Extended Stay

beemerphile1 wrote:
The tires are exactly where the weight is supposed to be located. There is no need to do anything.

Your tires are aging out due to ozone and the sun, the best thing you can do is leave them on the ground but cover them.

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+3 on not jacking it up. You may want to put wood or those plastic pads under the fires in case you get rain so they're not standing in water. Otherwise, cover them as the sun is not friendly to tires. Good luck.

The frames on trailers are not meant to be jacked off the ground. You well stress the welds along with bending or twisting the frame. As suggest above: (the best thing you can do is leave them on the ground but cover them)

The tires are exactly where the weight is supposed to be located. There is no need to do anything.

Your tires are aging out due to ozone and the sun, the best thing you can do is leave them on the ground but cover them.

My trailer didn't move for 19mo. I did nothing more than run the stabilizers down on the 4 corners on top of a wood block to keep them from wearing in to the dirt/gravel base. Then I wrapped the trailer with a OSB skirt backed with 1" foam insulation. Lived in it during the week.

At the end of my assignment, I pulled the 'skirting', added a little air to the tires, then pulled 300mi home. That was over a year ago, still on the same tires.

If you know you are going to stay for a awhile, I would jack on the frame near the spring hanger, pull the tires, then lower down on to a block with a wood topper placed either on the u-bolts or just next to the u-bolts (depending on your spring/axle configuration). Watch out for lowering the trailer too much so that you can get underneath and access plumbing and electrical if necessary.

Not sure where to place jack stands for long term, but don't put them under the axles. Somewhere along the frame.
Also get one of the Triangle things to go under the pin.