Checking the tongue weight of your trailer is important for trailer stability. It's easy to do with a bathroom scale and a ...

Travel. The amount of ­travel that a tongue jack provides is the range of height it can be used in. You need the tongue jack to be tall enough to support the tongue so that the boat is at an aftward ...

Changing Out a Trailer Tongue Jack Tim Barker. 5. Raise the Tongue With the new tongue jack installed securely, you can now use it to raise the trailer tongue enough to remove the jack stand(s). To ...

How to load a trailer makes is crucial to towing safety. Keep 10-15% of the total weight on the tongue and arrange cargo with ...

One of the best tongue jacks around tight now is the Brute Power Jack from Husky Towing Products: It sells for less than $200 and takes less than a 1/2-hour to install on most equipment trailers.

Fiddling around with the manual trailer tongue jack is a waste of good time and energy. So is dealing with slow, finicky or worn-out electric jacks. When it comes time to put an end to wasted ...