Winding caravan steady legs
Any recommendations on a battery driven drill with a socket for winding the steady legs up and down?
Thanks
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Huskydogs got it right .. Dont forget socket with built in extension . Amazon
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A fairly small dual speed drill with variable torque cut out, worked very well for the last two years we had the van. It was from the Aldi brand of tools, bought as a Thursday special, when we just went in for coffee.😂 It was about £22 and I have seen them in Aldi several times since. Came with a lithium battery and charger. The charge easily did 10 or more cycles. Now just gets used for small drilling jobs and as a powered screw driver.
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I did once get a Bosch one but that soon went wrong then I concluded it had been just addition clutter and a weight we were carrying, where we had a perfectly adequate handle provided with the van.
It was always the getting up from bending down that was the real challenge, not the winding itself, therefore, using a drill does not relieve that bit of the task. So one bit less clutter and weight carried done away with these days.
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I find much less 'getting up and down' with a drill and far easier for me. I carry drill and two fully charged higher capacity batteries. Use drill for engaging and disengaging mover. Will get me off home base and back on return plus 8 site set up and take downs on one battery. Never carry the charger.
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I bought a small 18v drill from Aldi about two years ago for about £25 - lives in a soft case knicked from an old drill which has a slot to keep the extension socket in. Works well and at least I don’t have to bend down for as long as I would have to if I was using the manual ‘winder’🙁
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We carry an 18v battery driven drill.
It’s used for winding the corner steadies.
Screwing in pegs.
Any drilling required.
Driving a food whisk.
At home for DIY.
It’s a Makita model, popular amongst tradesmen for their reliability. But not cheap.
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Just make life easy. Any make has got to be better than a handle.
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We use the handle provided with the caravan. Less weight, no extra cost and less to go wrong.
One issue I find with using drills is noise depending how the torque is set. Some sound like a machine gun
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Some sound like a machine gun
It depends how they are used. Some folk give it full trigger and go. What I do is to make use of the variable speed available from the drill trigger. I start off with little trigger pressure, increase to wind most of the way speedily and then reduce the trigger pressure and hence drill speed over the last few inches of lowering or raising legs. When the drill reaches torque I probably get 3 or 4 clicks at a slow speed.
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Correct Easy T speed and torque
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I fitted plastic tubing to the underside of the van using U clamps. This acted as a guide for the socket extension as the Bailey steady bolt heads were set some way back from the rear of the van. That plus a Dewalt drill worked fine.
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