Re: I need some injinuity to get cheaply aound a simple poblem.
I once had a compressor on a small trailer with a home-made jack stand consisting of a short piece of two inch pipe clamped vertically to the tongue with u-bolts. Inside of the two inch pipe was a one and a half inch pipe a couple of feet long. A single hole was drilled in the two inch pipe while holes were drilled the inner, one and a half inch pipe, at two inch intervals. A bolt was used as a pin for adjusting the height. To ready the trailer for the road, you simply pulled the one and a half inch pipe up all the way, moved the bolt to the bottom hole and you were ready to go.
Hope this helps.