack that side of the trailer up to change the tire.
> 	A simple idea but could be most useful. I could also see using it if you
> got into soft ground and a trailer wheel sunk in to the point that you
> couldn't pull it out. You could use a plank or even a spare wheel as a pad
> and lift the trailer up one side at a time to then put something (a plank,
> some dirt or stone, your mother-in-law etc.) under the wheels to get out.
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> Robinson at svs.net
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