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Mar 25, 2020, 01:38 AM #1

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Straightening a trailer tongue using a jack and a chain

My friend from Connecticut drove down last week to get his Prevost Motor coach I had stored for him through the winter.
When he arrived he told me he had a challenge for me
A fed EX truck had backed into his trailer and bend the tongue.
This was how I straightened it I first put in on a pair of work horses then placed my hydraulic toe jack on the damaged area and used a chain to jack against.

Once I had the tubing straight linearly I turned the tongue over and sectioned out the damaged outer face of the tubing then hammered that part flat and welded it back in place

This is what he paid me for storing his coach and repairing the tongue with

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