[AT] Neat jack idea

[Francis Robinson]

	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