Electric Jack ?

[RedRamer]

Anyone have good / bad comments about these electric tongue jacks like the Atwood one?

I'm thinking of one but I see quite a few used ones for sale at my dealer and that makes me think they might be more of a problem.



thanks

 

[Grayhackle]

I have an electric jack on my 32 ft Jayco that I have used for 7 years. No problems and it works great, a pleasure to use. No more cranking jack handles up and down to load and unload the hitch. It is made by H&H engineering and is a high torque jack.

I would highly recommend this jack. I do take the pressure off it by using the trailer jacks to support the front of the trailer when not in use.

When I bought my trailer, they were going to give me 2 high end lawn chairs and I said I also wanted an electric jack. They threw that in instead of the chairs!, great deal. Bought my trailer at Ardell Brown in Salt Lake City, but I believe these jacks are available at any rv store. Retail was $250 for this jack, they had a lighter weight jack for a bit less. Depends on your tongue weight. I haven't seen or heard of the Atwood, but they make pretty good water heaters!

If you want more information like the model number or anything else, I can look it up so just pm me.



Also, do you suppose a dealer would take an electric jack off a trade in to sell to make a few bucks? Might explain the used jacks for sale. Wouldn't put it past them!



Bill James

 

[Whiskey]

Best thing you could invest in, just think of cranking that Dollie in 100 plus degrees... I just put a new one on my Jayco now my wife does the cranking while I have a cold one Oo.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Much better than getting tennis elbow, from cranking on a non-electric. My jack motor filled up with water a couple of winters ago and when it froze, one of the magnets popped loose. A little Gorilla glue took care of that problem along with some new plastic parts to replace the cracked ones, so the water will stay out.



The gearing must be better on the electics too. There have been a couple of times where I had to hand crank it and it was much smoother and easier to turn.



Doc

 

[Fireman]

RedRammer,

I once saw a hydraulic toung jack that was comparabaly priced with the electric jacks.

Just food for thought,
Fireman

 

[Bob Beauchaine]

I have used the same one on two different trailers for the past 12 years - don't remember the make but it saves a lot of work and has always worked very well.



Bob

 

[RedRamer]

thanks guys.

Tennis elbows, I hear y'all... I'm up and down and back up again on every hitch and then all over again when unhooking.

I'm down to the Atwood or the Barker H&H, and I don't think there's much of a differecne between these 2 to matter much.



But the big differecne I see in all of these is the high rated ones are ball bearings (3,500 lbs capacitiy), all others are not.

Can you guys rememebr if you got the 3,500 lb one or less?

thanks again

 

[Whiskey]

I bought the one rated for 3500 lbs. I always like to be safe when concerning weight...

 

[bmwcushman]

Have used these on high usage trailers for years- probably hooked up 800 # tongue wt trailer 1500 times so far on one of my trailers-no problems yet . Definitely a MUST-no more skinned knuckles, faster, safer, I wore out one hand cranker and it dropped right next to my foot!! Bonus-you got a nice light right there too!!!

 

[Grayhackle]

I have the 2500 lb jack. I would go heavier if I was to do it again. When you set the torsion bars on my hitch, you are lifting the rear of the truck. My jack is the Barker High Torque Acme jack by H&H engineering.

 

[bmwcushman]

I have used a couple different brands-both fine. Just a note, I turned the wires around from recommended; now when you want the hitch up, you push the switch up-------

 

[RedRamer]

thanks again for all the replys.

Now we'll see if Santa was listenning!