Cordless impact to crank trailer jacks

[not2old]

I don't know the long term effects of using an impact so I'm going back to using a drill. Works fine for me.

 

[Peter 315]

Stop being lazy and just crank it............:laughing:

 

[Hay Dude]

Seems like a low speed 1/2 inch cordless drill would be the best.

 

[ruffdog]

Seems like a low speed 1/2 inch cordless drill would be the best.

Being that the retail kits use what looks like a starter motor and gearbox to run the jacks, I think you are dreaming that a low buck cordless drill will do the job. :2cents:

 

[4570Man]

Any camper electric jacks I’ve used are slower than molasses. I’d rather have to take over by hand and use the drill to quickly get the legs up and down vs having a gearing slow enough to get the job done.

 

[Hay Dude]

Being that the retail kits use what looks like a starter motor and gearbox to run the jacks, I think you are dreaming that a low buck cordless drill will do the job. :2cents:

I didnt say low buck
I said low speed

 

[4570Man]

If the regular 1/2” drill proves inadequate this should get the job done.

 

[yomax4]

Not on an RV but I use a Milwaukee M18 brushless for all of my trailers including cranking my boat on. I just welded a 3/4" nut on each of the crank shafts. On low it's about 3x faster than manual. Seems like my impact would be hard on the roll pins on my trailer jacks gears.

 

[jmc]

Were they 4-5 ah batteries or some of the little ones that come with drills? They豎*e made to go on other high load tools like a grinder and circular saw so high load in a drill for 30 seconds shouldn遞 hurt it.

The drill itself is a Bosch Brute and the batteries are 2.4 amp-hrs @18v. Bulky and heavy, so a bigger capacity might be a little unwieldy in a drill. The batteries still work for normal torque but don't last as long between charges since I fried them.

 

[Hay Dude]

Not on an RV but I use a Milwaukee M18 brushless for all of my trailers including cranking my boat on. I just welded a 3/4" nut on each of the crank shafts. On low it's about 3x faster than manual. Seems like my impact would be hard on the roll pins on my trailer jacks gears.

Agree. An impact would have gobs of power, but the hammering may not be safe long term.

 

[hosspuller]

I would not use an impact on any gearing. Impact on a screw shaft is distributed along the entire shaft. So very effective on bolts and nut. No so on any gear or spline. Most landing gear has a bevel gear to convert horizontal motion to vertical. In that case the impact force is concentrated to a single gear tooth or spline of the landing gear. Bad or expensive things will surely happen.

 

[Hay Dude]

If the regular 1/2 drill proves inadequate this should get the job done. View attachment 671040

That would store nicely in either the trailer locking tool box or my truck. Now if I just knew if if it would raise a 9,000lb trailer. I would think it would do it easily. If the trailer was loaded and heaven forbid, I had to uncouple it from the truck, I could put it in gear reduction mode.
I can charge its battery in the RAM easily. In fact, I have a DeWalt charger already on-board for other tools.

You would think by now, someone like E Trailer would have produced a kit to make all this possible.....

 

[4570Man]

I have that same drill with a cord on it. I feel pretty confident you wouldn’t outpower it with the hand crank.

 

[Hay Dude]

Not sure if I mentioned it, but I have 2 speed jacks. On the easier to crank/slower to raise mode, a battery powered drill would crank it easily, even fully loaded.

 

[RollTideRam]

After reading all these comments, I wonder if the available hydraulic jacks on the Gatormade trailer I want, would be worth the extra cost.

 

[Hay Dude]

After reading all these comments, I wonder if the available hydraulic jacks on the Gatormade trailer I want, would be worth the extra cost.

Depends on weight of trailer and your physical strength.
My Kaufman weighs 9k empty and after a long day, itd be nice to not have to crank it off the truck.
If it’s got more than 10 bales on it, forget it on low speed, only the high speed setting is possible (has 2 speed jacks)

 

[tduby]

After reading all these comments, I wonder if the available hydraulic jacks on the Gatormade trailer I want, would be worth the extra cost.

I don’t know on Gatormade but on Diamond C it is a $1,800 option if you have the hydraulic unit already for the dove tail. Guess it depends on your level of desire to modify something existing or buy premade

 

[RollTideRam]

I ordered the Gator Made trailer yesterday. I got the “Elite” model. For the extra $1500 it comes with Hydraulic jacks, spare tire, Led light bar and a sliding ratchet rail.