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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: Outdoor Welding
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:46:57 -0700
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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.
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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