How do you jack your trailer?

[Billhig]

I?ve got a 24 ft Starcraft and i wanted to inspect the brakes.  I?m got a big floor jack and a bottle jack but neither reaches the frame.  I?ve some good sturdy jack stand but they don?t reach either.  I could stack up concrete blocks or wood but that?s a bit sketchy and not easy to do safely on the side of the road.  What do you guys do?  It?s dual axle so I could use that curved ramp thing but I don?t know how good that is.

 

[Prior member]

I have always used a bottle jack under the shackle of the axel and never have had a problem.

I did reinvent the wheel quite a few years ago- the bottle jack is so thin, I always was worried about it tipping, so I use a piece of 3/4 inch plywood for a base, and have two metal pads with a bolt holding them loosley through the plywood. these go over the bottle jack legs and get tightened down with wing nuts.

Jack L

 

[Lou Schneider]

I do the same, bottle jack under the spring plate where the spring meets the axle.  But the fender skirting on my present trailer is too low to get the wheel off if I jack up the axle I'm changing, so I put the bottle jack on the other axle and raise it until the first wheel comes off the ground.  Then it's hanging low enough to get the tire off.

 

[dadnjesse]

I use some pieces of 4x4 staggered to get the height I need for my bottle jack.

 

[Gizmo100]

Maybe I was just lucky....The jack that came with my truck works on the trailer.

 

[Rene T]

My bottle jack has a piece that unscrews thereby making the jack taller. I just unscrew it until it touches the axle where the spring is and then start jacking.

 

[lavarock1210]

I use my  Lynx Levelers under my bottle jack.  Each is about one inch so you use what is needed to get enough height for the jack.

I jack only on the frame and while attached to the Tow vehicle.

I made a jack point by bolting a 6 inch section of square tubing in the spring perch.

 

[grashley]

Good advise above for checking the brakes at home.  If you are traveling, two words - COACH NET!

 

[Billhig]

So with a tube axle below leaf springs i decided a bottle jack on the tube between the ubolts would be perfect.  With two caveats. The small pressure point at the top of the butte jack could crush the tube or worse, slip off. 
So i found a piece of thick wall tuning with the inside diameter the same as the outside of the axle.  Cut A half section the width of the space between the ubolts and welded it to the top of the jack.  Fits like a dream distributes force, and can?t slip off. Perfect!

 

[meternerd]

My 5er has hydraulic jacks that can lift the wheels off the ground, so no problem there.  My cargo trailer (tandem axle) is easy to lift with the truck jack under the suspension...not under the axle tube.  If not still hitched to the truck, chock the wheels and of course, don't get under the trailer without jack stands.

 

[Frizlefrak]

Use my big floor jack under the flanges on the axle.  Up it comes!

 

[Velociraptor]

Get this kit and slap it up under the tube.  Bascially the same thing Billhig describes.

https://safejacks.com/products/safe-jack-bottle-jack-recovery-kit-with-bottle-jack

Between this, my HiLift, and a winch haven?t run into a tire change or recovery I couldnt handle.