Re: Outdoor Welding

On 6/15/2025 5:21 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:102nlou$16ktt$1@dont-email.me...
 Most wheel jacks aren't rated for this much weight either.
 Landing gear... one of the plans for the connecting tube assembly is
snap pins rather than bolts or welding.  Makes it dead easy to make sure
both jacks contact the ground at the same time, or close enough.
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 I don't quite get that.
 There's also semi trailer landing gear, for a price.
https://www.amazon.com/Stromberg-Carlson-LG-183708-Landing-Hardware/dp/ B004LFCE5Y?

That is a light duty variation of what I am doing.  I'm using a pair of 12000lb drop foot jacks that have input shafts on both sides.  My plan is to link them with a sprocket on the linkage.  Each side will be connected with spring pins so I can remove one to equalize the lift if I need to, and then reconnect them.  Not as fancy as the auto-leveling gear on some fifth wheel RVs, but good enough for a trailer I might use a dozen times a year and load/unload maybe 2 dozen times.
I don't think I need anywhere near 24000 lbs of lift.  A single 12000lb jack would be more than enough.  It only had one before.  I am going with duals for stability, and awkward jacked up high loading and unloading.  I'd like to be able to drag a sedan up onto the bed.  Now even to load a full size truck I have to add a timber to act as an arch to the ramps.
I also have a 3500lb electric winch I took off the trailer, that I plan to mount somewhere to to use as a chain drive for the connecting link. Its slow speed internal gearing should be just the ticket.  If I need to hand crank I can put it in free spool or remove the master link in the roller chain.  Why somebody built this goose neck and only put a 3500lb winch on it I'll never know.  I suppose if they only used it for easy rolling loads it would be okay, but I found even the 9000 lb Warn winch to be marginal sometimes.  This trailer is getting a 12000 lb Badlands for loading.
The Warn has been semi permanently mounted on a lower trailer. https://rumble.com/v6rehq4-hidden-winch-trailer-tongue-box.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp   It is adequate for a rolling load with arch ramps on the lower trailer.
Sorry, never uploaded that video to YouTube.
The other Badlands will eventually get put on a tow hitch mount or a bumper mount on my truck.
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