CORRECT WAY TO LIFT WHEELHOUSE?????

[DCL]

Have may first wheelhouse. Only used IT 3-4 times. Have always cranked up the back first and then the front. Did that today and broke the front cable already. Is there a correct way to lift your house??? Front first or back first. Just wondering if I am doing something wrong. Thanks for any info.

[Jethro80]

Is it new? What did the cable look like? Is it frozen in?

[S.D. Ice Angular]

When you say "Front" vs "Back"??

Are you refering to each wheel as the rear and the tounge as the front?

Is the tounge hooked to your truck when you are doing this??

[Walterwontfalter]

I was told by the company when putting it down drop the tongue first and then the wheels, and when lifting it do the reverse...wheels then tongue. Never had any problems with it yet and I've had it for 4 years. There must have been something wrong with your cable or something was holding it down for it to break already.

[mskyfshntchr]

I'm guessing you are talking about hooking up to and unhooking from your vehicle....

When dropping the shack: let the back down first- taking the weight off of the wheels. Then unhook at the hitch.

When loading your shack: Hook up to your hitch first. Then raise the wheels.

DO that and you won't have any problems.

[eric29]

Would you by chance have an Ice Castle. The same thing happened to mine, i dont know why but pretty easy to fix, just gotta get another cable, i always have an extra in mine know. That does sound like the right way tho.

[DCL]

Yea, it is an ice castle. It is 1 yr old. Was wondering if you should hook up the hitch first and crank up the front or crank up the back and then the front. We have been doing the back first and then the front and then hooking to the truck last. Other times seemed easy, but this time a was hard and the cable broke?????? It is an easy fix, just wondering if there was a better way to take the weight off the front so it doesn't happen again.

[Boss Hogg]

Get yourself a Handy Man Jack, High Lift Jack, Track Jack. (All the same thing) Then forget about the front winch. Sooner or later it is going to give you trouble anyway.

[s2h]

Always lift with your legs, not your back

[cold one sd]

My wheel house doesn't have the drop hitch in the front and I don't think I could get it off of the ice until the wheels are cranked dowm. I would think the wheels being down would make cranking the front up much easier on the winch.

[backlash 1]

ON my IC, after you crank up the back of the house first, The front winch on the drop tongue goes up so easy, there is no stress on the cable whatsoever. Yours must be balanced completely different.

[tonkapat]

a jack in combination with the front winch should do. Use the jack to free up the house and then use the cable winch. good luck

[Big Buck Buster]

You could also eliminate the winch on the tongue all together. Just install a high lift zero clearance tongue jack on the non-moving part of the tongue, and then you only have to worry about the wheel winches breaking.