Round A-Frame Trailer Jack - Sidewind - 15" Travel - 2,000 lbs

Video Transcript for etrailer Round Sidewind A-Frame Trailer Jack Review

Today we're going be taking a look at the Etrailer side-wind round A-frame trailer jack, with 15 inches of travel and a 2000-pound capacity, it's part number is TJA-2000S-B. This is going to be a perfect jack for your utility-style A-frame trailers. This is where you're going to see that you use this the most. It really has good use, it has good feel. You can tell the gears inside mesh together really well. They give you a good, fast up and down travel. Got the two-and-a-quarter inch outer tube diameter.

Two-inch inner tube diameter, there. These are a nice black powder-coat finish, so they're going to resist corrosion for a long time to come. We've got just one small screw here that's going to hold this cap in place. By removing that and pulling that cap, we can get right in there to those gears, and we'll be able to service them. Just add a little bit a grease here and there, keep everything working really smoothly. The jack has a 2000-pound Lifting capacity. That's as we're trying to raise up the tongue of the trailer, 2000 pounds is going to be the max.

It has up to a 3000-pound holding capacity, or a straight downward force capacity, so we're not going to have to worry about, maybe we're right up at the limit of the jack, and then we want to step on there and climb up into the trailer, something like that. We're not going to have to worry about it failing on us. Our jack's going to be pre-drilled through the inner tube there for use with accessories like drop legs, or foot plates that would fit on the bottom, such as the foot plate, part number JF-101BK. Something else I find nice about this style of jack is that we've got the groove that's going to run all the way down that back side. It's going to prevent this inner tube from spinning if you have a wheel on it or something, you won't have to worry about it spinning around in circles down there. For reference, from the top of our mounting surface to the top of the jack, that's going to be about 14.5 inches, so you want to be sure you've got the clearance room you need for that. In its highest position to the top of our bracket, you're going to have just about 24.25 inches.

In its lowest position, it's going to be about nine inches to the top of the bracket. I realize that's a little bit more than the 15 inches of travel that the description says and that we've talked about. The 15 inches is the safe travel distance in there. There's a little bit more on top and a little bit more on bottom, but you want to stay within that 15-inch range. We've got a nice, long handle here. That's going to give us a lot of leverage.

Then, there are grooves in the handle, help give us good purchase or good grip. Looks like we're looking about six inches from the center of our handle to the center area of our jack. Something you want to keep in mind, that's going to stick out about five-and-a-quarter inches, so if that's going to give you any clearance problems, you might want to go with one that has the handle on the side, or even a top wind style. You can see it's quickly and easily going to lift our trailer for us. To install our jack, we'll want to ensure that we've got the two-and-a-quarter inches necessary to pass through the outer tube. It's going to slide right down and in. This trailer didn't have a jack on it previously, so we're going to have to supply our own hardware. We'll use a three-eights by sixteen thread pitch bolt, we want to make sure it's rated for grade five use. Since the holes are oblong on the top, we'll want to use a flat washer. That oblong-ness is nice. We currently have bolt holes that are on a three-inch center from the middle to the middle of the other one. Some of them can be a little bit larger than that. Those oblong holes will help to accommodate those. We'll just drop our bolts down through with our flat washer underneath them there. To the bottom of each one of those we're going to add another flat washer, we'll add a lock washer and then we're also going to add on our hex nuts. We'll get these snugged down, and then we'll get it torqued down to the specifications that will be listed in our instructions. With those torqued down, we'll run our leg down, pick up that slack and we'll be able to get those jack stands pulled out. That will complete our look at the Etrailer round A-frame trailer jack, part number TJA-200S-B.