Hydraulic Stabilizers / Driveway damage
While visiting my son next week, we plan to park our 18000 Lbs motorhome in his driveway. We also plan to use it while we are there, which means I would deploy the hydraulic stabilizers and 3 slideou...
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If the driveway is strong enough to hold the motorhome when it has 4 points of contact(4 tires) it should be strong enough to hold it when there are 8 points of contact (4 tires and 4 jacks). If you're not lifting the wheels off the ground you are essentially spreading the weight across a larger cross section of the drive.
We've parked both our 2001 Adventurer and our 2013 Adventurer in our drive for over 12 years without damaging the concrete. If you have some concerns you can also enlarge the contact as previously mentioned by placing pads under the jacks. The pads will have to have considerably more surface area than the bottom of the levelers to appreciably spread the load. The reason parks with asphalt pads require pads under the jacks is that the asphalt softens in hot weather allowing the jacks to sink. Concrete doesn't care if it's -20 or 120 it doesn't soften and has the same strength
We've parked both our 2001 Adventurer and our 2013 Adventurer in our drive for over 12 years without damaging the concrete. If you have some concerns you can also enlarge the contact as previously mentioned by placing pads under the jacks. The pads will have to have considerably more surface area than the bottom of the levelers to appreciably spread the load. The reason parks with asphalt pads require pads under the jacks is that the asphalt softens in hot weather allowing the jacks to sink. Concrete doesn't care if it's -20 or 120 it doesn't soften and has the same strength
