rockandride6 wrote:
9. Leveling best practices
Have you figured this out yet?
Sometime (not camping), level up the rig using a carpenters' level and then install something like
this on the front nose of the trailer so you can see it from the cab of your truck. Then install a smaller bubble on the front frame so you can see it as raise/lower the tongue jack. Then you'll be ready for business.
To level once you get to camp (assuming you're boondocking on public lands), pull up and find the most level spot where you want to be, and then stop about a foot behind where you want to be.
If you're just a few inches out of level, then put down some stacking leveler blocks (legos) or some Anderson Levelers if they're in your budget. Pull forward onto the blocks or levelers and watch the ball & bubble on the nose of your trailer. Stop about an inch or so past "perfect" level, because it will settle backwards when you put the truck in park and put on the brake. Once you're parked, look at your bubble again and verify that you're as level as you want to be (side-to-side).
Then chock your wheels real well with something like Bal X-Chocks and then unhitch. Once you're unhitched and you pull your truck forward, use your tongue jack to raise or lower the nose to level from front-to-back.
That's the easy way, "if" you only need to level a few inches from side-to-side (which kind of never happens).
If you're more out of level than that, do everything the same, except in addition to using the legos or Anderson levelers, use a shovel to dig holes in front of the uphill tires. As you pull forward, your uphill side will fall into the holes and the downhill side will rise up onto the blocks.
Make sure you fill your holes in when you leave camp.
