I need to rent some 30+ ton jacks to level the first floor of a house I’m working on. I live in north central Ohio. Can anyone help me out?
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Screw jacks or manual house jacks are faily common at tool rental places, even seen them at HD. If you looking to buy some, 30 ton.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200304835_200304835
50 ton
http://www2.northerntool.com/product/200304837_200304837.htm
Best to you and yours, Chris.
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All the tool rental places around Mansfield just have 20 ton which I already have. I wish I could afford to buy some but it just wouldn't be a good investment for as little as I'm going to use them. Thanks though.
Then I'd start calling house movers in your area to help out.Best to you and yours, Chris.
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Any reason you can't put two 20 ton jacks next to each other at each lift point?
Just be sure to raise them in unison...buic
I don't know. Is there any reason? I never thought of that.
I got a 500 ton jack setting in my warehouse
Just throwing the idea out there. I'm no expert, not even close.
I've done some jacking and lifting, but nothing on a major scale.
Hopefully someone else has done this and knows if it is possible and safe...buic
Holy lifters Batman! My jacks are worth twice as much as what I paid for them now! I think I got them on a clearance sale before the prioces of steel went up though.
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The 4 Kobalt 12(or 20?)-ton jacks I'd picked up at Lowes a year or so ago were like $15-20/ea. Which was about what the per day charge was on 1-2 of them.
How big are those jacks in your photo gallery thread?
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Mostly twentys and thirties. I've got a coule fifties someplace or loaned out, but don't need them for that small house. The whole house doesn't weigh much more than fifty tons.
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you can buy a damage protection for the 50 ton jack for only 10 bucks. i'm thinking if you screw up and overload a 50 ton jack your wife would be glad she had that insurance... larryhand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
I did this about 6 years ago on my house. I rented 8 or 10 short screw jacks at our United Rents yard. I think that they were all in the 20 to 40 ton range and called railroad jacks I think. There were several different ones, and they were all very old. I felt that they were kind of a rip off at about $10 a piece per day. The 30 ton hydraulic ones were twice the money. I certainly couldn't have bought that many jacks at the time for one project so I rented the screw jacks. The problem is that it can take many days or even weeks to do it right. I did mine in 2 weekends at the 1.5 day for whole weekend rate. During the week I returned them and left the house supported by dozens of 4x4 poles cut to length. This was back breaking work. The screw jacks, even when greased took a lot of effort to extend while bent over. Jacking, bracing, unjacking, rejacking, more bracing, ... all over the basement.
A few weeks later, I needed a jack or 2 to do some smaller movements while installing real footings and supports. I decided that I could afford the $20 or $40 price for 2 brand new 20 ton hydraulic units at Pep Boys. The hydraulic ones were so much easier on my body. The 20 ton units were plenty powerful to lift good size areas of my 2 story home.
In retrospect I should have just bought about 5 of the 20 ton units and some extra 4x4 pieces of wood to use as supports when moving the units from one area to the other. The cost would have been about the same. There would have been no rush to return anything. And they worked so much better than the screw jacks. The 2 units that I bought I have used numerous times for other uses. They paid for themselves the first or second use compared with the rental units.
Sorry that I'm too far away for you to borrow them.
My situation is that I bought the rental property next door and wanted to remodel and rent it out. Three days after I had the furnaces checked both the downstairs and upstairs pipes under the sinks burst. I probably didn't find out for two or three days. Possibly 35,000 gallons of water went through the house. Needless to say we decided to renovate and gutted the place. The first floor is completely uneven and I need to put some new beams in the basement to work it out. The 20 tons are not getting the job done. The joists are rough hewn logs with bark still on them. House inspector dated them to the mid 1800's. None are the same width. It's a real pain. I can't find any locally that I can rent. Thought maybe some one in forum land might know where I can get some close to where I live.
I do appreciate all the help and advice as this is foreign territory for me. If it wasn't such a headache or if I wasn't the one paying for it, it might be kind of fun though.
By the way, since this was a vacant rental property, and since the water damage (flood) wasn't caused by a fire or wind storm, insurance did not cover it. Go figure.