Ultimate Trailer Jack - Sidewind - 27-1/2" Lift - 1,500 lbs

Video Transcript for Review of Ultimate Jack parts and Accessories - Jack Sidewind - UJ44FR

Hi, everyone, Steven here with etrailer.com. Let's take a look together at our Ultimate Trailer Jack. It's a sidewind jack, rated at 1,500 pounds capacity. (metal clacking) So, folks, starting off, again, sidewind, that just means the handle's off to the side, and you could crank it up or down with the handle sideways. There's a topwind jack, that would be on the top part. (metal clacking) So most jacks have some kind of grease zerk up here as far as greasing the unit.

This particular one does not have a grease zerk on it. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the time, if it's greased up from the manufacturer from the start, you shouldn't have to worry about that too much. But ideally, an extra grease zerk is just an added kind of bonus. And if you look at this one, from the start, you can kind of see hopefully the difference.

So you have what's called pull-pin style jacks or flip-up jacks, where you could pull a pin and then you can literally flip the jack up or down as far as getting up out of the way. This particular one has a nice little handle right here that's spring-loaded. Let me zoom in here a little bit so you can twist this handle here. Like I said, it's spring-loaded. And if you see, you have about seven different holes, all the way up and down the side of the jack.

That's gonna allow you to raise and lower this bracket, or rather the bracket's gonna be bolted through the trailer frame, sorry. You're gonna be able to raise and lower the jack for whatever you need to use it or put it away for storage. And then as simple as flipping that back up, spring back into place. And then, of course, you have a safety pin here. You can pop down through this included hole, and then you can make sure everything here is nice and tight and you're not gonna lose it while you're driving.

As you can see, it comes with the included brackets for mounting it to your trailer frame. This, from our measurements, looks like it's gonna work with three-by-three inch or three-by-four inch trailer frame tubes. As far as some overall dimensions on this jack, excuse me, overall dimensions, from the bottom of the wheel all the way to the top cap right here, when it's retracted, like it is now, I got 28 inches long. When you fully crank this out, full extension, from wheel to top is 43 1/2 inches. Now when you're cranking this handle, you have a total lift capacity rated for this jack of 27 1/2 inches. But the travel of the inner tube here that's attached to the wheel, this inner tube part is gonna travel about 15 1/2 inches overall. So, obviously, depending on where you put this bracket in those different holes will determine how high the dimension as far as your total lift based on that bracket, if that makes sense. So a lot of information, I hope it's not confusing. Excuse me, those brackets keep moving on me. But again, you do have lots of increments here. As far as those pin holes here, basically, those are every two inches. So you have a a 12 inch option here of moving this jack from the bracket whenever the bracket's at a stance. So again, the bracket's on the side of your trailer, you have two inch increments between these holes. You could raise or lower this jack 12 inches without even having to crank it to get height or drop out of it. And then once you drop it down to the ground, you can start cranking it up, and that's gonna save you time and everything. It does use ball bearings inside of here, so they're gonna roll smoothly through the threads of the jack screw. So you don't have any direct on metal-metal friction or anything like that. So that should help last longer. As far as the construction, it's a steel construction. Looks like it has a zinc finish over the top of it, so you shouldn't have to worry about corrosion, rust, those kind of things. The outer tube diameter is 2 1/4 inches. The inner tube diameter, which is the part attached to the wheel that travels inside, is two inches. Those both measurements are kind of like your standard as far as trailer jacks and those kind of things. The wheel diameter is 5 3/4 inches. And it does swivel, so, obviously, it's gonna roll out better. It looks to be made of like a compressed recyclable plastic material that was kind of molded and hardened, and it really is really durable and tough as far as that wheel. So it looks like it's going to go over rough terrain with ease and last for years and years to come. Well, folks, I think that is gonna wrap it up for our quick look together at this Ultimate Trailer Jack, again, sidewind. And you can raise and lower the jack from the bracket. That's gonna wrap it up. I'm Steven, thanks for watching.