Chocks or lack of ??

Ever since the trailer started to roll with her inside,my wife chocks the wheels!

I've also seen campers without chocks. Also once a 5er (right beside us), when unhitiching, slid down hill and slammed into the bed of the truck. Bent the sides pretty bad. The U-shaped tail gate he had attached stopped the camper from sliding on down into the trees behind it. He did not chock. So simple.

Our PUP, one time, I set up camp on a slight hill, but it rained and everything was wet. No chocks. Although all the stablizer supports were down, the entire camper started sliding! YIKES... It slid about 3 feet and stopped. Luckly, I did not have the awning out, or it would have ripped it from the PUP. That's when I started using chocks, even on level ground.

Yea, chocks are so simple, even a log of firewood is better than nothing, yet so many do not do it.

I also chock at home in my driveway. Winds are pretty strong where I live, but the camper has never moved. I attribute that to the chocks.

Put wheel chocks down before unhitching, then x-chocks go on once tires cool down. I also put 2x8x12 under each landing gear so they don't sink. Only takes a few minutes to save thousands of dollars in repairs and lots of embarrassment. Travel on.

edsland wrote:
Chocks both sides 1 board under jack then a cold beer! :)

Same here. Except a Coke Zero. :)

I use the wheel chocks that clamp between the wheels with a wrench. Nearly lost a small TT many, many years ago when I unhitched and didn't have chocks. I had to grab the hitch and hold on to keep it from rolling over a cliff while my DW grabbed some rocks to chock the tires.

My wife usually puts a couple chocks in while I line up the landing gear blocks.

I may spend too much time getting level, checking everything before unhooking etc., but I sure see a lot of people in too big of a hurry.

I know weekenders time is limited, but you sure see many things done quickly, when the crowd starts rolling in.

I had a young couple come in next to me last week. The girl jumped out of the truck while the guy was trying to back the FW in. He was still going ahead and back while she crawled inside putting both slides out.

He put some chocks down after unhooking, didn't use the rear jacks. She threw out a rug by the step and done. Good neighbors though.

Jerry

A number of years ago while Working on the road in southwestern NY, I was camped in a small mom&pop park. During the week I'm early to bed/early to rise and about 8:30 pm I was putting away the evening's dishes and getting the coffee pot ready for the morning brew when a new neighbor, an older couple, with a TT pulled into the site next to me and began to set-up. Thinking nothing of it, I turned in at 9 and went to sleep. I'm a hard sleeper. Sometime during the night, I was semi-awakened by what sounded like a blood curdling scream and what seemed like a thud. Thinking I was dreaming, I went back to sleep without further investigation. I rose with the alarm and made coffee, poured a cup, and headed outside to watch the sunrise. Next door there was a truck at the front of the site, but no trailer. After further observation, I saw a 22'-23' TT that had slid completely off the camping pad and came to rest against a tree about 15' behind the pad in a wooded area. Both the electrical plug and the water hose were extricated from their moorings.

Shortly after sunrise an elderly gentleman exited the wayward camper, walked up the slight embankment of the RV pad, bade me a good morning and apologized for the ruckus earlier that morning. Said, he'd been camping in that site, at that campground for the last seven years and he never needed chocks. Said momma had arose earlier that morning to visit the potty and while she was there, the TT decided to, um... relocate. Said he was heading into Walmart later that day to buy some chocks and a new water hose. A nice old guy, but I sure felt sorry for the wife. She must have been absolutely petrified while sitting on the throne. Chock those tires!

Chocks both sides 1 board under jack then a cold beer! :)

I always chock at least both sides of one tire minimum. Then, as long as I can, I will do the same on the opposite side.

I use them on both tires of my little camper unless I have my BAL leveler on one of them. Then I only use chocks on the one side, obviously. Since I have four of them, I put one in the front and back of each tire.