Tripod support for too-short stabilizer jacks
Since I flipped my axles for extra ground clearance, my stabilizers don’t reach the ground; I usually bring a stack of big wooden blocks to make up the difference. But the blocks are a little bit uns...
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profdant139 wrote:
Newman, I did not understand your comment -- could you clarify? And Bumpy, I tried those "oil derrick" things (I had a couple sitting in the garage), but the base was a little too narrow, and it rocked a bit. The tripod thing distributes the load over a wider area, and the angle of the legs means that the "force vectors" from the jacks run straight down the legs, instead of coming across the top of a narrow "derrick." (As you can see, I did poorly in high school physics -- not sure if this is really an example of vectors, but how often does one get to use that word in a sentence??)
my RV probably has less frantic movement in it than yours, vectoraly speaking. :)
bumpy
