RoyB
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I use 2X8 wood blocks for my setup. They give me a level surface for the jacks and also keeps me from cranking down the jacks for a long distance. Mine are more stable with the short extension distance.
My POPUP has a stablizing jack for each corner and one under the tongue. For some reason I always put my two longest 2x8 wood blocks under the front two corners of the POPUP. Seems to stablize the POPUP movement better when we are walking around inside.
I always get my trailer somewhat level front to back and then always have a slight tilt front-side to back-side to allow for water run off (from Rain as well as A/C) to flow to the back-side of the popup trailer. I also always drop one side the awning lower than the other to control water run as well and not let 40 gallons of water to pool up in the awning. It pooled up on me so bad one morning I couldnt even open the trailer door to get out haha... Cant believe how strong those awnings are...
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mking
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X2 What Skip said.And if were staying a week or more I also have 3 more screw jacks I use.2 in the middle on the frame and 1 under the steps.
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NanciL
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You get much more stability if your jacks are not extended vertically.
I made up four wooden boxes that I use under my stabilizers, and I also have a larger one that I use under the tongue jack.
I used to use the lynx lock ones, but now only use them for leveling the trailer.
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garry1p
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To laze to crank them all the way down and to tired to crank them all the way up when it's time to go.
Other than that as others have said better stability the shorter the cranking distance and no dents in the asphalt.
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I always love to watch the people set up that bring enough wood to build a treehouse. I guess its just what you are use to but I don't put blocks under the jacks.
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rpounds
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beemerphile1 wrote:With many stabilizer jacks they have more movement the further they are deployed. By using the blocks it isn't necessary to extend the stabilizers as far and thus there is less movement of the RV.
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I put plastic blocks under my TC jacks because the feet put stains on the concrete. When it's on the truck, I use 4x4 extensions so I don't have to run the jacks very far down to stabilize the movement.
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rpounds wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:With many stabilizer jacks they have more movement the further they are deployed. By using the blocks it isn't necessary to extend the stabilizers as far and thus there is less movement of the RV.
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ExRocketScientist
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I have a concrete driveway where mine sits most of the time with the stabilizers down, no wood. Works well. When camping, I will put a stack of lynx levelers down if the stabs would need to go down more than halfway (for stability like others said). I used to have big 11" cube wood blocks I made for this out of 6x6s, but they weighed 24 pounds each. A stack of 10 lynx levelers is 10" high and weighs 8 pounds (the replacement was part of my weight reduction campain to get some margin on my China bombs).
I once put a fence board under one of my landing gear jacks in a wet grassy field. I didn't have the trailer chocked tight enough and actually saw the landing gear jack slide on the wet board. I have since set up in the same place under the same conditions, but I never put anything under my landing gear jacks anymore. The bottom were coated at the factory with that rubberized undercoating. I put them on terra firma and they don't move. If you have a tongue jack, I would spray the bottom with undercoat, and always put it on terra firma unless someone prohibits you from doing so.
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meandmydeere
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This is my reason for not using blocks. When you back under your 5th wheel, if you haven't jacked up the trailer quite high enough, the jacks slip off the blocks, and the front of the trailer drops on top of the bed of the truck. Now one of 2 things are going to happen, maybe 3. 1st is, you say things like, I won't say it here so you fill in the blank __________, second thing is, you call your insurance agent and tell him what you just did, or if your lucky, you can get some nice aluminum diamond plate top bed rail caps to cover up your stupidity.
No reason to ask how I know all this twice!!!!!!
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