Parking on area with dirt/grass stability
Hello, all. I am new to this whole trailer thing, and I have a travel trailer I have on grass/dirt area. Yesterday when we leveled it it was level, but this morning it seemed to become out of level. ...
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Yeah, any non-concrete surface, but especially grass/dirt is going to settle just a hair when you put a load on it. And sometimes that will result in slight out-of-level and/or bouncy feeling a day or so after you "land."
I carry 4 or 5 12 inch long pieces of 2x12 pressure treated lumber to place under the stabilizers and tongue jack whenever I'm on dirt, grass, gravel, or even asphalt, as all of them are prone to that settling and some of them can actually be quite soft. The square foot of bearing surface helps a lot, both in reducing the need to monkey with the stabilizers and the risk of poking a hole in asphalt pads. There are campgrounds which have in the rules a stipulation that you much use something of that sort.
I carry 4 or 5 12 inch long pieces of 2x12 pressure treated lumber to place under the stabilizers and tongue jack whenever I'm on dirt, grass, gravel, or even asphalt, as all of them are prone to that settling and some of them can actually be quite soft. The square foot of bearing surface helps a lot, both in reducing the need to monkey with the stabilizers and the risk of poking a hole in asphalt pads. There are campgrounds which have in the rules a stipulation that you much use something of that sort.
