On 07/08/2015 2:46 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Its hard to judge how hard the jack is working other than how effectively its
trying to bury itself in the ground. Often when jacking a house like my
grandmother's that doesn't have a foundation we'll have a tough time since we
need to di
ntil we dug all around it to get to
the release... Now if its sinking I'll put the load back down and crib the base
better...
-Curt
From: Randy Bennell
To: Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Jacks
On 07/08/
On 07/08/2015 2:26 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Umm. I'd submit that either you don't have a very good jack (you're sure its a 20 ton and
not a 2 ton? 2 ton bottle jack is maybe 3" in diameter, 20 ton is more like 6")
or you've got a very heavy cottage.
Maybe 13 years ago the floor in m
On 07/08/2015 2:26 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Umm. I'd submit that either you don't have a very good jack (you're sure its a 20 ton and
not a 2 ton? 2 ton bottle jack is maybe 3" in diameter, 20 ton is more like 6")
or you've got a very heavy cottage.
Maybe 13 years ago the floor in m
Umm. I'd submit that either you don't have a very good jack (you're sure its a
20 ton and not a 2 ton? 2 ton bottle jack is maybe 3" in diameter, 20 ton is
more like 6") or you've got a very heavy cottage.
Maybe 13 years ago the floor in my grandmother's house was sagging really bad
under the fr
When I jack the cottage to level it, it makes the 20 ton jacks work.
Last summer I bought a bunch of the big old screw jacks. 6 of them are
about 2 feet tall and I think I have 6 that are about 1 foot or a bit
more and thenI have 3 or 4 smaller ones.
The idea with these is that you can leave the
