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Oh, I just have to overcomplicate things. It's how I roll. :)
Anyway, I haven't updated this thread for a while. I welded up thingies for clamping trailer jacks on both my towbar and my shelter mobilizer drawbar. I had my tow bar adapters milled out of steel, but haven't tried pulling anythign...
I'm thinking about welding the jack mount to a saddle made by cutting a piece of tubing lengthwise, and then clamping it onto the towbar with one or two vise-grip chain wrenches. But I'm open to suggestions if anybody has a better idea.
I'm still considering how to mount the other jack to the...
Thank you! I had a feeling that welding to the towbar without the right level of skill might be a bad idea. I will figure out some sort of clamp-on mount for the jack instead.
Thank you! I hope the wheel adapters actually work... it's too soon to say whether they're brilliant or a bad idea. I'd better set up a video camera. If the container ends up on the ground with a broken-off wheel rolling down the hill, that has to be on video.
They only have to move a hundred...
I'd like to add a trailer tongue jack to my M936A1 wrecker's medium towbar to make it easier to use without Soldier B. Here's my dog checking out my towbar as I test-fit it with a 3D-printed prototype (the yellow thing) of an adapter that I plan to have made to adapt the towbar shackles to the...