6or7dazeaweek
Silver Member
If anyone's trailering their rig between locations, it's a good idea to carry a spare tire. When I bought my landscape trailer, I also picked up a mounted spare for it. As luck would have it, I got a flat on the road this summer and was happy to have a spare mounted on the a-frame.
The sad thing was, my jack that came with the truck would not lift the trailer high enough to remove the tire.
I always carry one of those 4 way lug wrenches underneath the seat of the truck so that was a blessing in disguise. Now getting the tire off the trailer was another matter. I found a convenient piece of 4x4 in the bed of the truck and propped it up against the trailer frame in front of the tire at an angle. I loosened up the lugs and then used the truck to pull the trailer & load forward enough to lift the tire far enough off the ground to do the swap. You have to be careful that you don't go past the high point & have to repeat the proceedure. Now, I make sure the 4x4 is part of the toolkit. Oh yes, and on the return trip, I stopped off at the tire center to get the original repaired....just in case. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
The sad thing was, my jack that came with the truck would not lift the trailer high enough to remove the tire.
I always carry one of those 4 way lug wrenches underneath the seat of the truck so that was a blessing in disguise. Now getting the tire off the trailer was another matter. I found a convenient piece of 4x4 in the bed of the truck and propped it up against the trailer frame in front of the tire at an angle. I loosened up the lugs and then used the truck to pull the trailer & load forward enough to lift the tire far enough off the ground to do the swap. You have to be careful that you don't go past the high point & have to repeat the proceedure. Now, I make sure the 4x4 is part of the toolkit. Oh yes, and on the return trip, I stopped off at the tire center to get the original repaired....just in case. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif