Bottle Jack v Trolly Jack

What do you want to lift.

A trolley jack is for flat floors. If travelling you won’t be carrying a flat floor with you. A bottle jack will do many things and can be used in various positions or situations. Depending on what you have to lift, the size of the bottle jack you need will depend on the intended use.

Trolley jacks are not good on dirt. As they raise, the main body must be able to move on the wheels . If you look at them they usually have a label that says to only use on a solid surface.

Bottle jack. Take some sort of jacking plate with you as well, maybe a bit of wood 300x300x50?

The other type of jack to consider is a High Lift Jack.

You buy one, then spend another $60 on mounts, then carry all 20kg of awkward shape around for 4 years, then use it one day, just to justify buying it.

Then you watch as it slips over and your vehicle is sitting on the ground with a dented panel as you attend to your wounds. Then you give up and store it in your garage for 10 years.

Eventually you sell it, vowing to never buy one again and you use your $30 bottle jack in wonder of how such a small inexpensive tool can be so useful.

Definitely a bottle jack, apart from an easy and safe way to jack your vehicle, say you accidentally dent a panel over a wheel, they are very good for pushing them back out to, and a heck load safer than a high lift jack in the hands of the inexperienced, definitely carry a ply or similar jacking plare as mentioned.

Just make sure the bottle jack and base plate fits under what ever you need to life with a flat tyre

We always take two, and have needed to use them in tandem. It used to be two bottle jacks, but now my husband is less mobile, we take a trolley jack although it is bulkier to carry. It is easier to slide under the start the lift.

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OH god how many bottle jacks can the poor fella fit in .......HA HA HA HA LOL

What did the car have for a factory jack ??
Try to purchase that type from a wreckers with the special tools for it .

An after market has to be better than the original .
If the original does not work for u make sure the replacement works, stable and high enough to get the wheels easily free wheeling .

Don't forget a base plate .

A 12V electric jack! You can buy them from fleabay. I have a 2 Tonne electric jack because I have trouble breathing when I have to stoop down and pump the hydraulic jack handle. With the electric jack, it is a case of press a button. The box says 2 Tonnes and I have jacked my Pajero with it no problems. Not a bad price either...

The jack is a scissor jack, so it closer resembles the original car jack as well. I once had a problem with a trolley jack in that I could not get the lifting point clese enough to the ptoper jacking point on the lower suspension arm because the bulge in the flat tyre spread too far and the jack's wheels got in the way. The scissor jack gets in much closer.

It would be good if the OP answered my first reply, what is he trying to lift?

Gday
Take the best jack you can afford and hope you never have to use it .

My tug is a 100 series Toyota towing a 2 ton Caravan.

Along with a bottle jack ( I carry 2 - 1 hydraulic the other screw) I also carry a Bull Bag, which is an inflatable bag which can be slid under when there is no room for anything else. It's inflated by exhaust gas pressure an allows room to get a bottle jack under. They're also incredibly handy for bogs as you can move your vehicle quite a way and walk them out of the bog. Soft sand or mud makes no difference.
Bob

Hobsie
If you are going the hydraulic bottle way spend the dollars and buy a two stage jack.
Make sure the closed height will slide under the jacking point with a flat tyre and the extended height will lift the vehicle high enough to put an inflated tyre back on the studs.
Masada have a model that will do this HPD4NG.
I use a Hi-lift (brand) with a webbing sling accessory when it is impossible to fit a bottle jack under a jacking point. I have no bruises and have all my teeth.
Also the hi-lift has been used to lift 500mm diameter trees with a chain to allow a winch rope to fit under the trunk to drag it to the side.
In the US alone statisics state that almost 5000 people have jack accidents including death each year and 98% is operator error/incompetence.

Hava a look at the Trail-a-mate hydraulic jockey wheel. It comes with weld on jacking points for the caravan.

My 2 stage hydraulic jack is also a part of my bead breaker.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Anyone else old enough to remember Lightburn jacks?

Made in South Australia as I recall, and were fitted to Bedford trucks. They made a smaller 2 stage jack, about 125mm high, that was the perfect jack for light vehicles and 4wds.

Made a half decent washing machine too, but too simple for the modern home of the 21st century.

Bob

The old 2 ton wind up bottle jack has always been a reliable piece of gear.

We are currently running a competition where the prize is either a 2.5 ton 12V Electric Scissor Jack + Impact Wrench kit or a 1 week hire of a TVAN. Here are the competition details: -


Over the next 3 months we're running a competition via the ExplorOz Traveller app to see who can share the most photos of Australian Pubs/Roadhouses.

Here's how to enter:

1. add your* photo of an Australia pub to the ExplorOz Traveller app for the pub location to earn 1 point. This may mean adding photos to an existing public Place or creating a new public Place. To classify as a valid entry, the Place where your photo is added must have the Place Type of either "Pub" or "Roadhouse and must be added through the app NOT the website. Earn 1 point for each different Place were a photo is added.
2. double your points earned by adding a comment and/or a rating to the Place.

Points are awarded per person for each different Place where a photo is added as above. The maximum points possible to earn per person, per Place, is 2. Please note that you will not earn additional points for adding MORE than 1 photo of the SAME Place.

*Be sure not to breach copyright - photos must be your own.

The person with the most points at the end of the competition period will be declared the winner. Points are not tallied until the conclusion of the competition and will be compiled by the site administrators of ExplorOz.

The sponsor of this competition is our business member Camperact, who are the ACT & NSW Dealer for Australian made camper trailers including Track, Tvan, Topaz and MATE, Bolwell Rv: Edge and Air. Comperact has kindly offered the major prize for this competition. For more information about our sponsor, please visit Camperact.com.au

The winner of this competition can choose either:-

1. a 1 week hire of a Tvan (outside school holidays) with ensuite, and front fridge box (worth $885) which must be collected from Camperact in either Canberra or Narellan OR if logistics of this prize is not suitable to you then,

2. a 2.5 ton 12V Electric Scissor Jack + Impact Wrench kit valued at $241 + postage anywhere within Australia

Competition starts TODAY via the ExplorOz Traveller App - and there will only be 1 winner so start photographing or sift through your past trip photos for pubs and roadhouses! This is an easy one and everyone should be able to have a go.
Entries close midnight Sunday, December 10, 2017 and the winner will be advised just in time for Christmas!

Thank you all for your comments re Bottle Jack V Trolley Jack.
Steve