hydro or electric leveling

SUMRX4 wrote:
So wife and I just returned from the show in Hershey and are no closer to knowing the "one" than before we left. :M
If anything I now have more questions.
Those of you that have possibly owned a unit with both hydraulic and electric leveling jacks, which do you prefer and why? I realize hydro is faster but I'm not concerned with speed. If more concerned with ease of use, reliability, maintenance (if any) and bypass ability should something fail.

All your lightweight rigs are going to have electric levelers. My KZ has 4-pt and I love it. The only reason I think it's slow, has more to do with the sluggishness of the controller as opposed to the motors being particularly slow. Personally, I'd trade that off than having to deal with a nasty hydraulic leak. I had plenty of dealing with hydros in 40+ years of farming and don't really want to deal with it again. As for "strength", the 4 jacks on my KZ will easily lift it off the ground. 2 are plenty to lift one side, and this happens whenever we're on unlevel ground, like parked in the street in front of my house. Curb side tires are 1-2" off the ground when I'm level due to the road crown and the gutter. I'd have =zero= issues in jacking my rig to change a tire using the leveling jacks.

Lyle